Many exciting things in Dems' updated federal voting rights bill.
Including online, automatic, and same-day voter registration mandates.
Another big measure: restoring voting rights to anyone who is not presently incarcerated. Would affect millions.
Including online, automatic, and same-day voter registration mandates.
Another big measure: restoring voting rights to anyone who is not presently incarcerated. Would affect millions.
https://twitter.com/hill_charlotte/status/1349398704562728960
There's important organizing around the important idea of eliminating disenfranchisement altogether.
But the fact that Dems are coalescing so clearly around the idea that anyone not incarcerated should vote is itself recent, & a huge deal. 4 states got that done in 2019/2020.
But the fact that Dems are coalescing so clearly around the idea that anyone not incarcerated should vote is itself recent, & a huge deal. 4 states got that done in 2019/2020.
(That's why I said it was so disappointing earlier this week for the VA governor to propose felony disenfranchisement reform that would not at least enfranchise everyone not in prison: It leaves many behind, *and* in a way that's far from the mainstream politics of the moment.)
The federal fillibuster stands in the way of these changes that'd enable basic democratic functionining.
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