View more opinion at CNN. It’s often toward the top of the progressive wish list of voting rights reforms: Make Election Day a federal holiday. A recent study from Pew Research Center revealed ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to ask the Governor General on Sunday to dissolve Parliament, marking the beginning of ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- There's a new bill in Maine designating Election Day as a state holiday. That means the general election, on even years, every two years, would be treated like other holidays in ...

Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University, staff writer at the New Yorker and author, most recently, of This America: The Case for the Nation. At the opening of Congress ...

A group of House Republicans proposed a bill last month that would make Election Day a holiday in North Carolina. House Bill 31 now has more than 50 co-sponsors from both parties — including two ...