That map is some real dataisugly shit. So many problems. The key is:

• Historical (light red); Current (Red); Active and Passed (dark red); Passed (Black)

Problem 1) “Historical” is such a weird way to presumably mean “previously introduced and failed”. It’s both weird unto itself and because the other way of reading it would be that “this state historically used to have RtR but not anymore”.

Problem 2) The decrease in brightness seems to indicate a trend toward “betterness”, even though a light red to black scale almost always connotes something bad (e.g. a deadly virus).

Problem 3) The same decrease in brightness is problematic because it doesn’t even follow itself: “Active and Passed” is lighter than just “Passed”, even though “Active and Passed” is clearly stronger than just “Passed”.

Problem 4) You don’t need to call it “Active and Passed”. If it’s active, then no fucking shit it’s passed. One legend item has three words instead of one for just no reason.

Problem 5) The “Active and Passed” jurisdictions have white diagonal lines despite the key not having these. Presumably this is to contrast it with the color of “Current”, but like, you chose this color scheme??

Problem 6) The legend (from brightest to least bright) goes 3, 2, 1, 4. This is because for some reason, they decided to place the legend items in alphabetical order.

Too bad Datawrapper isn’t FOSS so you’d have the right to repair whatever it did to this poor data.

Guvmint gives the rights or it gets the fights.

“historical” means failed, right?

Last I checked Hochul unilaterally neutered New Yorks bill just before signing it to law. Do we know that the bills in the other states havent been rendered effectively useless as well?

Just wait for the orange clown to reverse it…

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his iGrave