Rhode Island is the only “deep blue” state in the country with the kind of strict voter ID law that has disproportionately kept Black, Latino and Native American voters from casting ballots in a ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — With only a week until Election Day, state election officials made an important change that could help some Rhode Islanders cast their ballots. Monday afternoon, the Rhode ...

Recently, Republican governors and legislators, emboldened by the 2010 election results, have been enacting or strengthening requirements for voting, most notably laws that demand photo identification ...

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced that he signed a voter ID bill into law and touted the support of "representatives of [the] state's minority communities"... Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee ...

The Rhode Island Division of Motor Vehicles will have limited Saturday hours for residents who want to get a Real ID driver's license or a Real ID identification card. The federal government has ...

At a Senate hearing on voting rights last fall, Democrat Dick Durbin pointed out that voter ID laws were nothing more than a coordinated Republican effort to block poor and minority voters from the ...