Senate committee hears bill to create Vermont Voting Rights Act, adds language assistance and new election-interference offenses
The Senate Government Operations Committee reviewed S.298, the Vermont Voting Rights Act, which would add language-access requirements, protections for older and disabled voters, preclearance for certain electoral changes, a voter-education fund, new criminal and civil election-interference offenses, and a rule to count incarcerated people at their last known address for redistricting; witnesses from RepresentWomen, FairVote Action, and Harvard’s Election Law Clinic urged passage and amendments.
