Andrew Yang Policy on RESTORATION OF VOTING RIGHTS

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7. Elizabeth Warren on Voting Rights

Elizabeth Warren calls for a ‘right to vote’

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.

“I believe we need a constitutional amendment that protects the right to vote for every American citizen and to make sure that vote gets counted,” Warren said. “We need to put some federal muscle behind that and we need to repeal every one of the voter suppression laws that is out there right now.”

A “right to vote” amendment has gained traction in recent years, in part due to the 2013 Supreme Court decision that struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

https://thinkprogress.org/warren-town-hall-right-to-vote-70987b9ddbbf/