Pennsylvania signed a voter ID bill into law, and Virginia is on the verge of signing another. This means 70 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win in 2012 will now come from states with new restrictive voting laws, according to a new Brennan Center analysis.

The Brennan Center released the following statement in response to a Dane County Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge’s issuing a permanent injunction against a new state law requiring voter identification after finding the law unconstitutional under the Wisconsin state constitution.

Today, the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC) moved to intervene in federal court to stop the state’s restrictive photo ID law and to defend the Voting Rights Act.

A federal judge today will hold a hearing on Florida’s controversial election law, which places onerous restrictions on community-based voter registration drives.