States must balance complying with a civil rights law that protects the voting power of a racial minority while not discriminating against other voters.

A redistricting battle over Louisiana's congressional map has spanned years and been before the Supreme Court twice already.

Former City Councilmember Amanda Edwards announced she's running to replace U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner in Congress. She's the ...

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Manitoba’s education minister wants to bring in school board campaign fundraising and reporting rules that would hold trustee ...

While incumbent Labor Premier Roger Cook earned an emphatic victory at the state election, there were also significant double-digit swings to the Liberals and Nationals. Both Labor and the ...

Nine MLAs from all three parties at Province House have a month to create a commission to redraw Nova Scotia's electoral map in a way that will "provide effective representation" to the Acadian ...

In 1872, the Crédit Mobilier scandal implicated ... Ohio in 1896. | AP McKinley’s election as president in 1896 epitomized the growing influence of monied interests in Gilded Age America ...

Named for a state of disorder, the bitingly satirical Knights of Chaos is historically connected with the Knights of Momus, which began parading in 1872. Momus ceased parading in 1991. Muses is ...

WASHINGTON – Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court race has put the battleground state’s congressional maps back in the spotlight. The April 1 election between conservative Waukesha County ...