The Democratic Party believes the Voting Rights Act guarantees majority-minority seats proportional to minority populations.

The race for Chapel Hill Town Council features five candidates for four available seats. There are two incumbents in the race ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in ...

After the new map, known as S.B. 8, was released in 2024, a separate group of Louisiana voters accused it of unconstitutional ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the use of race in drawing a majority-minority district to comply with the Voting ...

The Census Bureau is looking for temporary workers to carry out next year's major field test of the 2030 census in six states ...

aChanchlani Research Centre, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada bMary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, ...

The Alabama Republican Party is celebrating a string of local election wins, including a hotly contest mayoral runoff in Mobile, as a sign of the GOP’s strength in one of the nation’s most reliably ...

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding ...

A Trump appointee has been picked to be the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau, replacing a career economist in the interim job, at a time when the Republican president is calling for a new census ...

Kabir Khanna, Ph.D., is Director, Election Analytics & Technical Systems at CBS News. He analyzes elections and public opinion through survey research and data science tools. On election nights, he ...

bInterdisciplinary Centre for Black Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada cUniversity of Ottawa Research Chair on Black Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada dInterdisciplinary School of ...