“State Voting Laws Roundup: October 2025”

Brennan Center:

State governments in 2025 are nearly on pace to match the number of restrictive voting laws enacted in 2021, when states enacted more restrictive legislation than at any other point so far in the 14 years the Brennan Center has tracked state voting legislation. That year, driven in large part by lies about the 2020 election being stolen, state legislatures passed an unprecedented number of laws that limited access to voting. Through 2024, that number declined but never returned to pre-2021 levels.

…..As of early October 2025, the number of states (16) that have enacted restrictive laws and the total number of restrictive laws (29) are just about on par with the year-end total from the record-setting 2021 (32 laws in 17 states), and more than 2023, when at least 14 states passed 17 restrictive laws. With more than two months left in the year, more laws could pass, including in North Carolina, where a broad election bill is progressing.

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