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Alabama Bill Criminalizing Assistance with Absentee Voting Dies in State Senate

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

What some call “ballot harvesting,” others consider essential help to seniors, nursing care patients and the disabled. That’s why Democracy advocates are relieved that the Alabama legislature’s HB 209 died Tuesday before reaching the Senate floor.

New MIT Voter Survey on 2022 Midterm Shows Rebounding Confidence in Process & Shifts in Methods of Voting

June 5, 2023June 5, 2023

In May, the MIT Election Data & Science Lab released its Survey of the Performance of American Elections for the 2022 midterms. A majority of both in-person and mail-in voters expressed satisfaction with the voting process, but HOW voters voted shifted again from 2020 to 2022.

North Carolina Legislators Propose Boilerplate Bills Suppressing Mail-in and Election Day Registration Voters

June 4, 2023June 4, 2023

We’re in North Carolina today awaiting action by the U.S. Supreme Court on Moore vs. Harper, the Independent State Legislature theory test case, and we just learned about a new bill shortening mail-in ballot deadlines and implementing provisional ballots for election-day registrants.

After a Long Road, Connecticut Poised to Implement Early In-Person Voting

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023

Wednesday, the Connecticut Senate passed a bill implementing 14 days of in-person early voting and the state is likely to join 46 other states with an early voting option. The bill now goes to Gov. Ned Lamont, who is expected to sign it.

Gerrymandering Cases Still Percolating in Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas, and Utah

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

Three years into the every-10-year redistricting cycle and challenges are still percolating around the country. We have short updates from Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida, Arkansas, and Utah.