The #FreedomToVoteAct’s provisions for automatic & same day voter registration are also crucial to election security bc voter registration systems & electronic poll books (used at the polls to confirm voter registrations) are very vulnerable to hacking! 2/ politico.com/news/2020/08/3…
The #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct is another piece of crucial legislation, as it would require pre-clearance (for states with established histories of discriminatory election practices) as to future laws affecting voting rights. 4/ congress.gov/bill/117th-con…
I believe the #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct could help with future efforts to give shift power over certifying election results to state legislatures, which is something Republican-led legislatures seem keen to do. 5/
🔥BREAKING: “Harvard’s Larry Lessig joins student hunger strike calling for action on voting rights… ‘The threat is that this election [in 2022] will cement the U.S. as a minoritarian democracy,’ Prof Lessig told The Independent in an interview.” 8/ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
The #FreedomToVoteAct wld provide a needed remedy to voters who have been improperly purged from voter rolls (remember the bogus purge in 2000 & hacked voter registration systems in 2016?) by allowing Election Day registration & requiring that states offer provisional ballots. 1/
2/ The bogus voter purge in 2000 improperly removed up to 12k voters from the rolls in the decisive state of Florida, which Bush won by only 537 votes. Rs have embraced broad purges ever since.
3/ Remember??? Thirty-seven states “reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems…In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.” 6/13/17 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It’s been more than 20 years since a faulty felon list caused the state of Florida to erroneously purge up to 12,023 voters in a presidential election that Bush won by only 537 votes in the Sunshine State. The GOP has embraced broad voter purges ever since. 1/
The #FreedomToVoteAct would curb such abuse by providing specific criteria that must be met before removing voters from the voter rolls (failure to return a postcard won’t suffice unless it’s returned as undeliverable) & implementing automatic & same day voter registration. 2/
The screenshot in post 1 is an excerpt from my draft book. 3/
😳Why is US media ignoring the college students who are on a hunger strike until the #FreedomToVoteAct passes?! Why do we have to get this news from the UK (Guardian & Independent)?! I interviewed 3 of the strikers yesterday. They are now on day 9. 1/
WTAF?! @POTUS just hosted a "democracy summit" and yet no one in his administration has reached out to these college students & others who are on a hunger strike in DC, literally starving, to persuade him to prioritize the #FreedomToVoteAct. What is going on?! cc: @LetsUnpac 1/
Where has the US media been?! If it weren't for @Guardian and @Independent, both UK publications, I would not have heard of these college students and their hunger strike for voting rights. The absence of mainstream American coverage is disgraceful. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…
😥"Words don't even describe," college student Georgia Linden told me when I asked how she and the other hunger strikers felt about the Biden administration's failure thus far to reach out to them to discuss prioritizing the #FreedomToVoteAct. 3/
🔥BREAKING: “Harvard’s Larry Lessig joins student hunger strike calling for action on voting rights… ‘The threat is that this election [in 2022] will cement the US as a minoritarian democracy,’ Prof Lessig told The Independent in an interview.” @lessig 1/ independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…