Nick Lima, the registrar and director of elections for the city of Cranston, R.I., values the chance in his work to make lasting change, whether it’s getting a bill passed or giving voters their voice in choosing their elective leaders.

Hot legislative topics in elections this year include requiring citizenship verification when registering to vote, speeding up election results, filling vacancies with special elections and requiring voter ID.

So far in this year’s legislative sessions, three states have introduced state voting rights acts. State VRAs are modeled after the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlaws race-based denial of the right to vote and protects the...

Nowhere in the nation is it permissible for noncitizens to vote in federal elections after the passage of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act in 1996. Still, legislation to clarify that noncitizens can’t vote in...

Brian McKenzie, the county clerk in Davis County, Utah, never really planned to be an election administrator, but he takes pride in helping to make voting processes better for citizens and for the state.

Since the November election, the Minnesota Legislature has faced ongoing uncertainty about which party controls its chambers in the 2025 session. There have been at least three shifts in the House and Senate, and now a Jan. 28 special election...