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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ authors = ["Angela Couloumbis"]
 blurb = "New challenges are expected to target everything from the legality of drop boxes to what constitutes a valid mail ballot."
 byline = "Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA"
 description = "New challenges are expected to target everything from the legality of drop boxes to what constitutes a valid mail ballot."
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 image = "2023/11/01jn-4rj6-3rk7-d9rx.jpeg"
 image-credit = "Matt Smith / For Spotlight PA"
 image-description = "Workers sort mail ballots on Nov. 7, 2023, at Northampton County Courthouse in Easton, Pennsylvania."
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ But the General Assembly, bogged down by partisan disagreements fueled by Trump
 
 The federal <a href="https://tristatealert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Civil-Rights-Violations-Final-PA-Legislators.pdf">lawsuit</a>, filed by 24 Republican state lawmakers in late January, takes aim at two separate executive actions signed by Biden and Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro.
 
-Biden’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting/">order</a>, signed in March 2021, directed federal agencies to expand opportunities for voter registration. This includes providing state-specific information and links on their websites, as well as “soliciting and facilitating” nonpartisan, third-party organizations to provide voter registration services on their agency’s premises.
+Biden’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/20210307154516/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting/">order</a>, signed in March 2021, directed federal agencies to expand opportunities for voter registration. This includes providing state-specific information and links on their websites, as well as “soliciting and facilitating” nonpartisan, third-party organizations to provide voter registration services on their agency’s premises.
 
 Shapiro <a href="https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/governor-shapiro-implements-automatic-voter-registration-in-pennsylvania-joining-bipartisan-group-of-states-that-have-taken-commonsense-step-to-make-voter-registration-more-streamlined-and-secure/">announced</a> last fall that his administration had launched <a href="https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/09/pennsylvania-automatic-voter-registration-josh-shapiro-penndot/">automatic voter registration in Pennsylvania</a>. He directed the state and transportation departments to automatically lead people through signing up to vote when applying for a driver&#39;s license or ID card, unless they choose to opt out. Before, PennDOT employees would ask residents receiving those services if they wanted to register to vote.