Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, has now signed eleven anti-voter bills into law so far this year. He started off with these seven new suppressive laws:

➜ House Bill 285 requires the state secretary of state’s office to create an election integrity division to perform many duties, including “conducting independent investigations into allegations of election irregularities.” 

➜ House Bill 476 restricts people from delivering more than one absentee ballot via mail unless they are sending ballots on behalf of immediate family members.

➜ Senate Bill 155 only allows individuals to assist with more than one absentee ballot if they are helping immediate family members.

➜ Senate Bill 218 requires someone assisting a voter to provide their address and relationship to the voter and reveal if they were paid to assist.

➜ Senate Bill 226 requires that an absentee ballot that is missing information and is not fixed by the voter is considered a challenged ballot that is only counted if the majority of the election board decides it should be.

➜ Senate Bill 449 defines a qualified voter or elector as “a person who has the proper qualifications provided by law to be entitled to vote and who is lawfully registered to vote.” 

➜ Senate Bill 101 bans ranked-choice voting in Louisiana elections.

Every single one of these bills was passed with an eye on adding barriers to voting, reducing ballot access, and suppressing participation in Louisiana's elections. Opponents of voting rights are trying to codify their pathway to power in state law instead of winning elections fair and square.

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As if that wasn't enough, he added these four new suppressive laws:

➜ House Bill 506 requires individuals and entities to register with the Secretary of State before conducting voter registration drives. This is another attack on 3rd party voting rights groups like ours.

➜ House Bill 581 criminalizes being a witness on more than one absentee ballot for non-immediate family members and requires witnesses to provide their mailing address (another restriction on voter registration organizations).

➜ House Bill 114 creates new procedures for maintaining active voter lists and specifies conditions under which individuals can be purged from voter rolls, making it easier for the state to kick people off the list of registered voters.

➜ Senate Bill 436 requires individuals to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote despite no proof of non-citizens participating in elections in Louisiana or elsewhere across the country.

This is all a cynical, partisan ploy to suppress the vote and stay in power. It's the same playbook we've seen repeated by opponents of voting rights in states nationwide.

State laws like this are exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act in the first place. Pitch in $5, $10, $25 or whatever you can to help protect our fundamental right to vote >>

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Since the Supreme Court gutted key provisions in the Voting Rights Act, extreme politicians have taken advantage to pass harsh laws that restrict access to the ballot box. These restrictions particularly affect disadvantaged communities and people of color. It’s our goal to bring awareness to these laws wherever they may crop up and organize voters to take action to ensure the right to vote is available to everyone in their states and communities.

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