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NCSL tracks election and campaign issues in several major categories: campaign finance, election policy and administration, election results and analysis, and initiative and referendum. The organization provides comprehensive 50-state research and analysis on a wide variety of topics related to these issues. Additionally, NCSL's Redistricting and Elections Standing Committee works on issues that affect all states and hosts meetings of national interest.

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NCSL Election Resources

The NCSL elections team provides a variety of resources on election issues, including but not limited to 50-state surveys on state laws, legislation databases, a monthly elections newsletter, enactment summaries and other publications.
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State-Federal Legislative Forecast 2025: Key Issues and Trends

From fiscal challenges to tech innovations and workforce dynamics, the legislative issues dominating state discussions are also setting the stage for federal priorities. As 2025 approaches, these topics will likely shape the national agenda. Forecast ’25

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State Voting Rights Acts

The federal Voting Rights Act, originally enacted in 1965 and amended twice since then, outlaws race-based discrimination in voting, protects the voting rights of people with disabilities or limited English proficiency and plays an important role in redistricting. Several states have enacted their own Voting Rights Acts that mirror the federal act in many ways and go into further detail in some cases.
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Polling Places

Polling place requirements by state, including information about schools as polling places, restrictions on polling places, and guns in polling places.
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