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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 State District Sort descending Party Vote
Sen. Markwayne Mullin OK Republican No
Sen. Ted Budd NC Republican No
Sen. Peter Welch VT Democrat Yes
Rep. Kelly Armstrong ND 0 Republican No
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester DE 0 Democrat Yes
Rep. Liz Cheney WY 0 Republican No
Rep. Don Young AK 0 Republican No
Rep. Dusty Johnson SD 0 Republican No
Rep. Doug LaMalfa CA 1 Republican No
Rep. John B. Larson CT 1 Democrat Yes
Rep. Nancy Mace SC 1 Republican No
Rep. Tracey Mann KS 1 Republican No
Rep. David McKinley WV 1 Republican No
Rep. Carol Miller WV 1 Republican No
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks IA 1 Republican No
Rep. Jack Bergman MI 1 Republican No
Rep. Blake Moore UT 1 Republican No
Rep. Frank Mrvan IN 1 Democrat Yes
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici OR 1 Democrat Yes
Rep. Richard E. Neal MA 1 Democrat Yes