“It takes us in the wrong direction. It’s another way to confuse voters to put additional obstacles in their way,” Common Cause Indiana executive director Julia Vaughn told The Daily Beast
In March, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen had a blunt assessment of four new voting laws in Arkansas.
in the nation during the 2020 election, advocates are concerned these policies will only make participation worse.A number of states that have passed new voting restrictions in the past year—including Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, and Indiana—have primaries this month. Their outcomes will serve as the first big test of the impact of new voting restrictions enacted following the 2020 election and former President Trump’s election hysteria.
. So far, Texas is the only state to have held a 2022 primary, which occurred on March 1. The state also had a new voting law requiring voters to provide a driver’s license number or a social security number on their absentee-ballot applications and actual ballots—and for that ID information to match what the state has on file.and how to effectively communicate them to voters.
The common concern among elections administrators and organizers in these states with new voting laws is that individuals could break the laws unintentionally. In Arkansas, for instance, one of the four new laws bans voters from standing within 100 feet of a polling place unless they’re actively waiting to vote. Hollingsworth questioned what could happen to individuals who are merely striking up small talk on their way out—or bump into someone they know while passing by.
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