Big news for Virginia voting access: Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has signed a law adopting automatic voter registration via the DMV. Northam has until midnight tonight to act on several more voting-related bills. This cartogram shows which states have AVR laws. lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp60… 
Northam also signed laws to:
1—Make Election Day a state holiday
2—Extend E-Day poll closing from 7pm to 8pm
3—Require all votes be cast with voter-verifiable paper trails
4—Count absentee ballots if they're postmarked by E-Day.
Background on what's left: dailykos.com/stories/2020/2…
1—Make Election Day a state holiday
2—Extend E-Day poll closing from 7pm to 8pm
3—Require all votes be cast with voter-verifiable paper trails
4—Count absentee ballots if they're postmarked by E-Day.
Background on what's left: dailykos.com/stories/2020/2…
More big news for Virginia voting access: Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has signed a law letting voters register on the same day they vote starting in 2022. This cartogram shows all the same-day registration states. VA also just passed automatic registration lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp60…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has also signed laws to let voters opt into automatically receiving mail ballots in all future elections, let out-of-state student IDs count for voter ID, & let local govts adopt ranked-choice voting. More here: dailykos.com/stories/2020/4…
Unfortunately, Virginia Democrats failed to pass a law implementing prepaid postage for mail ballots this year, something that will be key for protecting voting access amid coronavirus. The law they passed requires passage again in 2021 to take effect
