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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. Vern Buchanan FL 16 Republican No
Rep. Ken Buck CO 4 Republican No
Rep. Larry Bucshon IN 8 Republican No
Sen. Ted Budd NC Republican No
Rep. Tim Burchett TN 2 Republican No
Rep. Michael C. Burgess TX 26 Republican No
Rep. Cori Bush MO 1 Democrat Yes
Rep. Cheri Bustos IL 17 Democrat Yes
Rep. G. K. Butterfield NC 1 Democrat Yes
Rep. Ken Calvert CA 41 Republican No
Rep. Kat Cammack FL 3 Republican No
Rep. Salud Carbajal CA 24 Democrat Yes
Rep. Tony Cárdenas CA 29 Democrat Yes
Rep. Jerry Carl AL 1 Republican No
Rep. André Carson IN 7 Democrat Yes
Rep. John Carter TX 31 Republican No
Rep. Troy Carter LA 2 Democrat Yes
Rep. Buddy Carter GA 1 Republican No
Rep. Matt Cartwright PA 8 Democrat Yes
Rep. Ed Case HI 1 Democrat Yes