The pandemic made the 2020 presidential election look far different from previous elections: a record number of voters cast their ballots by mail and before Election Day, and the share of voters going to a polling place on Election Day dropped to its lowest point in...
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The Markup: Election Legislation Update for Monday, June 17 2024
We are tracking 1,774 voting and election bills so far this session across 44 states and D.C., with 308 bills that restrict voter access or election administration and 885 bills that improve voter access or election administration.
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, June 3 2024
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, May 6, 2024
We are tracking 1,734 election bills so far this session across 44 states and D.C., with 303 bills that restrict voter access or election administration and 868 bills that improve voter access or election administration.
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, April 29, 2024
We are tracking 1,729 election bills so far this session across 44 states and D.C., with 303 bills that restrict voter access or election administration and 865 bills that improve voter access or election administration.
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, April 22, 2024
We are tracking 1,722 election bills so far this session across 44 states and D.C., with 303 bills that restrict voter access or election administration and 861 bills that improve voter access or election administration.
The Truth about False Claims of Noncitizen Voting
Although there is no evidence that the current systems are not working, or that noncitizen voting is a problem, some states are currently considering – and adopting – new laws that go too far, risking purges of U.S. citizens from their voter registration lists.
Ballot Hand Counts Lead to Inaccuracy
In recent years, a troubling trend in voting policy has emerged: efforts by state legislators to either ban the use of electronic tabulators or impose unworkable requirements on their operation, effectively requiring ballots to be counted by hand.
How State Laws Complicate the Right to Vote While Incarcerated
In this month’s Hot Policy Take, we take a look at the current landscape of voting access for eligible incarcerated citizens, how states are addressing these significant barriers, and what lies ahead in this often overlooked policy issue.
The Merits – and the Rise – of Vote Centers
In this month’s Hot Policy Take, we take a look at how states are shifting the role that vote centers play – or don’t play – in our local elections. While much less prevalent than changes to options like drop boxes or mail voting, since the 2020 election, nearly 100 bills concerning vote centers have been introduced in states around the country.