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: Top North Carolina court halts filing, a sign it could block GOP gerrymanders

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● North Carolina: In a major sign that it is likely to eventually block Republicans’ newly enacted congressional and legislative gerrymanders in a pair of pending cases, North …

Voting Rights Roundup: New York City may soon grant local voting rights to permanent legal residents

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● New York City, NY: With a supermajority of members sponsoring the legislation, New York’s heavily Democratic City Council could adopt a bill this month that would grant voting …

Voting Rights Roundup: Conspiracy-driven Wisconsin GOP looks to take over election administration

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of Nov. 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday but will return the following week.

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● Wisconsin: In a chilling new …

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: 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: 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: ACLU sues over Ohio GOP's new maps after governor’s startling admission

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● Ohio: The ACLU has filed a lawsuit with Ohio’s Supreme Court asking it to strike down the new legislative maps that the Republican majority on the state’s bipartisan …

Voting Rights Roundup: Democrats unveil voting and redistricting reform bill with Manchin's support

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● Congress: Senate Democrats, including pivotal moderate Joe Manchin, have introduced a major revision to the party’s sweeping voting rights and redistricting reform legislation this …

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: House Democrats pass historic bill to restore and expand Voting Rights Act

Programming Note: The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of Sept. 4 but will return the following week.

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● Congress: On Tuesday, House Democrats voted along party lines …

Voting Rights Roundup: New Jersey Supreme Court picks Dem-favored tiebreaker for House redistricting

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● New Jersey: The New Jersey Supreme Court has chosen former state Supreme Court Justice John Wallace, who’d been nominated by Democrats, as the tiebreaking member on the …

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: 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 …