This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a nonprofit news organization in Chicago ...

California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, four years after Governor Gavin Newsom ...

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when ...

As the midterms draw closer, President Trump and his allies on the right have increased their attacks on mail voting while ...

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 ...

Below are the candidates who filed to run for district attorney and sheriff by the state’s filing deadline for major party candidates. (This list was published as of January 2026; unaffiliated ...

The article is published in a collaboration between the Arizona Mirror and Bolts. It’s a sweltering 105 degrees on a Sunday afternoon in June when Jillian Ryan sets out to tell voters in east Mesa ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

The right-wing attack on mail voting suffered a setback in a surprising venue on Monday, when the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court, which just recently eviscerated the remains of the Voting Rights ...