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State of Election Administration Legislation 2024 Year-End Report: Executive summary
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Absentee/mail-in voting • Early voting • Electoral systems • Voting rights for convicted felons • Private funding • Primary systems • Redistricting • Voter identification |
December 12, 2024
By Ballotpedia staff
Executive summary
Every year, state lawmakers consider thousands of bills that would change how Americans vote and how officials administer elections. Ballotpedia’s State of Election Administration 2024 Year-End Report provides insights, analysis, and takeaways from the more than 3,800 election-related bills we tracked this year.
For the third year in a row, states with Republican trifectas enacted more legislation than those with divided governments and Democratic trifectas.
Republican lawmakers led efforts to ban ranked-choice voting (RCV) and passed laws requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, while Democratic lawmakers adopted new cybersecurity standards for voting equipment, and passed laws related to election dis- and mis-information. States of all trifecta statuses considered and adopted legislation related to topics including the absentee/mail-in voting process, voter registration list maintenance, protections for elections workers, and voting by convicted felons or incarcerated individuals.
The majority of adopted legislation this year was administrative in nature and not necessarily related to election policy reform ideas.
This report explores high level trends in election-related legislative activity, and dives into activity in key states and reform topics. The report covers all election-related legislative activity in the 46 states to convene a legislative session from Jan. 1 through November 22, 2024. Unless otherwise noted, the data in this report covers this period. This is the second annual edition of Ballotpedia’s Year-End Report.
Please send any feedback to editor@ballotpedia.org and be on the lookout for more analysis and continued coverage of election-related legislative activity in 2025.
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About the authors
Joe Greaney is a staff writer on Ballotpedia's Marquee Team.
Ballotpedia Editor in Chief Geoff Pallay reviewed the report and provided feedback, as did Managing Editor Cory Eucalitto and Marquee Team Lead Janie Valentine.
See also
- Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker
- About Ballotpedia's Election Administration Legislation Tracker
- Voting laws in the United States
- Election Policy
