Lawmakers have filed a total of 361 bills in 47 states in 2021 seeking to restrict voting, the Brennan Center finds.
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The companies have donated tens of thousands of dollars to the lawmakers who sponsored the voter suppression bills.
The law allows unlimited challenges against voters and slashes county election boards’ ability to resist suppression.
Some Republican legislators who promoted voting buses and drop boxes in 2020 have since voted to restrict them.
A Koch group said it’s “incredibly difficult” to sway even Republicans against H.R. 1.
The bill hands the GOP-controlled legislature far-reaching control over election administration and who gets to vote.
Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon was reportedly charged with two felonies for knocking on the governor’s office door.
Conservative groups are pulling out the stops to attack S. 1 and its House equivalent, H.R. 1.
With help from the Heritage Foundation, GOP leaders are working on national guidelines for voter suppression laws.
Just a month after the Capitol attack, AT&T, Intel and Cigna donated $50,000 total to Republican fundraising committees.