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Ari Berman
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House Dems first bill introduced today includes:

-Automatic voter registration

-Nationwide early voting

-Public financing of elections

-End to Congressional gerrymandering

-Release of presidential tax returns

This is huge for democracy

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
House Dems first bill also includes:

Nationwide Election Day registration

Restores voting rights to ex-felons

Stops voter purging

Paper ballots for states

Disclosure of dark $ donors

This is most important democracy reform bill since Watergate

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
.@repjohnlewis says GOP voter suppression efforts in states like GA & FL tipped close races in 2018. "I truly believe the way votes were not counted & purged in states like Georgia and Florida changed the outcome of the last election. That must never happen again in our country."
House Dems introduced most important democracy reform bill since Watergate today as their top legislative priority. I bet it will get 1/1000000th of media coverage of "impeach the motherfucker" comment motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Ari Berman
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Voter suppression tainted @staceyabrams race against Brian Kemp:

-1.5 million purged

-53k registrations on hold

-4.5 hour lines

-214 polling places closed

-Candidate overseeing own election

Voting rights will be major theme of her SOTU response

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Good chance @staceyabrams would be giving this speech as governor of GA not private citizen if it wasn’t for GOP voter suppression
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Ari Berman
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How bout Mitch McConnell also resigns for this
How bout Republicans who support racist voter suppression laws also resign
How bout Steve King, a literal white supremacist in Congress, also resigns
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Ari Berman
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Very telling that Mitch McConnell, who's devoted his career to subverting democracy, is leading opposition to Dems democracy reform bill. He's admitting Republicans lose when more people vote motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Paul Weyrich 1980: "I don't want everybody to vote. Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Mitch McConnell 2019: Making Election Day a national holiday is "power grab" for Democrats
For the record, 65% Americans support making Election Day national holiday

Voting on Tuesday in November totally antiquated concept. Most democracies vote on weekends when far more convenient pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…
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