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 145 bills state legislatures acted on in the past week.
Weekly highlights
The big takeaways from the past week’s legislative actions.
Lawmakers in 21 states acted on 145 bills over the last week, 25 fewer than last week. Twenty-two state legislatures are still in regular or special sessions.
- Ten bills were enacted this week. Twenty bills were enacted during the same week in 2024, 46 were enacted in 2023, and 10 were enacted in 2022.
- Legislators acted on 70 bills in 2024 and 49 in 2023 during the same week.
- Ninety-seven of the bills acted on this week are in states with Democratic trifectas, 31 are in states with Republican trifectas, and 17 are in states with a divided government.
- The most active bill categories this week were election types and contest-specific procedures (44), absentee/mail-in voting (22), and counting and certification (21).
- We are currently following 4,574 bills. At this time in 2023, the last odd year when all states held legislative sessions, we were following 2,608 bills.
In the news
A glance at what’s making headlines in the world of election law.
- On June 18, the Ohio Senate passed SB4, a bill creating an Election Integrity Unit within the Ohio Secretary of State’s office. The unit would have the authority to independently investigate allegations of voter fraud and suppression and refer these cases to state and local prosecutors.
- On June 16, a New Hampshire Senate committee agreed to state House amendments to SB287, a bill requiring additional verification for voters requesting an absentee ballot to be mailed to an address other than their official checklist address. The bill now heads back to the full Senate for a final vote.
- On June 16, a three-judge panel heard arguments in a federal case regarding North Carolina’s congressional and legislative districts. The North Carolina NAACP and a group of North Carolina voters filed two separate lawsuits in 2023, alleging the state’s redrawn districts dilute the voting power of Black and Latino voters and violate the Voting Rights Act.
- On June 13, Republicans in Fulton County, Georgia, filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Fulton County alleging that the county’s Board of Commissioners blocked two GOP nominees to the County Board of Elections. Georgia law requires the commission to appoint two people to the board from each of the political parties that received the most votes in the state.
Key movements
A look at what bills are moving and where.
Ten bills were enacted in the past week. Twenty bills were enacted during the same week in 2024, 46 were enacted in 2023, and 10 were enacted in 2022. To see all enacted bills, click here.
- Florida (Republican trifecta)
- Nevada (divided government)
- Ohio (Republican trifecta)
- Oregon (Democratic trifecta)
Eighteen bills passed both chambers of state legislatures. To see the full list of all bills awaiting gubernatorial action, click here.
- Ohio (Republican trifecta)
- Oregon (Democratic trifecta)
Three bills were vetoed in the past week. Sixty-one bills have been vetoed so far this year. No bills were vetoed during this period in 2024, no bills were vetoed in 2023, and one bill was 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
Ten 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 25 weeks of each year.
All bills
We are following 4,574 election-related bills this year, including bills carried over from the previous year.
- Trifecta status
- Democratic: 1,697 (37.1%)
- Republican: 2,126 (46.5%)
- Divided: 751 (16.4%)
- Partisan sponsorship
- Democratic: 1,752 (38.3%)
- Republican: 2,214 (48.4%)
- Bipartisan: 4.9386 (8.4%)
- Other: 222 (4.9%)
We were following 2,608 bills at this point in 2023. Below is a breakdown of those bills by trifecta status and partisan sponsorship.
- Trifecta status
- Democratic: 1,351 (51.8%)
- Republican: 863 (33.1%)
- Divided: 394 (15.1%)
- Partisan sponsorship
- Democratic: 1,185 (45.4%)
- Republican: 978 (37.5%)
- Bipartisan: 302 (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.
