voting rights

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Evenwel v. Abbot, the one person-one vote case out of Texas related to state Senate redistricting maps that conflict with the 14th amendment. The courts next term begins in October and ends June 2016. Oral arguments will take place sometime between now and then. Yakima's Voting Rights case could be

Washington election officials have determined that the state will be unable to use a federal Homeland Security database of legal immigrants to check voting eligibility. In July, Secretary of State Sam Reed requested access to data on over 100 million immigrants as a further way of reviewing the accuracy of the state’s voter registration rolls...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Mateo Arteaga has closely watched the demographics change in Yakima since he moved here in 1988. A longtime educator, Arteaga visits kindergarten classes where smiling Hispanic faces dominate the room. Hispanics now make up more than a third of Yakima's population, as farm workers travel to central Washington's fruit bowl to work in agriculture and those who have come b

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The ACLU of Washington says it plans a news conference Wednesday to announce the filing of a major voting rights lawsuit against the city of Yakima. The group declined to provide details Tuesday. The Yakima Herald-Republic previously reported that the ACLU began investigating how City Council members are elected last year, after council members refused to put an initiat