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: Election wins give Virginia Republicans a chance to roll back voting rights

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● Virginia: In a major setback for voting rights, Republican Glenn Youngkin narrowly defeated former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in the race to become Virginia’s next governor, …

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: 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: Michigan GOP plots stealth voting restrictions to circumvent governor's veto

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● Michigan: Michigan Republicans have launched an effort to adopt new statutory voting restrictions via ballot initiative, but in reality, it’s an attempt by GOP lawmakers to use …

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 Dems take their case to D.C. after fleeing to block new GOP voting bill

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● Texas: For the second time this year, Democrats in the Texas state House have resorted to the highly unusual tactic of boycotting their own legislative session in order to stop …

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: 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 …

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: 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: Arizona GOP's bill strips Dem election chief's power only until her term ends

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● Arizona: Republicans have passed a bill in committees in the state Senate and House that would strip Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of the power to defend the state in …

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 …