Voting Rights Roundup: New Pennsylvania maps represent major break with past GOP gerrymanders

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break for the holidays but will return the week of Jan. 8.

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● Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania’s bipartisan legislative …

Voting Rights Roundup: New York Democrats pass law to ban gerrymandering at county government level

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● New York: Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a law that aims to ban gerrymandering in elections for county legislatures across the state. The new law requires that mapmakers follow …

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: 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, …