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2020 is off to quite the start. We have encouraging pro-democracy
developments out of Virginia, which—as part of the Swing Left family—our
community helped flip blue in November. The newly Democratic-controlled
state Senate has advanced bills that would allow no-excuse absentee voting
in any election and make Election Day a holiday. In the House of
Delegates, Democratic legislators have also introduced bills that would
enable automatic and same-day voter registration.

[1]Democrats in the recently flipped Virginia House of DelegatesDemocrats
in the Virginia House of Delegates, which flipped to Democratic control in
November.

But in states where the GOP either controls all three branches of
government or both chambers of the legislature, democracy is under even
greater threat:

In Florida, legislators have ignored the will of voters who passed
Amendment 4, which sought to restore voting rights to returning citizens.
Rather than enact Amendment 4, GOP lawmakers instead passed measures that
require formerly incarcerated Floridians with felony convictions to repay
all fines and fees before regaining their right to vote. And last week,
the Florida Supreme Court ruled that those restrictions were
constitutional.

Georgia ended 2019 by purging 309,000 voters from its rolls in December.
Earlier this month, in response to a lawsuit filed by Fair Fight Action
that challenged the removal of nearly 100,000 inactive voters, a federal
judge ruled that the purging was constitutional.

In Wisconsin, the GOP is trying to remove over 200,000 people from the
voter rolls before the November elections. Conservatives are appealing to
the state supreme court in an attempt to force the Election Commission,
which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, to purge the
rolls. Democrats, arguing that the purge aims to reduce the number of
voters likely to support Democratic candidates, want an appellate court to
weigh in on the issue.

All three of these states have a history of GOP-led gerrymandering, and
we’ve seen what happens as a result of rigged maps. Unpopular laws become
the norm while popular bills and ballot amendments stagnate in committee
or become diluted by the GOP. Together, with Swing Left we’re working to
flip chambers in each of these states—as well as in [ 2020 ]Arizona, [ 2020 ]Iowa,
[ 2020 ]Michigan, [ 2020 ]Ohio, [ 2020 ]North Carolina, and [ 2020 ]Texas—to prevent another
harmful decade of GOP gerrymandering-facilitated policies.

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candidates running to flip seats and chambers in the aforementioned
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candidates in competitive races. And together, we can help build a
stronger democracy for years to come.

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