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Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court guts the last critical protections of the Voting Rights Act

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● Supreme Court: On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to strike a historic blow against the Voting Rights Act in overturning a 9th Circuit …

Sat Jul 3, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: New York Democrats advance bill to ban gerrymandering by county governments

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● New York: Democratic legislators have passed a bill that would apply nonpartisan redistricting criteria to local governments in 23 counties that have their own county charters, opening …

Sat Jun 12, 2021

Voting Rights Roundup: New Hampshire GOP advances two-tier voting system to thwart federal reforms

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● New Hampshire: New Hampshire Republicans have approved an amendment to a bill along party lines in a state House committee that could pave the way for the creation of two separate …

Sat May 22, 2021