Voting Rights Roundup: Pennsylvania GOP advances voting restrictions designed to bypass governor

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● Pennsylvania: State House Republicans have passed a constitutional amendment out of committee and onto the full floor that would adopt several new voting restrictions. The amendment …

Voting Rights Roundup: Redistricting heats up as four states pass new maps for House and legislature

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Redistricting: The decade’s long-delayed redistricting process finally got into swing last week, as several states adopted final maps for both Congress and their legislatures, while …

Voting Rights Roundup: Alaska court upholds new top-four primary and ranked-choice general election

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● Alaska: A state trial court has upheld the constitutionality of Alaska’s new law that created a “top-four” primary followed by a general election using ranked-choice …

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: 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 …