Casting a vote at your local polling place helps elect candidates who can enact environmental policies while in office. But is voting enough to bring change?

Despite the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, Native American activists have had to repeatedly take their fight for voting rights to Congress.

From battles to expand the franchise to the mysteries of turnout, voting is one of the most important things to understand about US politics.

As more Black men gained the right to vote in New York, the state began to change its laws to reduce their power or disenfranchise them completely.

According to some political scientists, it's more about group identity than personal interests.

Formerly incarcerated people comprise the largest group of disenfranchised American voters. The American Prison Newspapers collection offers fresh insight into the issue.

The passing of the Voting Rights Act in August 1965 prohibited the use of Jim Crow laws and discriminatory tests to disenfranchise Black voters.

In 1842, an attempt to enfranchise all men in Rhode Island resulted in two governors, two constitutions and what we now know as the Dorr Rebellion.

The voters one scholar studied didn't necessarily think they would benefit materially from being on the winning side. But turnout was over 90 percent.

Election days used to be raucous affairs, with individual votes sometimes cast orally for all to hear.