You may have read that the Freedom to Vote Act, national legislation to combat voter suppression (placing barriers to voting which often discriminate against certain groups such as African-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, young voters and disabled voters) and electoral subversion (laws that intend to overturn election results by empowering partisan politicians over professional and competent election administrators in counting votes and certifying results) was prevented from being passed by Republicans in the senate. Unfortunately, due to the senate filibuster rules there is no chance it will pass the senate without a reform or carve out of the filibuster rules.
After you read it, you may want to contact your senator to voice your support for the bill. Our democracy depends on it.
Before you contact your senator be sure to review the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act if you agree that potential voter suppression laws should be pre-cleared by the Attorney General of the United States or the U.S. District Court in D.C. Then you need to call or email your senator to support this additional important piece of legislation that honors American voting rights and civil rights hero John Lewis. Your senator works for you. Tell her/him your opinions. NOW.
Vote. Learn about your voice. Vote. Learn about your power. Richard C. Bell Speaks to Kate Daniels On Sunday Morning Magazine 10/24/21
Richard Bell is a New York City civil rights attorney, deeply passionate about voting. He’s the author of Voting: The Ultimate Act of Resistance. He helps citizens whose voting rights have been obstructed. And he’s created a great tutorial, a series of 10 lessons about voting: ‘It’s Voting for Beginners’ and it’s great to use with students, and any one of us voting adults can still learn something…not the least of which is…our right and responsibility to exercise this freedom.
Richard C. Bell, Esq. is talking VotingForBeginners.com & National Voter Registration Day 2021 on This Morning with Gordon Deal www.ThisMorningwithGordonDeal.com @ThisMorningShow @GordonDeal #NationalVoterRegistrationDay