States That Expanded access (17)
Colorado
Key changes: Colorado has passed a law that allows some voters with disabilities to return their ballots electronically. Another, HB 1011, improves language accessability for ballots.
Connecticut
Key changes: With SB 1202, Connecticut has restored voting rights for people on parole, and increased voter registration access. Lawmakers have also advanced constitutional amendments, which would have to be approved by voters, on in-person early voting and no-excuse absentee voting.
Delaware
Key changes: Via SB 5, Delaware has established automatic voter registration at DMV facilities and at other government agencies.
Hawaii
Key changes: With SB 548, Hawaii has expanded voter registration opportunities and time for ballot dropoffs.
Illinois
Key changes: Illinois’ SB 825 eases access to mail voting with a new permanent absentee voting list, and provides greater access to voters with disabilities.
Indiana
Key changes: While Indiana has new limits on drop boxes, measures such as SB 398 expand options for voter ID and early voting opportunities, and create a process to “cure” signature errors on ballot envelopes.
Louisiana
Key changes: One law offers new instructions on voter purges. Louisiana’s HB 286 extends the early voting period for presidential elections. Another measure removes hurdles to registration for people with past felony convictions.
Maine
Key changes: Maine has enacted laws to ease voter registration and mail voting, and which codify the use of ballot drop boxes.
Maryland
Key changes: New measures in Maryland, including HB 1048 (SB 683), create a permanent absentee voter list, authorize and regulate drop box use, and expand early voting centers and hours.
Nevada
Key changes: AB 321 makes Nevada among the new states to establish a vote-by-mail system, in which all eligible voters receive a ballot in the mail. Among its other provisions, the law also expands drop boxes and eases voter registration.
New Jersey
Key changes: New Jersey’s SB 3203 expands early voting.
New Mexico
Key changes: HB 231 prohibits the elimination or consolidation of a polling place on Native land.
New York
Key changes: One new law eases voter registration in New York. Lawmakers also advanced proposed constitutional amendments to eliminate the requirement that people have an excuse to vote by mail, and to eliminate the voter registration deadline that’s 10 days before Election Day.
Oregon
Key changes: Oregon’s new laws improve language accessibility for ballots and grant extra time for the receipt of mail ballots.
Vermont
Key changes: Vermont’s SB 15 establishes a vote-by-mail system for general elections. It also expands use of drop boxes, establishes a way for voters to “cure” ballot errors, and permits outdoor polling places and drive-up voting at certain locations.
Virginia
Key changes: Virginia’s HB 1890 (SB 1395) creates the state’s own Voting Rights Act, prohibiting discrimination in election administration. The state also has new laws that offer early voting hours on Sundays and expand ballot drop box access.
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Washington
Key changes: HB 1078 in Washington automatically restores voting eligibility to people convicted of felonies when they complete the incarceration part of their sentence.
States That Restricted access (9)
Arizona
Key changes: Arizona has passed several measures, most notably SB 1485, which changes the state’s popular Permanent Early Voting List into an “active” voter list, meaning thousands of voters could be removed from the list. GOP lawmakers have also expanded ballot signature requirements and stripped some election power from the Democratic secretary of state.
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Arkansas
Key changes: Arkansas has enacted voting measures, including SB 643, that curtail on drop box usage, shorten the timeline for requesting and submitting mail ballots, and eliminate alternatives to presenting an ID.
Florida
Key changes: SB 90 is omnibus legislation that places new restrictions on ballot drop boxes, adds new ID requirements for mail voting, and makes voters request mail-in ballots more regularly, among many other changes.
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Iowa
Key changes: Wide-ranging SB 413 sets an earlier voter registration deadline, shortens the window to apply for a mail ballot, reduces the state’s early voting period and polling hours, and restricts drop boxes.
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Texas
Key changes: Texas Republicans’ SB 1, which passed after historic efforts by Democrats to try to derail it, includes new ID requirements for people voting by mail and gives voters new opportunities to correct mistakes with their mail ballots. It also creates new criminal penalties for people who assist voters at the polls; bans drive-thru voting and extended voting hours; and empowers partisan poll watchers.
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Wyoming
Key changes: Wyoming’s HB 75 institutes a voter ID provision for in-person voting.