Dear
John,
Happy New Year – I hope that this note finds you managing well at another challenging time in the pandemic.
Here at Voting Rights Lab, we're gearing up for the start of another legislative session and the opportunity it brings to advance access to the ballot and defend against attacks on our democracy.
Our team has been hard at work categorizing and summarizing new bills for the 2022 session. We wanted to make sure you knew that 2022 prefiled and carryover bills are live in our State Voting Rights Tracker.
We’re only a couple of weeks into 2022, but our team is already tracking over 1,400 voting bills. Of those, there are over 700 bills that improve voter access and election administration and about 300 bills that interfere with it. The remainder are either neutral, mixed, or unclear in their impact.
You can use the site’s new toggle feature (see below) to explore bills from 2021 or from the current session.
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The State Voting Rights Tracker is updated in near real-time, and we hope you will follow along and use it to further your work.
Finally, before I sign off – are you someone who’s always interested in knowing the latest about state election legislation? Then sign up for The Markup – our weekly insider update about voting and election legislation.
The next edition will arrive on Tuesday, January 18. (You can see this past Monday’s edition here.)
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Thank you for all that you do in the fight to protect the freedom to vote.
Megan Lewis
Executive Director
Voting Rights Lab
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