Legislation

We opposed a bill which would have eliminated the counting of write-in votes for persons who had not filed in advance a “declaration of intent.”

The ACLU once again supported legislation to rectify a disparity in voter representation and require all prisoners to be counted, for voting purposes only, at their last known address.

H 7901A attempted to address the need for emergency electoral measures during COVID-19 by halving the ballot signature requirement which is required to run for federal office, but did not adequately confront the core concerns that this bill was created into response to.

This legislation would have required all prisoners to be counted, for redistricting purposes only, at their last known address, rather than at the prison that they are incarcerated in.

This legislation allows Boards of Canvassers to combine voting districts for many elections, and ultimately passed without amendments which we proposed to ensure proper notification to voters and limits on the voters who can be sent to a polling location.

Regardless of who a vote is for, all voters fundamentally deserve the right for their votes to be counted. For this reason, we opposed a bill which would have eliminated the counting of write-in votes for persons who had not filed in advance a “declaration of intent.”

The ACLU once again supported legislation to require all prisoners to be counted, for voting purposes only, at their last known address.