Now we just need one that goes beyond current efforts to overturn and focuses on systematic voter suppression.
As I posted elsewhere:
We need more, and more effective, national efforts to end voter suppression tactics. Perhaps the most insidious of which is the under-allocation of resources in urban and AA areas for the sole purpose of creating long lines. Time is money, and lines are the new poll tax. We may laud the people dedicated enough to wait hours, but the fact is that far too many people just can't afford to.
The right to vote means the right to EASILY cast our ballots and have confidence our votes will be correctly counted.
The enemies of free and fair elections are well organized and powerful. We need a massive counter effort. Effective national media and fundraising. On the ground efforts in legislatures. Campaigns to expand universal mail in voting WITHOUT vote suppressing, and utterly unnecessary requirements like witnesses.
Each of us can help by pushing our leaders to act and pushing the organizations we belong to to make battling voter suppression a top priority! We can write letters to the editor condemning voter registration purges and any other tactics at work in our own states. We can awaken patriotic passion for defending our most basic right.
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