Voters across the country shaped future election rules on Tuesday by deciding on over 140 statewide ballot questions. People weighed in on voting rights, identification laws, and redistricting maps. Nicholas Stephanopoulos said, "It's a partisan story, not one of consistency with respect to redistricting." These results set important new policies.

Many of the more than 140 statewide ballot questions were centered on voting rights, redistricting and voter identification laws.

As voters elected state and local officials on Tuesday, many also weighed in on how future elections would be run and how their own votes would be counted.

In Virginia, voters backed a state constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to people convicted of felonies upon their release. In Utah, they rejected a measure that would have raised the share of votes needed to approve certain changes to taxes. And in South Dakota, they rebuffed an effort to require a 60 percent supermajority vote to amend their state's constitution.

Measures to ban noncitizen voting or require voters to present identification also passed in a few states -- West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota and Ohio -- with more votes still being counted into the early morning Wednesday. But voter identification initiatives were rejected in Colorado and California.

Voters also sounded off on redistricting.

In Maryland, voters cleared a path for a new congressional map that could boost Democratic representation in 2028. In Missouri, they rejected a redrawn map that could have provided Republicans an advantage. Those moves followed a redistricting blitz that came at the urging of President Trump intended to gain more Republican seats. Ultimately, the efforts did not stave off significant Democratic victories.

"Given the blue wave it's basically what you'd expect -- voters blocking a Republican gerrymander in Missouri and greenlighting a future Democratic gerrymander in Maryland," Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard Law School professor, said in a text message. "It's a partisan story, not one of consistency with respect to redistricting."

The election measures were a sizable chunk of the more than 140 statewide ballot questions that gave voters the opportunity to set policy directly on Tuesday, on issues ranging from abortion and transgender rights to taxation and affordability.

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