Kendall Verhovek

"For every election, we do a run-through. We program the ballots, scan them, and test every single voting machine and every ballot." I interviewed Tonya Wichman, the elections director in Defiance County, Ohio about the long road to election day brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

This early case paved the way for decades of Section 2 litigation seeking to preserve minority voters' rights. It also demonstrates why voters must be able to go to court to challenge racially discriminatory voting policies and practices brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

510 of 512 absentee ballots were cast for the white candidate, and all by white voters. That prompted a coalition of Black voters to go to court. A judge found that the absentee voting process deprived Black voters of their right to vote under the VRA and the Constitution.

Voters have challenged racial discrimination in voting in 100s of cases under the Voting Rights Act. That was always intended. Yet in 2021, Justice Gorsuch called this right an "open question." So I went back to the beginning to one of these 1st cases... brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyeight

NEWS - ABC is eliminating the political and data-driven news site 538, which had about 15 employees This is a sad day!

Welcome to Chapel Hill, Bill Belichick! The eight-time Super Bowl Champion has officially been named our next @UNCFootball Head Coach. #GoHeels x #ChapelBill

"We are so united in grief and recovery." How western North Carolina is grappling with voting after a hurricane, as told by election officials and voters from ground zero: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

I spoke with some voters in Ohio about why they are supporting Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would put the state's redistricting process in the hands of citizens rather than politicians. Here's what they said: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

Michigan is the home of Motown, the Great Lakes, and coveted battleground voters in election season. It’s also home to some key pro-democracy reforms in recent years: bit.ly/4fSQD0m

And to one of the most professional journalists in the business @rachelvscott

@wsteaks @ABC @GStephanopoulos @POTUS @JoeBiden hi

.@ABC News @GStephanopoulos has exclusive, first television interview with @POTUS @JoeBiden since the debate

"[J]ust in time for Independence Day, the Supreme Court brings us closer to having a king again," @mawaldman's takeaways from Trump v. U.S. brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

In Galveston County, the birthplace of Juneteenth, voters of color are challenging a county-level map that carved up the sole majority district for Black and Latino voters. “We don’t have representation,” said one plaintiff bit.ly/3z8RbOH

After a law was passed in 2021, mail ballot requests in Florida are only valid for 1 general election cycle. Any eligible voter who plans to vote by mail this year must apply by Aug. 8 for the August primary and by Oct. 24 for the general, even if you've voted by mail in the past

In the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, Chief Justice John Roberts "wrote that the once-troubling turnout gap between white and Black voters ... had largely disappeared" The @BrennanCenter's new study suggests otherwise. nytimes.com/2024/03/02/us/…

Nationwide, the turnout gap between white voters and voters of color has grown continuously since 2012. In 2020, the gap was >12 percentage points. Had voters of color voted at the same rate as white voters, 9 million more ballots would have been cast. brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

Racial discrimination in voting is not history - it persists stubbornly and acutely. The Senate just reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. We need this legislation to protect the right to vote. It's well past time to #RestoreTheVRA brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

"Sometimes the grossest discrimination can lie in treating things that are different as though they were exactly alike." LUPE v. Texas came to a close this week: brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…