{"id":226,"date":"2022-01-27T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/massachusetts-house-sends-votes-act-to-conference-committee\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T21:30:07","slug":"massachusetts-house-sends-votes-act-to-conference-committee","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/massachusetts-house-sends-votes-act-to-conference-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts House Sends VOTES Act to Conference Committee"},"template":"","class_list":["post-226","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The House of Representatives made progress on much needed reforms in the VOTES Act, like vote by mail, expanded early voting, and jail-based voting which will make our democracy stronger.","featured_image":6117,"press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7814}"],"related_issues":[100,109,462],"related_work":false,"location":24},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Today, the Massachusetts House approved its version of <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/H4359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H.4359<\/a>, the VOTES Act.\r\n\r\nBecause the version approved today differs from the version passed by the Senate, the bill will go to a conference committee. Among the differences that need to be reconciled: Same Day voter registration provisions were stripped from the bill during House Ways and Means Committee review. When the bill was first filed, it included Same Day voter registration; and 84 Representatives, the majority of House members, signed on as cosponsors. Efforts to add Election Day Registration back into the bill during House consideration today were not successful.\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i>Statement of the Massachusetts Election Modernization Coalition<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"color: black\">The House of Representatives made progress on much needed reforms in the VOTES Act like vote by mail, expanded early voting, and jail-based voting which will make our democracy stronger. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: black\">We are truly disappointed the House voted 93-64 to defeat Election-Day Voter Registration. 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