Voting Rights Briefing [View all]

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In a speech in Houston today, Hillary Clinton laid out her vision for how to expand access to the ballot box for all Americans and how to defend against Republican assaults on voting rights.

She specifically focused on protecting and expanding the franchise of young and minority voters, seniors, and other underrepresented groups disproportionately impacted by harmful Republican efforts to restrict voting.

•She called for universal, automatic voter registration, where every citizen in every state in the union would be automatically registered to vote when they turn eighteen – unless they actively choose to opt out.

•She called for a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting in every state, including opportunities for weekend and evening voting.

•Additionally, she called for: ◦Congress to move quickly to pass legislation to repair the damage to the Voting Rights Act done by the Supreme Court in 2013; and,
◦Implementation of the recommendations of the President’s bipartisan presidential commission to improve voting, which includes expanding early, absentee, and mail voting, providing online voter registration, and establishing the principle that no one should ever have to wait more than 30 minutes to vote.

Much more at link.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/the-briefing/fact-sheet-voting-rights/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=20150604briefing_votingrights