Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a ...

The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote ...

Prisons across the United States run on incarcerated labor. People behind bars cook food, sew clothes, clean facilities, manufacture goods, and even work in dangerous industries like agriculture and ...

As millions tuned in to watch the Super Bowl in New Orleans this month, outside the Superdome in the central French Quarter, ...

Diana Teran worked for years to root out misconduct in the LA Sheriff’s Department, but now she faces charges from the state ...

Who are the local and state officials responsible for counting, canvassing, and certifying elections? On this page, Bolts maps out each state’s system. It lays out who is responsible for the different ...

This page compiles, state-by-state, the local offices that administer elections at the state, county, and municipal level. It lays out who oversees the preparation and conduct of the election, from ...

T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she’d moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then ...

Florida Republicans spent weeks squabbling over rival immigration bills. Their conflict wasn’t over significant policy differences: They agreed on diverting hundreds of millions in state funds toward ...

After two Connecticut businesses were found to have played a large role in U.S. executions in the past five years, lawmakers are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for state companies to ...

There are nearly 500 elections for prosecutor and sheriff scheduled in 2023. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections. States that are not listed on this page have no regularly-scheduled ...