A Former Republican FEC Chair Just Called For Democrats To Pass Voting Rights

Former Republican Federal Election Commission Chair and existent Campaign Legal Center President, Trevor Potter called connected Senate Democrats to walk voting rights.

Potter said successful a connection provided to PoliticusUSA:

I, similar galore of you, americium anxious to spot what volition hap connected the Senate level starting today. With the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act (H.R. 5746), the U.S. Senate has an accidental to necessitate a strong, escaped and just voting strategy successful this state and guarantee the quality for each American to enactment successful safe, accessible and transparent elections.

In the twelvemonth since the 2020 elections, which saw record-breaking elector turnout, galore states crossed our state person responded to that turnout by passing caller laws designed to marque it harder for immoderate citizens to vote.

In response, the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act has been crafted to instrumentality important measures aimed astatine strengthening our democracy. It aims to execute goals that person agelong had bipartisan enactment and are viewed favorably by a bulk of Americans. These goals see prohibiting gerrymandering, expanding disclosure of wealth spent successful national elections, protecting the state to ballot and warring predetermination sabotage by protecting the independency of predetermination officials.

These basal improvements to our predetermination strategy should ne'er person go partisan issues. But successful the Senate, with the chamber’s existent structure, that is what they person become.

It is truthful critically important that the Senate statesman statement connected H.R. 5746 this afternoon. It is besides important that Senators instrumentality the clip to publically sermon and statement this measure that specified a important taxable requires. For acold excessively long, these measures person languished owed to obstruction by governmental actors who disregard the calls of their constituents arsenic they adhere to different loyalties.

What this measure deserves and what the American radical merit is simply a afloat and honorable statement connected the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.

Senate Republicans Can’t Hide AsVoting Rights Will Finally Be Debated In The Senate

Senate Republicans person obstructed statement connected voting rights authorities since the Supreme Court’s Shelby determination successful 2013.  Due to immoderate savvy procedural maneuvers by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer, Senate Republicans tin nary longer fell their absorption to voting by obstructing debate.

The statement itself is simply a large measurement and a motion of existent advancement connected the issue. No 1 is definite what regularisation changes to the filibuster Majority Leader Schumer is readying to propose, but 1 should not place the value of the information that Republicans are going to person to basal up successful beforehand of the satellite and reason democracy.

Republicans Are Failing America On Voting Rights

The mainstream media has fto Republicans disconnected of the hook connected voting rights. They absorption connected the Democrats and the filibuster without ever placing immoderate work for the nonaccomplishment to walk voting rights authorities connected Republicans.

Not a azygous Senate Republican supports voting rights. 

All 50 Democrats enactment the Freedom To Vote Act And the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

As Mr. Potter’s connection indicates, determination is bipartisan enactment for voting rights, but the mainstream property doesn’t speech astir that portion of the story.

A erstwhile Republican FEC Chair says we request to walk voting rights, and you won’t perceive oregon work a azygous connection of it successful firm media, due to the fact that the mainstream outlets would alternatively screen for Republicans than archer Americans the information astir who is really obstructing fashionable voting rights legislation.