The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration, June 13, 2025

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Ballotpedia staff

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration. Every Friday, we deliver the latest updates on election policy around the country, including nationwide trends and recent legislative activity. 

In this week’s Ballot Bulletin, we cover 170 bills state legislatures acted on in the past week.

Weekly highlights

The big takeaways from the past week’s legislative actions. 

Lawmakers in 24 states acted on 170 bills over the last week, 42 fewer than last week. 

  • Twenty-one bills were enacted this week. Three bills were enacted during the same week in 2024, 58 were enacted in 2023, and five were enacted in 2022.
  • Legislators acted on 90 bills in 2024 and 71 in 2023 during the same week. 
  • Ninety-three of the bills acted on this week are in states with Democratic trifectas, 46 are in states with Republican trifectas, and 31 are in states with a divided government.  
  • The most active bill categories this week were election types and contest-specific procedures (42), campaign finance (34), ballot access (17), election dates and deadlines (17), and voter registration and list maintenance (17).
  • We are currently following 4,547 bills. At this time in 2023, the last odd year when all states held legislative sessions, we were following 2,595 bills.

In the news

A glance at what’s making headlines in the world of election law.

  • On June 12, Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap (R) sued the county’s board of supervisors, alleging that the supervisors “engaged in an unlawful attempt to seize near-total control over the administration of elections.” In Arizona, county supervisors are responsible for voter registration and early voting, while the board of supervisors manages Election Day voting. 
  • On June 11, the Maine House of Representatives approved LD1666, a bill expanding the state’s use of ranked-choice voting to gubernatorial and state legislative elections. The bill passed 72-70 in the House and 20-14 in the Senate along party lines, with Democrats generally favoring the bill and Republicans opposing it. The bill now heads to Gov. Janet T. Mills (D).
  • On June 10, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed three election-related bills, including AB105, which prohibits guns within 100 feet of any polling place, counting place, or drop box. Lombardo said the bill “merely duplicates protections already established under both federal and state law against voter intimidation near polling places.”
  • On June 6, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement in support of plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Oregon’s voter list maintenance process. The group Judicial Watch, the Constitution Party of Oregon, and two Oregon voters filed the lawsuit last October. The plaintiffs alleged the state violated the National Voter Registration Act by failing to remove dead or ineligible voters from its voter registration list. 

Key movements

A look at what bills are moving and where. 

Twenty-one bills were enacted in the past week. Three bills were enacted during the same week in 2024, 58 were enacted in 2023, and five were enacted in 2022. To see all enacted bills, click here.

  • Nebraska (Republican trifecta)
  • North Carolina (divided government)
  • Wyoming (Republican trifecta)

Twenty-seven bills passed both chambers of state legislatures. To see the full list of all bills awaiting gubernatorial action, click here.

Four bills were vetoed in the past week. Fifty-five bills have been vetoed so far this year. One bill was vetoed during this period in 2024, five bills were vetoed in 2023, and three bills were vetoed in 2022. To see all vetoed bills, click here.

The big picture

Zooming out to see the macro-level trends in election policy so far this year. 

Enacted bills

Twenty-one bills were enacted this week. The chart below shows the number of enacted bills in 2025 compared to previous years.

The chart below shows the number of bills enacted over the first 24 weeks of each year.

All bills

We are following 4,547 election-related bills this year, including bills carried over from the previous year. 

  • Trifecta status
    • Democratic: 1,684 (37%)
    • Republican: 2,118 (46.6%) 
    • Divided: 744 (16.4%) 
  • Partisan sponsorship
    • Democratic: 1,742 (38.3%)
    • Republican: 2,201 (48.4%)
    • Bipartisan: 377 (8.3%)
    • Other: 226 (5%)

We were following 2,595 bills at this point in 2023. Below is a breakdown of those bills by trifecta status and partisan sponsorship.

  • Trifecta status
    • Democratic: 1,347 (51.9%)
    • Republican: 855 (32.9%) 
    • Divided: 393 (15.1%) 
  • Partisan sponsorship
    • Democratic: 1,178 (45.4%)
    • Republican: 973 (37.5%)
    • Bipartisan: 301 (11.6%)
    • Other: 143 (5.5%)

See the charts below for a comparison of total bills between 2023 and 2025 and a breakdown of all 2025 legislation by trifecta status and partisan sponsorship.