Advance the Accessible Voting Act to expand voting access for older Americans, people with disabilities, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Indigenous peoples, and language-minority voters by improving accessible registration, absentee voting, in-person voting, voter information, training, and grant support.

“I’m proud our legislation will address these systemic deficiencies so we can make sure everyone is able to vote regardless of a disability, where you live, or what language you speak.”

Raskin committed through the Accessible Voting Act to address systemic voting-access barriers and make voting accessible regardless of disability, location, or language.

Scanlon, Raskin Introduce Accessible Voting Act to Expand Voting Rights for Older Americans, People With Disabilities | Press Releases | Congressman Jamie Raskin
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The House amendment was titled the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act and included voter-access divisions covering registration, disability and older-voter access, vote by mail, HAVA funding support, poll-worker training grants, and a Native American Voting Rights Act subtitle with task-force grants, accessible Tribal polling sites, language-assistance provisions, and protections for American Indian and Alaska Native voters.

This bill text closely matches the promise’s substance: accessible registration, absentee/mail voting, in-person voting protections, voter information, training, grants, Native/Alaska Native voting access, and language assistance. It was a concrete legislative vehicle, but bill text alone does not show enactment.

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GovInfo - H.R. 5746 Engrossed Amendment House, Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act
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The House Clerk records H.R. 5746 as passing on the motion to concur with an amendment, 220-203, and lists Rep. Raskin of Maryland voting Yea.

Raskin took a concrete floor vote to advance the voting-access package that contained disability, older-voter, Native/Alaska Native, language-access, training, and grant provisions. This supports effort/advancement, not final delivery.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House - Roll Call 9 on H.R. 5746
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The Senate vote on cloture for the motion to concur in the House amendment to H.R. 5746 required three-fifths support; the result was rejected, 49 yeas to 51 nays.

The voting-access package Raskin supported did not clear the Senate cloture hurdle and therefore was not enacted through this route. This is evidence of failed delivery despite clear House-side effort.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 117th Congress, 2nd Session, Vote 9
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H.R. 1 included election-access provisions for online and automatic registration, HAVA payments, access to voting for individuals with disabilities, grants to assure disability voting access, early voting, voting by mail, poll-worker recruitment and training grants, Indian-land accommodations, voter information response systems, drop boxes, and curbside voting.

Earlier in the same Congress, the For the People Act contained several accessibility provisions aligned with the promise. This shows the policy was advanced through another major voting-rights vehicle, but the introduced text itself was not enactment.

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GovInfo - H.R. 1 Introduced in House, For the People Act of 2021
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The House Clerk records H.R. 1, the For the People Act, as passing 220-210 and lists Rep. Raskin of Maryland voting Yea.

Raskin voted to advance a broad voting-access bill with disability access, registration, mail-voting, Indian-land accommodation, voter-information, and training-grant provisions. This is concrete effort, but not final enactment.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House - Roll Call 62 on H.R. 1
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 1 as introduced by Rep. John Sarbanes, passed by the House on March 3, 2021, and received in the Senate on March 11, 2021; its status is Passed House, not law.

Official bill status confirms H.R. 1 advanced through the House but did not become enacted law. This supports partial advancement rather than fulfillment.

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Congress.gov - H.R. 1, For the People Act of 2021
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The Senate vote on cloture for proceeding to S. 2093, the For the People Act of 2021, required three-fifths support; cloture was rejected, 50 yeas to 50 nays.

The Senate blocked the companion For the People Act effort, so the accessibility and voting-access provisions were not enacted through that bill. This weighs against full delivery while preserving evidence of effort.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 117th Congress, 1st Session, Vote 246
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