Maria Cantwell on Voting & Elections

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Voting & Elections6 votes · 100/100 consistent

Expand accessRestrict access

13 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Voting & Elections. 6 of them counted toward the score above: 6 toward “Expand access” and 0 toward “Restrict access”.

The other 7 did not count: 7 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2021-11-03	A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.S. 4 · 117th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Expand access
2018-08-01	To provide for election security grants.H.R. 6147 · 115th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2016-02-02	To require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons benefitting from fossil fuel activities.S. 2012 · 114th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand access
2015-03-26	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to making it more difficult for corporations and billionaires to secretly influence elections by making unlimited undisclosed campaign expenditures, and to prevent such entities from evading campaign finance law, including through making false statements to government agencies.S.Con.Res. 11 · 114th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2015-01-28	To require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons benefitting from tar sands development.S. 1 · 114th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand access
2015-01-22	To require campaign finance disclosures for certain persons benefitting from tar sands development.S. 1 · 114th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2006-07-20	A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965.H.R. 9 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Expand access
2002-02-26	To amend the short title to read ?Martin Luther King, Jr. Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001".S. 565 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2002-02-14	To secure the Federal voting rights of certain qualified persons who have served their sentences.S. 565 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand access
2001-03-27	To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better reporting, decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing individual contribution limits, and for other purposes.S. 27 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-27	To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better reporting, decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing individual contribution limits, and for other purposes.S. 27 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-27	To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better reporting, decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing individual contribution limits, and for other purposes.S. 27 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
1993-01-05	RULES OF THE HOUSE — H.RES.5 BY GEPHARDT (D-MO) -- RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE FOR THE 103D CONGRESS (HOUSE AGREED TO THE GEPHARDT MOTION TO TABLE THE SOLOMON MOTION THAT SOUGHT TO REFER THE RESOLUTION TO A SELECT COMMITTEE OF FIVE MEMBERS WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO CONDUCT A FULL STUDY OF, AND MAKE A DETERMINATION ON, THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THOSE PROVISIONS WHICH WOULD GRANT VOTING RIGHTS IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TO THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONER FROM PUERTO RICO AND THE DELEGATES FROM AMERICAN SAMOA, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, GUAM, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.)H.Res. 5 · 103rd Congress · TABLE MOTION TO REFER	Yea	Expand access

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Expand access / Restrict access axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.