Nearly 100,000 North Carolina voters will be required to take an additional step to verify their identity or risk being disenfranchised under a plan approved by the GOP-controlled state board of elections.
Earlier this month, Virginia became the tenth state to join AVID, but it lacks anything close to the sophistication of the ERIC.
Here are the most important new voting laws that will shape access to the ballot in 2026 and beyond.
Making false claims about illegal voting by noncitizens, President Donald Trump ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target the “core of the Democrat Power Center.”
Now that the GOP controls the board, they don’t seem to mind colluding with D.C. Republicans to change election laws.
A federal judge halted provisions in President Donald Trump’s anti-voting executive order issued earlier this year, saying that the 19 states challenging the order have shown a “substantial risk” that it would disenfranchise eligible voters.
Voting rights advocates are worried all the work federal agencies did to promote voter registration will be lost under the Trump administration.
The GOP proof of citizenship bill that passed the House remains stuck in the Senate. And now Texas — often a testing ground for right-wing legislation — is the latest to reject a state-level version of the bill.
An anti-voting lawsuit is demanding full access to Utah’s voter registration list, including records that are private and protected under state law.
Should SCOTUS rule against Mississippi’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline, it could potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.