New Jersey Senate panel approves state voting rights bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a voting rights bill Thursday that supporters said would counter changes to the federal Voting Rights Act.

By: Nikita Biryukov

Outlets: New Jersey Monitor

Published: May 21, 2026

Words: 950

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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A New Jersey Senate panel approved a state-level voting rights bill for the first time since the proposal was raised in 2022, a step that moves the state one step closer to enacting voting protections that have been stripped from the proposal’s federal counterpart.

The bill would expand language access requirements beyond those in federal law, afford state courts broad powers to rewrite discriminatory election rules, and require the state attorney …

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