Secretary of State Nancy Landry speaks during an interview at her office on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Secretary of State Nancy Landry speaks during an interview at her office on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry has been busy these past seven months.
After taking the helm as the state's chief election officer in January, Landry crafted a vision for her agency that embraces the sorts of other Republican-led states have passed in the years after the 2020 presidential election. Some of those measures, long sought by her predecessor Kyle Ardoin, were struck down by former Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.
But Nancy Landry has found an ally in Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, who signed each of her proposals into law this year. The laws — which create new absentee voting and voter registration requirements and require an additional yearly canvass of voter registration records, among other changes — are controversial.
Some have from advocates who say they will disenfranchise disabled voters, while other critics say the rules will unfairly target Democrats. But putting these measures into law this year was "vital," Landry said. "The election integrity package I championed closes loopholes, protects our most vulnerable voters, ensures that chain-of-custody best practices are followed, and represents one more step to making Louisiana No.
1 in election integrity." The Lafayette native is also far from done making changes at the Department of State. Landry in.