Voting Rights Roundup: Louisiana GOP fails to override Democratic vetoes of voting restriction bills

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of July 31 but will return the following week.

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● Louisiana: Louisiana Republicans have narrowly failed to …

Voting Rights Roundup: Texas GOP unveils new voting restriction bills after Dems blocked last one

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● Texas: Texas Republicans have returned for a special legislative session and unveiled their proposed new voting restriction bills, which you can find here for the state Senate and House, …

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 …

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 …