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May 2022 Voting Laws Roundup

For help in voting visit our Voting Resources page. As of May 26, 2022 lawmakers in 27 states have proposed at least 148 election interference bills with six states already passing nine voting laws that threaten to undermine voters’ confidence in the security of elections. Many have already become law. This year, state lawmakers, who spent 2021 passing laws that made it harder to vote, have focused more intently on election interference, passing nine laws that could lead to tampering with how elections are run and how results are determined.…

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Racial Voting Rights Voting 

The racist history of voter suppression laws

According to the Brennan Center, half of the states with the highest Latino population growth passed voter suppression laws in 2016. Five years later, Texas has become the latest state to sign into law extensive restrictions that limit how and when voters can cast their ballot. By Julissa Arce, Activist, Writer, and Producer Signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott last week, SB1 bans 24-hour voting, eliminates drive-through voting, establishes new vote-by-mail ID mandates, makes it a felony for public officials to broadly send mail-in ballots, gives partisan poll-watchers more power,…

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Brennan Center for Justice Voting 

Voting Laws Roundup: October 2021

By: The Brennan Center for Justice In an unprecedented year so far for voting legislation, 19 states have enacted 33 laws that will make it harder for Americans to vote. The 2020 federal election drew the highest United States’ voter  turnout in more than a century, breaking records despite the Covid-19 pandemic and efforts to undermine the election process with the Big Lie of a stolen election. In a backlash to this historic voter participation, many state lawmakers have proposed and enacted legislation to make it harder for Americans to…

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Voting Rights Act of 1965 Voting 

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 et seq.) prohibits the states and their political subdivisions from imposing voting qualifications or prerequisites to voting, or standards, practices, or procedures that deny or curtail the right of a U.S. citizen to vote because of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. A product of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the Voting Rights Act has proven to be an effective, but controversial, piece of legislation. It is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of…

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Ten things to know about voting Voting 

Ten things to know about voting

An election checklist for voters before and as they vote Study the issues and candidates using nonpartisan resources: Make use of fact check organizations who seek to offset inaccurate, misleading, or false claims by politicians and partisan political groups. The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, is a good source for election information. Know your rights and responsibilities before heading out to the polls: To vote in many states, voters must provide a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or government document that shows the name…

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2020 Presidential Election Final Map Voting 

Biden fairly and legally won the 2020 Presidential Election

While Voter.org is impartial we feel ethically obligated to address baseless claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. This page is updated as new facts emerge. As of September 9, 2022, twenty-two months after the election, no evidence has emerged that the 2020 Presidential Election had widespread election fraud that would have changed the result. TWENTY-TWO MONTHS AND COUNTING! And the rhetoric has lead to thousands of threats of violence against election workers and government officials. The former president and his GOP allies filed 63 lawsuits contesting election processes,…

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