Voting Laws Roundup: May 2022

This year, state lawmakers, who spent 2021 passing laws that made it harder to vote, have focused more intently on elec­tion inter­fer­ence, passing nine laws that could lead to tamper­ing with how elec­tions are run and how results are determ­ined.

Elec­tion inter­fer­ence laws do two primary things. They open the door to partisan inter­fer­ence in elec­tions, or they threaten the people and processes that make elec­tions work. In many cases, these efforts are being justi­fied as meas­ures to combat base­less claims of wide­spread voter fraud and a stolen 2020 elec­tion.