In “Showdown 2022: The State of State Election Law – and the Fights Ahead,” we take a comprehensive look at where states landed on election-related policies by the end of 2021 – and forecast key issues that are already emerging in 2022 state legislative...
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, February 14
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2021 Year in Review for Voting Rights: A Look Back at Voting Legislation in the States
Much of the attention over the 2021 and in the early weeks of 2022 has been on the failure of federal legislation to secure voting rights. But, as always, much of the movement has taken place at the state level. State legislatures proposed nearly three thousand bills...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, January 24
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The Year in Review for Voting Rights: Five Achievements and Five Setbacks
2021 has been a historic year for voting rights policy. We tracked nearly 3,000 bills moving in all 50 states and D.C. this year, resulting in almost 300 new laws – both pro- and anti-voter. While voting rights advocates spent much of 2021 defending against attacks on...
DECEMBER UPDATE: A Tale of Two Democracies
The Voting Rights Lab made critical updates to its report, A Tale of Two Democracies, first released in June and updated in September, demonstrating how a wave of state legislation on voting rights and election administration is transforming our democracy, creating a...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 8
Welcome to The Markup, VRL's weekly legislative update. Welcome back to our loyal readers and hello to everyone joining us for the first time this week. Will you help get this weekly newsletter into more hands by forwarding it along? If you received this email from...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 1
Hello, and welcome to November! It’s Election Day tomorrow in many parts of the country. Will you help get this weekly newsletter into more hands by forwarding it along? If you received this email from someone else and you'd like to get these weekly updates straight...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, October 18
The Markup’s readership has grown 5x since we started these weekly updates in March. Thank you for making that possible! Will you help get this weekly newsletter into more hands by forwarding it along? If you received this email from someone else and you'd like to get...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Tuesday, October 12
We’re back with a special Tuesday edition of The Markup due to yesterday’s observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. We’re glad to be with you again. Will you help get this weekly newsletter into more hands by forwarding it along? If you received this email from someone...