How State Legislatures Are Refining Their Efforts to Manipulate Elections Since the 2020 election, Voting Rights Lab has tracked over 6,300 pieces of election legislation, including over 600 bills and resolutions that have become law across all 50 states and D.C. We...
2022 Legislative Session
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, February 6
We are tracking 817 bills so far this session, with 177 bills that restrict voter access or election administration and 421 bills that improve voter access or election administration. The rest are neutral, mixed, or unclear in their impact.
New Year, New Laws: The Post-2020 Election Laws Taking Effect January 2023
Three hundred sixty-eight state elections laws have been enacted or adopted since the 2020 election.
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, December 19
Welcome to a special edition of The Markup. Please consider sharing this post with colleagues and friends today so that we can get this valuable information into more hands. If someone else shared this with you and you would like to get these weekly updates straight...
The State of State Election Law Since 2020
The years since the 2020 election were the most prolific for election law in recent history, with new laws impacting how people vote and how our elections are run enacted in nearly every state across the country. In the two years since the 2020 election, nearly every...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, December 12
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, December 5
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Democracy on the Ballot: The Fate of 2022 Voting-Related Ballot Initiatives
You've heard it before: democracy was on the ballot during the 2022 midterm elections. Considerable attention was directed toward races for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general given the role each may play in election administration or oversight –...
The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 21
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The Markup: Weekly Election Legislation Update for Monday, November 14
A special post-election update covering key voting-related ballot initiatives in six states.