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...
Returning, Verifying, and Curing Mail Ballots
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, December 13
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, December 6
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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...
Three Takeaways from the 2021 Elections
This year, expanded voter access in Virginia resulted in record turnout for an off-cycle election. Both Democrats and Republicans turned out in higher numbers than in 2017, the last gubernatorial election year, and a Republican victory refutes the claim that expanded...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 15
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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...
Movement Victories: Stopping the Bad and Highlighting the Good
As we wrap up the 2021 legislative sessions in most states, let’s take stock of our movement’s victories. Voting rights advocates and organizers successfully ensured that some of the most restrictive policies failed. They also moved forward reforms across the country...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, October 18
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, October 4
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