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August 24, 2021

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Shelby County v. Holder significantly undermined the Voting Rights Act (VRA), leaving many open to the same harmful practices that warranted its existence. Discriminatory policies have not only resurfaced in areas formerly covered by the VRA’s preclearance requirement, but also have proliferated nationwide. Since the Shelby ruling, States have introduced more than 400 state bills and enacted 30 laws that erect barriers to the ballot box for millions of Americans. State and local officials brazenly have imposed restrictive voting requirements, altered district boundaries, and shifted polling location, directly harming working families whose capacity to vote is already limited.

The John Lewis VRAA would address these disenfranchisement strategies, as well as others certain to develop. It will restore the essential portion of the VRA that blocks discriminatory voting policies before they go into effect, putting a transparent process in place for protecting everyone’s freedom to vote. It achieves this goal by establishing nationwide preclearance standards and by creating a new coverage formula for detecting repeated instances of voting rights violations in the previous 25 years.

This is Good for working people.

Vote result:
Passed

YEAs: 219 | NAYs: 212
Legislator Sort descending State District Party Vote
Rep. Val Demings FL 10 Democrat Yes
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier CA 10 Democrat Yes
Rep. Scott DesJarlais TN 4 Republican No
Rep. Ted Deutch FL 22 Democrat Yes
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart FL 26 Republican No
Rep. Debbie Dingell MI 6 Democrat Yes
Rep. Lloyd Doggett TX 37 Democrat Yes
Rep. Byron Donalds FL 19 Republican No
Rep. Mike Doyle PA 18 Democrat Yes
Rep. Jeffrey Duncan SC 3 Republican No
Rep. Neal Dunn FL 2 Republican No
Rep. Jake Ellzey TX 6 Republican No
Rep. Tom Emmer MN 6 Republican No
Rep. Veronica Escobar TX 16 Democrat Yes
Rep. Anna G. Eshoo CA 16 Democrat Yes
Rep. Adriano Espaillat NY 13 Democrat Yes
Rep. Ron Estes KS 4 Republican No
Rep. Dwight Evans PA 3 Democrat Yes
Rep. Pat Fallon TX 4 Republican No
Rep. Randy Feenstra IA 4 Republican No