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Voting Rights & Election Law

This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote.

Additional Resources

American Local Government Elections Database

This dataset consists of about 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests that encompass races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties in the U.S. over the last three decades. It is the most comprehensive publicly available source of information on local elections across the country.

Campaign Legal Center

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonpartisan organization that advocates for every eligible voter to meaningfully participate in the democratic process.

Election Law (Oklahoma City University School of Law)

This guide will give researchers a brief overview of election law and outline print and electronic resources available in the Chickasaw Nation Law Library at Oklahoma City University School of Law. The guide will also mention freely available electronic resources.

Election Law (University of Chicago)

This guide provides websites, books, and current awareness resources on election law.

Election Law Blog

The Election Law Blog is written by Professor Richard L. Hasen, an internationally recognized expert in election law and campaign finance regulation.

Election Law Manual

A joint project of the College of William and Mary School of Law and the National Center for State Courts, the Election Law Manual provides an overview of state election law in the United States and is designed to provide assistance to state court judges who are called upon to resolve election-related cases

Election Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law)

This guide is intended as a starting point for research in the law of elections, including campaign finance, election administration, and voting rights.

Election Law Research Guide (Ohio State University)

This guide is designed to assist the faculty and students of the Moritz College of Law in researching issues in the area of election law.

Elections and Voting - Community Guides

This guide from the Federal Depository Library Program collects LibGuides from various U.S. libraries.

Elections and Voting Rights: Presidential Elections (Federal Depository Library Program)

This guide highlights federal government information and resources on presidential elections.

Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Elections Research Center fosters cutting-edge academic analysis of national and state elections to further the scholarly understanding of factors that influence voter decision-making and election outcomes. It continues a long tradition of excellence in elections-related study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Federal Election Commission Legal Resources

The Federal Election Commission makes public a variety of statutes, regulations, Commission actions, and court cases to clarify campaign finance legal requirements.

LexisNexis® U.S. Voting Laws & Legislation Center

This voting law tool is provided by the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation to provide citizens with free access to the most comprehensive collection of US voting laws, legislative developments, and news.​

Voting and Elections

This page from USAGov provides information on voting laws, voter registration, how to make informed voting choices, the presidential election process, and more.

Voting Rights and Election Law (Widener University)

This guide covers topics including the right to vote; First Amendment rights of candidates, voters, political speakers, and parties; the Voting Rights Act's and the Constitution's constraints on the drawing of district lines; and the place of money in the electoral process.

Voting Rights in the United States (Northeastern University School of Law)

This guide serves as a starting point for legal research regarding voting rights in the United States.