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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. Jesús García IL 4 Democrat Yes
Rep. Bob Gibbs OH 7 Republican No
Rep. Carlos Giménez FL 28 Republican No
Rep. Louie Gohmert TX 1 Republican No
Rep. Jared Golden ME 2 Democrat Yes
Rep. Jimmy Gomez CA 34 Democrat Yes
Rep. Tony Gonzales TX 23 Republican No
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez TX 34 Democrat Yes
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez OH 16 Republican No
Rep. Robert Good VA 5 Republican No
Rep. Lance Gooden TX 5 Republican No
Rep. Paul Gosar AZ 9 Republican No
Rep. Josh Gottheimer NJ 5 Democrat Yes
Rep. Kay Granger TX 12 Republican No
Rep. Sam Graves MO 6 Republican No
Rep. Garret Graves LA 6 Republican No
Rep. Al Green TX 9 Democrat Yes
Rep. Mark Green TN 7 Republican No
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene GA 14 Republican No
Rep. Morgan Griffith VA 9 Republican No