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Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights published an online resource that allows users to easily search information about every state’s election procedures.  Complicated state level procedures for voting are often confusing and difficult to navigate in the best of times.  This problem is only exacerbated during a public health emergency.  The new online resource developed by Lawyers’ Committee is designed to provide voters and advocates with up-to-date information and clarity on election procedures in one user friendly location.  

The online State Election Law Overview resource provides detailed information to voters and advocates on several relevant topics, including voter registration, absentee balloting, and in-person early voting.  Users can search relevant information both by issue area across all states and D.C., and by state across all issue areas.  This allows the user to not only compare across states, but also to see how the various voting restrictions in a particular state can, together, impact voter access.  The information in the online resource will be regularly updated by Lawyers’ Committee staff during the 2020 Election Cycle to account for changes to election procedures.