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  2. Electronic Registration Information Center - Wikipedia

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    ERIC member states and withdrawn states as of July 2024 [5]. The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States whose goal is to improve electoral integrity by helping states improve the accuracy of voter rolls, increase access to voter registration, reduce election costs, and increase efficiencies in elections.

  3. List of jurisdictions subject to the special provisions of ...

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    The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.

  4. State Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia

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    Since 2013, at least 29 states have passed 94 restrictive voting laws, including stricter voter ID requirements, reductions in early voting periods, and restrictions on mail-in voting. [11] In 2023 alone, more than 322 restrictive voting bills were introduced in 45 states. [ 12 ]

  5. Brennan Center for Justice releases a look ahead for 2022, an effort that builds on voting rights legislation in 2021.

  6. States move to shore up voting rights protections after ...

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    The biggest blow to the federal law in the view of voting rights advocates was a 2013 Supreme Court ruling in an Alabama case that stripped the government of a potent tool to stop voting bias by ...

  7. Democrats propose voting rights bill to counter Georgia's ...

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    Rep. Jim Clyburn and other Democrats reintroduced legislation to make it easier to cast ballots in the wake of states adopting restrictive laws

  8. For the People Act - Wikipedia

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    Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks on the Act from inside the Capitol Building. The Freedom to Vote Act (formerly known as the For the People Act), [1] introduced as H.R. 1, [2] is a bill in the United States Congress [3] intended to expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to reduce the influence of money in politics, ban partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal ...

  9. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1976 was the first bill to enshrine the constitutional right to vote in federal elections into law for U.S. citizens living overseas. This bill also established uniform absentee voting procedures for U.S. citizens living overseas in federal elections.