Returning To Teenage Roots, Clinton Lays Out Proposal To Expand Voting (Hillary Group)
Hillary Clinton called for universal, automatic voter registration Thursday, saying "every young man or young woman should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18" unless they choose to opt out.
She also called on all states to offer at least 20 days of early voting, to give as many people as possible a chance to cast ballots.
Speaking at Texas Southern University to receive a leadership award, Clinton blasted states, including Texas and Wisconsin that have reduced early voting in recent years.
"I call on Republicans at all levels of government with all manner of ambition to stop fear mongering about a phantom epidemic of election fraud and start explaining why they're so scared of letting citizens have their say," she said....
For Clinton, focusing on voting rights was something of a return to her roots. Her campaign points out that in 1972 she went to Texas to help register Latino voters.
But Clinton has been interested in voting rules since her earliest involvement in politics. Even at 13, she was incensed over what she saw as a distortion of democracy at the polls. And she was willing to do something about it, even then, flashing signs of the single-minded determination that even today inspires admiration in some and exasperation in others....
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/04/411986520/hillary-clintons-teenage-search-for-voter-fraud via NPR
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