Warren calls for 'right to vote' constitutional amendment, abolishing electoral college
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Source: Think Progress
"We need a constitutional amendment that protects the right to vote for every American citizen."
Addy Baird
Mar 19, 2019, 1:27 pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) endorsed a constitutional amendment enshrining the right to vote, which she said would bring some “federal muscle” to repealing voter suppression laws around the country.
She made her remarks at a town hall late Monday in Mississippi, the state that disenfranchises more people with felony convictions than any other in the United States.
Being convicted in Mississippi of any one of 22 different offenses can result in a lifetime ban on voting, and according to The Sentencing Project, as of 2016, about a full ten percent of people in Mississippi have been disenfranchised due to a previous conviction.
“How will you expand voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, ensure online voter registration, and non-excuse early voting?” an attendee asked Warren.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/warren-town-hall-right-to-vote-70987b9ddbbf/
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.................
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