James T. Tucker: “First generation barriers are those that limit access to registration, casting a ballot, or having that ballot counted.”

I did not support the balanced budget amendment, but, thank God, we live in a country where I can say that democracy had its will and its way. As to the reasons why I did not support it, they are precisely because it did not prohibit…

What we are really talking about here is that many of the barriers that exist are things such as the National Voter Registration Act that were originally put in place to facilitate the administration of elections, but far too often, rather…

The U.S. has a duty to nurture civilian-led nonviolent democratic change at a time when it is, surely, in short global supply.

All of us suffer and our elected government has less legitimacy each time an American Indian or Alaska Native is prevented from registering to vote or being turned away at the polls.