Voting Rights Roundup: Lawsuit against Texas GOP's anti-Latino gerrymanders faces long odds in court

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● Texas: Texas’ Republican-run legislature has given final approval to new sets of congressional and legislative gerrymanders that will lock in GOP majorities by diminishing the …

Voting Rights Roundup: Arkansas' GOP governor greenlights new House map but invites critics to sue

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● AR Redistricting: In a surprise, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced on Wednesday that he’d allow Arkansas’ new congressional map to become law without his signature, …

Voting Rights Roundup: In major about face, Manchin lays out path for compromise on election reforms

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of June 25 but will return the following week.

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● Congress: In a major development for the fate of congressional …

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas Dems stop GOP voting restrictions with walkout, but the bill may return

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● Texas: In a dramatic turn of events, Texas Republicans finalized the details of a far-reaching voting restriction bill and tried to pass it in the middle of the night over the Memorial …

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 …

Voting Rights Roundup: Mississippi's Supreme Court kills off ballot initiatives for an absurd reason

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● Mississippi: On Friday, Mississippi’s conservative-dominated state Supreme Court obliterated the state’s entire ballot initiative process by striking it down on the most …