Tennessee was a crucial battleground in the early civil rights movement, influencing the late John Lewis' fight against Jim ...

Popular Gov. Bill Haslam (R) is term-limited. Going into this election, Tennessee had 2 Democratic representatives and 7 Republican representatives. Here’s how each district leans politically ...

The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit against Fayette County, alleging its electoral map is racially discriminatory.

It said "ex-prisoners excluded from participation in our democracy represent 9.3% of Tennessee's voting age population," and that the state "also has the country's highest rate of ...

In what seems like an annual exercise, a bill has been filed in the Tennessee legislature by state Sen.

Tennessee's top election office has sent letters to more than 14,000 registered voters asking them to prove their citizenship, a move that alarmed voting rights advocates as possible intimidation.

For years, Tennessee rejected voter registration forms if the applicant marked that they had been convicted of a felony and did not provide additional documentation proving they had their voting ...

Several months after Tennessee’s elections office made a change that has almost entirely shut down voting rights restoration in the state, officials were quietly still debating whether people who hadn ...