While there are ongoing efforts to make it more difficult to vote in many Republican-controlled states, a research group found there has also been a quiet countermovement to expand access to voting across the country.
banned the use of ballot drop boxes and increased criminal penalties for previously accepted conduct by election workers.enacted a voting rights package that included expansive automatic voter registration, preregistration for 16-year-old citizens and criminal bans on voter intimidation.
“There haven’t been a lot of moderate changes. It’s very polarized, either one kind or another,” said Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel at the Fair Elections Center, a nonpartisan voting rights organization. In several states, there was bipartisan support for increased avenues for citizens to register to vote and expanded options for fixing a ballot that was submitted incomplete. Other policies, like mail voting, have become highly politicized and the subject of partisan debates. Often, the communities exercising a given voting measure can define the politics surrounding the policy more than the measure’s other merits or drawbacks.
State legislators demonstrated an ability to enact laws that would improve and hamper elections in the same session, according to a Voting Rights Lab tally. Republican-led Arkansas, for instance, passed a bevy of restrictive laws, while also enacting some that the study deemed expansive. Meanwhile, Democratic-governed New Mexico enacted a sweeping voting rights package that included some policies the research group determined will have a mixed effect.
“There are very different voting cultures in different states that make it even harder to compare,” Kanter Cohen said. “You have western states, for example, that have a long history of mail elections. And you have New England states with very small jurisdictions that have more of a history of in-person voting on Election Day, where there are so few voters in a precinct that you can count all six of them at the beginning of the presidential primary.
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