Here in Louisiana, we passed a slate of 11 different election integrity bills during our 2024 legislative session. Each bill was designed to earn voters’ trust via three main goals: to help close loopholes in our existing election integrity policies, to establish uniformity in the collection and tabulation of ballots, and to help further clean our voter rolls.
Cleaning Up the Voter Rolls
Act 2 will allow the registrar of voters to conduct an expanded annual canvass of Louisiana voters. Federal law requires that every state conduct voter list maintenance. To that end, every year, election officials send out cards to voters who file a change of address with the U.S. Postal Service, which they sign and return. This process keeps our rolls clean and up-to-date. If someone has moved out of state or passed away, we need to know about it, and they need to be removed from the voter rolls. Act 2 will allow us to send canvass cards to those who have not voted or had contact with our office in 10 or more years, a group numbering over 160,000, according to our records. If they do not respond, they will be moved to the inactive list.
This law was a recommendation of the Louisiana legislative auditor and was previously passed by the legislature three years in a row. Our previous governor vetoed the bill all three times. But now we finally have a governor who understands the importance of election integrity measures.
Requiring Proof of Citizenship
