https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-february-2021Since publication, the Brennan Center has published another resource listing restrictive and expansive state voting legislation by bill number. It contains our most up-to-date number of voting bills — both restrictive and expansive — in the states as of Feb. 19, 2021. You can find it here.
The 2021 legislative sessions have begun in all but three states, and state lawmakers have introduced hundreds of bills aimed at election procedures and voter access — vastly exceeding the number of voting bills introduced by roughly this time last year.
In a backlash to historic voter turnout in the 2020 general election, and grounded in a rash of baseless and racist allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, legislators have introduced well over four times the number of bills to restrict voting access as compared to roughly this time last year. Thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills this year (as compared to 35 such bills in fifteen states on February 3, 2020).
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But it’s not all bad news. There are also a large numbers of bills trying to expand voting rights. Now all we need is an informed and engaged to start hounding their representatives.
www. brennancenter _org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-case-challenging-voting-restrictions-arizona-explainedOn March 2, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a challenge to a pair of Arizona voting policies that make it harder for people to vote, especially in communities of color and Native American communities. The case, Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, is significant because it likely won’t just affect voters in the state. It could have broad implications for the fairness of our democracy across the country because of what the decision might mean for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, known as the VRA.
The Brennan Center and other groups are urging the court to enforce and preserve the VRA’s protections, which were previously scaled back by a damaging 2013 Supreme Court ruling. Now, in the midst of an expanded, nationwide voter suppression push fueled by lies about nonexistent fraud in the 2020 election, those safeguards have taken on even greater importance — and so has this lawsuit.
What is the case about? …
