Rewriting the rules: These states have passed new voting laws this year. Here's how they could affect 2024
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| "States that passed restrictive voting laws this year mark the homes of several races where candidates won by narrow majorities in 2022 that both Democrats and Republicans are watching closely in the leadup to 2024.Republicans, looking to gain more power in the House, have identified several seats in these states as pick-up opportunities, including one currently held by Texas Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who won by 11,000 votes." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "State legislators often use election misinformation and claims of election fraud to justify making voting harder, fueling a wave of restrictive voting legislation, she said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Another law grants the secretary of state oversight of Harris County's election administration, a county where Republicans alleged voter fraud in 2020." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| Anna Paulina Luna and Maria Elvira Salazar.nn | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| Anna Paulina Luna and Maria Elvira Salazar.nn | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| In Michigan, Democrats are hoping to win back one district held by GOP Rep. John James, a freshman lawmaker who won by a narrow margin of 1,600 votes last year. | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| States that passed restrictive voting laws this year mark the homes of several races where candidates won by narrow majorities in 2022 that both Democrats and Republicans are watching closely in the leadup to 2024.nnRepublicans, looking to gain more power in the House, have identified several seats in these states as pick-up opportunities, including one currently held by Texas Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who won by 11,000 votes.nn | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| In Florida, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a restrictive voting law that imposes new requirements on third-party organizations working to register voters and bans non-citizens from collecting voter registration forms, among additional provisions. | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| Also in Texas, the campaign arm for House Democrats is looking to flip the seat of Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, a Trump-backed candidate who won last year with a 10-point margin. | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| In Colorado, Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert almost lost her seat last year after businessman Adam Frisch came close to unseating her with just 550 votes separating the two candidates.nn | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| But since the 2020 election, in part from the efforts of former President Donald Trump to overturn the election results, many states reversed such legislation and rewrote election laws, according to Liz Avore, the senior policy advisor for the Voting Rights Lab, a voter advocacy organization.nn | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "I think you can draw some connections between states that are battleground states and the laws that are being passed," she said, drawing parallels between the states where former President Donald Trump sought to overturn the election results in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nevada.nn | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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50% : States that passed restrictive voting laws this year mark the homes of several races where candidates won by narrow majorities in 2022 that both Democrats and Republicans are watching closely in the leadup to 2024.Republicans, looking to gain more power in the House, have identified several seats in these states as pick-up opportunities, including one currently held by Texas Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, who won by 11,000 votes.40% : State legislators often use election misinformation and claims of election fraud to justify making voting harder, fueling a wave of restrictive voting legislation, she said.
31% : Another law grants the secretary of state oversight of Harris County's election administration, a county where Republicans alleged voter fraud in 2020.
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