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WASHINGTON -- After Uvalde, after Buffalo, after Parkland and Newtown and El Paso and hundreds of other mass shootings over the past two decades, thousands of protesters rallied against gun [...]

Byline: Michael Wines A brutal battle over drawing district boundaries in the House of Representatives has left the two major political parties roughly at parity. But no one is celebrating. [...]

A brutal battle over drawing district boundaries in the House of Representatives has left the two major political parties roughly at parity. But no one is celebrating. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

A decision by the Florida Supreme Court means the November elections there will most likely be based on legislative maps that a lower court said illegally diluted the power of [...]

The coronavirus pandemic, hurricanes and political attitudes might have contributed to an undercount in six states, mostly in the South. The census likely overcounted in eight others. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

A lower court had declared the map an unconstitutional gerrymander. The ruling could cost Democrats a seat in Congress. WASHINGTON -- The Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the state [...]

The appeals court said a lower court order blocking parts of the law had been issued too close to the state's primary elections this summer. A federal appeals court cleared [...]

The revelation of a Supreme Court draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade has caused many Americans to express doubts about whether the justices are guided by the law [...]

The most contentious census in memory will also be the slowest to release detailed statistics for businesses and governments to use. Blame it (partly) on the pandemic. WASHINGTON -- Two [...]

The Republican-drawn map intentionally split strongholds of Democratic and Black voters, a judge ruled. The State Supreme Court will review the decision. WASHINGTON -- A state court in Kansas on [...]

The court had approved state maps drawn by the Democratic governor, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck down that decision, citing the federal Voting Rights Act. The conservative majority on [...]

Robert L. Santos, a career statistician, heads an agency in recovery from a tumultuous 2020 census. In an interview, he talks about making the 2030 count better. The new director [...]

Byline: Michael Wines Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms went online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the [...]

Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms went online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the merely curious. WASHINGTON [...]

In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a map drawn by his fellow Republicans in the Legislature. In Ohio, Republicans closed in on a G.O.P.-friendly map for the midterm elections. With [...]

Years ago, voters created a commission to make political maps fairer. Now the State Supreme Court is blocking maps drawn by the Republican-led commission, saying nothing has changed. A bipartisan [...]

Byline: Michael Wines Some experts are arguing that it's time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count. WASHINGTON [...]

Some experts are arguing that it's time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count. WASHINGTON -- Beyond the [...]

The Census Bureau said that the overall population total was accurate but that counts of minorities were skewed. Advocacy groups threatened to go to court. WASHINGTON -- Saddled with daunting [...]

The map appears to split the state's 14 congressional districts roughly equally between Republicans and Democrats, with two seats seen as tossups. WASHINGTON -- A North Carolina court rejected a [...]

Byline: Michael Wines Tennessee was long known for a brand of moderate Southern politics. Nashville, a blue island in a red state, is finding that the old rules no longer [...]

Tennessee was long known for a brand of moderate Southern politics. Nashville, a blue island in a red state, is finding that the old rules no longer apply. NASHVILLE -- [...]

The State Supreme Court said maps of the state's 14 House districts and state legislative districts violated guarantees of free elections, speech and assembly. The North Carolina Supreme Court on [...]

Byline: Michael Wines A fight over who is fit to hear a redistricting case highlights what experts say is the growing influence of ideology and money over state supreme courts [...]

A fight over who is fit to hear a redistricting case highlights what experts say is the growing influence of ideology and money over state supreme courts nationwide. It is [...]

While a lawsuit is being resolved, the university cannot bar professors from offering expert testimony in lawsuits against the state, the federal judge ruled. WASHINGTON -- A federal judge handed [...]

Republicans in three states have proposed strike forces against election crimes even though fraud cases remain minuscule. WASHINGTON -- Reprising the rigged-election belief that has become a mantra among their [...]

Byline: Richard Fausset and Michael Wines A sweeping 2021 law drew a legal complaint from the Justice Department. Legislators in the state are considering several new measures focused on ballot [...]

Newly released documents show that top career officials at the Census Bureau had drafted a list of complaints about political interference in the 2020 count. WASHINGTON -- A newly disclosed [...]

A sweeping 2021 law drew a legal complaint from the Justice Department. Legislators in the state are considering several new measures focused on ballot access and fraud investigations. ATLANTA -- [...]

The ruling set up a final battle over the maps in the state Supreme Court, where Democrats hold a slim edge. WASHINGTON -- A North Carolina state court on Tuesday [...]

The organization that conducted the review of the presidential vote in Arizona's largest county said it was insolvent and had laid off its employees. For a company that has had [...]

Persuading judges to undo skewed political maps was never easy. A shifting judicial landscape is making it harder. Voting-rights advocates are in a North Carolina state court in Raleigh this [...]

Facing a storm of protest, the university said three professors could testify as expert witnesses in a voting-rights lawsuit against the state. Acceding to a storm of protest, the University [...]

After the University of Florida blocked testimony in a voting rights lawsuit against the state, critics made accusations of political meddling. The governor denied the claims. A decision by the [...]

After being hired as expert witnesses for groups opposing a restrictive voting law, three University of Florida academics were told they could not participate in the lawsuit against the state. [...]

An analysis found that a hand recount of votes by Republican investigators missed thousands of ballots, and possibly many more. The circuslike review of the 2020 vote commissioned by Arizona [...]

The criticized review showed much the same results as in November, with 99 more Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump ones. PHOENIX -- After months of delays and blistering criticism, [...]

Byline: Michael Wines The inquiry into the 2020 vote, derided as a badly flawed partisan exercise, has already spawned imitators in other states. WASHINGTON - Republicans in the Arizona Senate [...]

The much criticized review showed much the same results as in November, with 99 more Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump ones. PHOENIX -- After months of delays and blistering [...]

The inquiry into the 2020 vote, derided as a badly flawed partisan exercise, has already spawned imitators in other states. WASHINGTON -- Republicans in the Arizona Senate are expected on [...]

Threatened by extremists and under fire by politicians, election workers now have their own legal defense network. It's a perk they never expected to need. WASHINGTON -- It is perhaps [...]

The court cited ''persuasive evidence'' that the state legislature had rushed the law to passage at least in part to make it harder for Black voters to cast ballots. A [...]

A pandemic, hurricanes and politics seemed a recipe for an inaccurate count. But a preliminary check found no clear lapses. WASHINGTON -- The problem-plagued 2020 census won a cautious vote [...]

From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders. With the release of the 2020 census last [...]

The chief executive of Cyber Ninjas, the company in charge of Republicans' politically expedient review of 2020 results in Maricopa County, was one of three people who were ''quite sick,'' [...]

Byline: Emily Bazelon and Michael Wines WASHINGTON - There were 10 days left in the Trump presidency. And John Abowd and Tori Velkoff had a decision to make. Six months [...]

WASHINGTON -- There were 10 days left in the Trump presidency. And John Abowd and Tori Velkoff had a decision to make. Six months earlier, in July 2020, President Donald [...]