This report by Sara Loving and Kevin Morris is published by Brennan Center For Justice. Here is an excerpt:
As state-by-state turnout data becomes available after the midterms, it’s clear that we remain in a period of high voter participation. Current estimates from the U.S. Elections Project suggest that turnout in the 2022 election was just a few percentage points shy of 2018, when turnout was the highest it had been in any midterm election in the past century.
Still, it’s important to remember that high turnout is not equally shared by all voters. Nonwhite turnout has been consistently lower than white turnout, and the racial turnout gap has widened in jurisdictions previously covered by the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme Court gutted the preclearance condition in 2013.
While most states have not yet provided their official 2022 voter file data with Election Day returns, Georgia has already published this data. Turnout in Georgia is especially worthy of examination, considering that its newly enacted Senate Bill 202 erected multiple barriers to voting in the state.
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