This is huge! Nancy Pelosi announces that House Dems' stimulus bill will include billions in grant funding for the states & requirements that they have 15 days of early voting, no-excuse absentee mail voting, & mailing all voters a ballot in emergencies speaker.gov/newsroom/32320 
Congress must act immediately to ensure we can still hold November's elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. This map shows which states vote by mail & which ones still require excuses for absentee mail ballots. The latter must change to protect voters
NEW: House Democrats unveil a stimulus package that includes billions in funding for universal mail voting, no-excuse absentee voting, & 15 days of early voting. Democrats must insist that any stimulus package ensures our elections can still take place dailykos.com/story/2020/3/2…
Trump realizes that his re-election chances are tightly tied to the state of the economy, which gives Democrats the leverage to demand election protection measures in exchange for supporting fiscal stimulus. We can't solve the coronavirus pandemic without securing our democracy
The bill also includes provisions requiring online & same-day voter registration be available in every state. 10 states still don't fully allow online voter registration, & that must change immediately so our elections proceed amid coronavirus
Republicans don’t want people to vote. This is why Democrats must insist that no stimulus measures pass without ensuring we can safely hold elections. Otherwise, a constitutional crisis on top of the coronavirus pandemic would be a catastrophe for public health & the economy too
Forget about Congress for a second, & you'll see that the push for universal mail voting amid the coronavirus emergency has bipartisan support. These are Republican state officials backing this in Ohio. We can't have fair elections if millions can't vote
Update: The election funding part of this is $4 billion. That's a drop in the bucket compared to the nearly $2 trillion in overall stimulus that Congress could pass, & it's well worth it to ensure democracy can still proceed dailykos.com/stories/2020/3…
Additional provisions include same-day & online voter registration, prepaid postage on mail ballots, mail ballot tracking for voters, ballots count so long as they're postmarked by Election Day, & Native American voter protections assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6817…
Full text below of the proposal mentioned up thread. Dems included $4 billion for the states to pass mail voting, online voter registration, & other measures to ensure we can still safely hold elections in November
