Democrats hold a voter registration advantage over Republicans in the key battleground state.

Also this week, New Mexico pledged to invest $300 million for early childhood education, and Kentucky announced a record number of registered voters.

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee are fighting to defend laws that make it harder for people to vote.

A record number of Kentuckians are registered to vote, just in time for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s reelection race.

A federal court ruled that Florida cannot force former felons to repay their court costs before getting their right to vote back.

Progressives notched victories on voting rights in both Virginia and North Dakota, and the House of Representatives took steps forward on the Equal Rights Amendment.

North Dakota will accept tribal IDs as identification at the voting booth moving forward.

A federal court struck down a Republican-backed law because it had ‘a discriminatory impact on American Indian, Hispanic, and African American voters in Arizona.’

Secretary of State Michael Adams said he was ‘a little concerned’ about ‘potentially foreign actors’ interfering in the next election and suggested a voter ID law would stop them.

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Nearly every single House Republican rejected the Voting Rights Advancement Act last month.

Advocates are organizing to help inexperienced or previously disenfranchised voters cast a ballot.

Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment the same week New Jersey’s governor signed legislation to protect health care and three states saw voting rights victories.

The court called the law ‘misleading’ and ‘contradictory.’

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest condemned the NAACP’s opposition to the law as ‘ludicrous.’

Virginia welcomes its first woman speaker of the House of Delegates the same week New York legislators pass a bill making it easier to vote, and Kansas worked to expand health care to 150,000 more residents.

A conservative law firm wants the state election board to be held in contempt for not purging 200,000 voters from the rolls.

New Jersey took positive steps to restore voting rights, and Virginia is poised to make progress on the same issue in the new year.

A judge ruled the state could purge the voters who didn’t respond to a letter asking for address confirmation within 30 days.

Localities rejected thousands of requests for absentee ballots because of missing or dissimilar-looking signatures.

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg graces the cover of Time magazine and voting rights take the spotlight in Kentucky.

A new executive order by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear will restore rights to those with nonviolent felony convictions, who previously lost their ability to vote.

Democratic governors are partnering with Stacey Abrams to ensure voting rights are protected.

Kansas joins states like Colorado and Utah in embracing refugees in their states, while citizens in Alabama saw a new statue of Rosa Parks unveiled in Montgomery.

The Voting Rights Advancement Act aims to restore protections decimated by the Supreme Court in 2013.

Florida’s Republican governor is seeking to overturn a voter-approved constitutional amendment giving those with nonviolent felony convictions the right to vote.

A federal judge ruled this week that the state must stop listing Republicans first on its ballots.

Georgia’s absentee ballot law ‘will have a disproportionate effect on minority voters,’ according to the lawsuit.

Abortion rights advocates also scored a big win in Alabama and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers moved to protect marginalized communities ahead of the 2020 census.

Virginians could see new movement on gun background checks and voting rights if Democrats win big on Tuesday.