The #FreedomToVoteAct & #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct are bills to protect our elections.
Know what’s in the bill! 📜🗳
🤯 You will be SHOCKED if your Senators won’t support this common sense.
Here’s quick break down:
Know what’s in the bill! 📜🗳
🤯 You will be SHOCKED if your Senators won’t support this common sense.
Here’s quick break down:
#FreedomToVoteAct includes
🐣2 weeks of early voting, including nights and weekends, for towns over 3000 people
📬 Vote by mail
🗳 dropping ballots at polling places or dropboxes
🎊making Election Day a holiday
💳 uniform Voter ID laws for all states that require it
🐣2 weeks of early voting, including nights and weekends, for towns over 3000 people
📬 Vote by mail
🗳 dropping ballots at polling places or dropboxes
🎊making Election Day a holiday
💳 uniform Voter ID laws for all states that require it
#FreedomToVoteAct
🗣 makes it a crime to lie to voters to deter them from voting
💰increases penalties for voter intimidation
⚖️ restores voting rights to people who have served time
⏳ requires no one has to wait more than 30 minutes to vote
🗣 makes it a crime to lie to voters to deter them from voting
💰increases penalties for voter intimidation
⚖️ restores voting rights to people who have served time
⏳ requires no one has to wait more than 30 minutes to vote
#FreedomToVoteAct
📙provides uniform voter registration rules
🚙 establishes automatic voter registration at DMV
📋 permits same day registration
💻 allows on line registration
🗑 requires notification if you are purged from the voter roll, and info for how to get back on
📙provides uniform voter registration rules
🚙 establishes automatic voter registration at DMV
📋 permits same day registration
💻 allows on line registration
🗑 requires notification if you are purged from the voter roll, and info for how to get back on
#FreedomToVoteAct
🦹🏼♀️ says any entity spending over $10,000 must disclose donors
🥷🏻 advertisements must say who paid for them
🏋🏽♂️ strengthens the Federal Election Commission to ensure campaigns are run legally
🧑🏽🏫 protects election officials from intimidation
🦹🏼♀️ says any entity spending over $10,000 must disclose donors
🥷🏻 advertisements must say who paid for them
🏋🏽♂️ strengthens the Federal Election Commission to ensure campaigns are run legally
🧑🏽🏫 protects election officials from intimidation
#FreedomToVoteAct
💵 expands penalties for ballot tampering after election
👩🏻💻requires audits after elections with defined rules and procedures
🔖 says voting machines must have a paper trail
💵 expands penalties for ballot tampering after election
👩🏻💻requires audits after elections with defined rules and procedures
🔖 says voting machines must have a paper trail
The #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
📑 DOJ must approve changes to voting laws for states with voting rights violations. (This was law from 1965 to 2013)
🧑🏾⚖️ Allows voters to sue if their voting rights are violated
📍Requires a polling place on tribal lands & states accept tribal IDs
📑 DOJ must approve changes to voting laws for states with voting rights violations. (This was law from 1965 to 2013)
🧑🏾⚖️ Allows voters to sue if their voting rights are violated
📍Requires a polling place on tribal lands & states accept tribal IDs
Do your Senators support these common sense measures?
☎️ Call and ask them.
Here’s the Senate directory, just choose your state, and it will give you Senators’ office phone number. senate.gov/senators/senat…
☎️ Call and ask them.
Here’s the Senate directory, just choose your state, and it will give you Senators’ office phone number. senate.gov/senators/senat…
Hat tip to @HC_Richardson who’s amazing newsletter
‘Letters from an American’
is where I learned all this. You can read it or subscribe here heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-12-2…
‘Letters from an American’
is where I learned all this. You can read it or subscribe here heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-12-2…
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