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...
Election 2020
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 Lasting Impacts of the 2020 Election: Voting Early In Person and Casting Mail Ballots
As we head into October, the 2022 general elections are officially upon us. Nearly every state in the country has changed its election law in some way since 2018, with many of these changes coming after – and sometimes in response to – the 2020 election and the many...
Early Voting Gains Ground Heading into the 2022 Primaries
In recent years, we’ve witnessed an onslaught of election-related legislation that is pulling the nation in two directions. On the one hand, many states have taken steps to erode participation in our democracy, creating hurdles to casting a ballot and interfering with...
Protecting Against Polling Place Consolidation and Poll Worker Shortages
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, we have seen a variety of election related disasters during the primary elections – from massive polling place closures resulting in long lines to poll worker shortages and absentee ballots not arriving on time. As we approach the final two months before the presidential general election, election officials across the country are frantically scrambling to finalize their in-person polling locations.
Polling Place Consolidation: Negative Impacts on Turnout and Equity
As states and localities grapple with how to run elections during the COVID-19 pandemic, increased access to absentee voting has emerged as an essential piece of the puzzle. In primaries across the country states have rapidly expanded access to absentee voting and have seen record numbers of absentee ballots cast.
Protecting Public Health in the 2020 Elections
Report Summary COVID-19 has affected the way we live and work—and inevitably, it will affect the way we vote this November as well. The Union of Concerned Scientists, the UCLA Voting Rights Project and the Voting Rights Lab will be co-releasing a report from...
Recommendations for Expanding Vote by Mail During a Pandemic
Executive Summary Our election system is unprepared for the current pandemic. The only way to ensure the continued functioning of our democracy and the safety of our citizens is for every state to provide every American with access to a mail ballot. Yet in order for...