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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. A. Drew Ferguson GA 3 Republican No
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez NM 3 Democrat Yes
Rep. Michelle Fischbach MN 7 Republican No
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald WI 5 Republican No
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick PA 1 Republican No
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann TN 3 Republican No
Rep. Lizzie Fletcher TX 7 Democrat Yes
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry NE 1 Republican No
Rep. Bill Foster IL 11 Democrat Yes
Rep. Virginia Foxx NC 5 Republican No
Rep. Lois Frankel FL 22 Democrat Yes
Rep. Scott Franklin FL 18 Republican No
Rep. Russ Fulcher ID 1 Republican No
Rep. Matt Gaetz FL 1 Republican No
Rep. Mike Gallagher WI 8 Republican No
Rep. Ruben Gallego AZ 3 Democrat Yes
Rep. John Garamendi CA 8 Democrat Yes
Rep. Andrew Garbarino NY 2 Republican No
Rep. Sylvia Garcia TX 29 Democrat Yes
Rep. Jesús García IL 4 Democrat Yes