Sentence examples for most restrictive voting from inspiring English sources

The record shows that, immediately after Shelby County, the General Assembly vastly expanded an earlier photo ID bill and rushed through the legislative process the most restrictive voting legislation seen in North Carolina since enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The state has among the most restrictive voting rules in the country.

In fact, Mr. Bloomberg, who was joined by leaders of government watchdog groups and city and state lawmakers, argued that New York has the most restrictive voting laws in the country.

For nearly half a decade, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has used the specter of elections fraud to pass some of the country's most restrictive voting laws.

"Over the last few years, all of the most restrictive voting laws have passed through governments that were entirely controlled by the Republican Party," Brater said.

Kobach, who has pushed one of the most restrictive voting laws in the country, quickly seized upon the conviction, suggesting that there was more voter fraud in the state.

In 2013, North Carolina adopted perhaps the most restrictive voting-rights provisions in the country.

Most of the states that passed restrictive voting laws have Republican-controlled legislatures.

Their efforts will move to the forefront on Tuesday when House Republicans plan to bring to the floor a measure that would prohibit the procedure after 22 weeks of pregnancy — the most restrictive abortion bill to come to a vote in either chamber in a decade.

They passed one of the country's most restrictive voter ID laws, eliminating same-day registration, cutting early voting from 17 days to 10 days, demanding government issued photo ID at the polls and ending pre-registration for 16 and 17-year-olds who come of age on election day.

Despite its reputation as a solidly Democratic state in presidential years, New York's voting laws are among some of the most restrictive in the country.