To Protect Democracy in Red States, Look To Underutilized Tools
Many of the states that make it hardest to vote are home to the legislatures that are the least likely to make improvements.

Many of the states that make it hardest to vote are home to the legislatures that are the least likely to make improvements.
In Arizona, ballot collection represents the perfect storm of colliding issues: the Republican Party’s sharp reversal on mail-in voting, propaganda movies about drop boxes and discrimination against the state’s Latino population.
To undermine federal voting laws, conservatives argue that private individuals or organizations cannot bring lawsuits under them. If courts embrace this theory, the power of voting protections would be greatly diminished.
Throughout March, lawsuits seeking to restrict or expand access to voting will carry on in courtrooms across 31 states.
In many states, Republicans are restricting ballot measures in response to efforts that have enacted policies — like codifying abortion rights and expanding public benefits — that Republicans don’t support.
Democracy Docket has tracked a wave of laws changing how election law is enforced. While supporters claim they’re necessary to increase the security of our elections, in reality they could harm voters.
The Mississippi House approved a bill that would create a new, unelected court system in the state capital of Jackson. The proposal is just the tip of the iceberg in a state that continues to undermine minority representation.
In 2016, the Arizona Legislature passed a ban on ballot collection that was aimed at decreasing electoral participation by minorities, especially among the state’s large Latino community.
A national survey conducted by RUN (Represent Us Now) AAPI found that campaigns did not reach 68% of young Asian Americans leading up to the 2022 midterms.
The North Carolina Supreme Court’s new Republican majority agreed to rehear two recent decisions. The move poses direct harms for North Carolinians and could reverberate across the country.
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