That figure is 66% above the comparable point in 2024 and nearly two-and-a-half times the 96 bills enacted at this stage in 2022, per Ballotpedia's State of Election Policy 2026 Spring Report. Legislators have also introduced 4,427 election bills and resolutions this year — nearly matching all of 2025's full-year total. The long arc here is instructive: concentrated bursts of state-level election-law rewriting have historically followed contested or delegitimized federal elections, from the post-Reconstruction rollback of the 1870s through the post-2020 wave. What distinguishes 2026 is the volume on both sides of the partisan ledger — Republican trifectas account for 53.4% of enacted bills, Democratic trifectas 37.7% — suggesting the norm of stable, bipartisan election administration is giving way to a race in which each coalition treats the rules themselves as a battleground to be won before voters ever cast a ballot.