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The bill hands control of voter-registration processes back to states, giving state and local officials flexibility and modest cost savings while risking reduced and uneven access to registration for millions—especially disadvantaged voters.
State and local election officials regain authority to design voter-registration processes without following federal NVRA mandates, giving them greater flexibility to tailor procedures to local needs.
States may reduce or avoid federal NVRA compliance costs, lowering administrative expenditures for state governments.
Millions of eligible voters — especially low-income individuals — may lose guaranteed registration opportunities at DMVs, public assistance offices, and some registration drives.
States could adopt more restrictive registration procedures that lower overall registration and turnout, disproportionately harming low-income people, racial and ethnic minorities, and students.
Varying state-level procedures may produce uneven voting access across states, creating confusion for voters and prompting legal challenges that burden state and local election administrators.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and removes that entire federal statute from law. This ends federal requirements that create standardized voter registration opportunities and procedures nationwide, including the so-called "motor voter" program and certain voter list maintenance rules. As a result, the federal rules that required state DMVs and many public assistance offices to offer voter registration, limited how and when states can remove people from voter rolls, and provided federal enforcement options would no longer apply; authority and decisions about those matters would revert to state and local governments unless other federal law still applies.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress January 3, 2025