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A Voting Rights Bill That Could Actually Pass
March 16, 2021 at 8:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/16/a-voting-rights-bill-that-could-actually-pass/
"SNIP.....
Rick Hasen writes that HR 1the major Democratic voting rights and elections bill that already passed the Houselikely wouldnt pass in the Senate even if there were no filibuster.
This mammoth bill has little chance of being enacted. But a more pinpointed law, including one restoring a key part of the Voting Rights Act, could make it out of the Senate to guarantee voting rights protections for all in the 2022 and 2024 elections.
His four main tenets in such a pinpointed bill are:
Restore preclearance provisions of the VRA.
Voting rights protections like early voting periods.
End partisan gerrymandering with commissions.
Paper ballots and election security measures.
......SNIP"
jorgevlorgan
(8,329 posts)If a pinpointed bill is necessary then so be it, but this bill is long past due.
applegrove
(118,778 posts)jorgevlorgan
(8,329 posts)Now just restoring those parts of the vra we lost would be incredible.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,656 posts)This fight is just beginning- just wait until summer, when thousands of vaccinated activists can March in the streets, especially in WV and AZ...