Senate: As you modernize the Electoral Count Act, Protect Voting Rights

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Tell Your Senators:

As They Modernize The Electoral Count Act, Protect Voting Rights

Attention in the Senate is flowing towards an effort to modernize or overhaul the Electoral Count Act (ECA). And it has the green shoots of bipartisan collaboration among at least 15 Senators. Will they address any of the substantive dysfunction and inequity the prior efforts sought to address? Will they wrestle with the interconnected whole or complexity?

As Senators look at the ECA, they must look closely at what elements from the previous bill can be included in the new effort, in particular, elements from the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R.4).

U.S. Senators

Subject: As you modernize the Electoral Count Act, Protect Voting Rights

Message:

I am writing to you to express my sincere disappointment that the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act did not pass in the Senate on January 19th. I’m also urging you to look closely at the Electoral Count Act and determine what elements from H.R.5746 can be included in that modernization effort, in particular, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R.4). The right to vote is fundamental to our lives as U.S. citizens and voting should be easy to do for everyone. Gerrymandering and dark money corrupt our democracy and need to be eliminated. We must have legislation at the federal level to ensure that all 50 states are following a fair and unbiased election process. There are certainly states in the country that have good and secure approaches to voting and are working to make them better, but this is not the case in all states. According to the Brennan Center, as of January 14, legislators in at least 27 states have introduced, pre-filed, or carried over 250 bills with restrictive provisions, and legislators in at least 13 states have pre-filed and introduced 41 bills that would undermine the electoral process. For our democracy to work properly we need to have uniform standards. Citizens in states where their votes are being suppressed, or their districts are gerrymandered, are not fairly represented in Congress, and that violates the fundamental principle of representative democracy. On the plus side, we can take something good from the Senate events of January 19. It was a positive experience to see the senators on both sides actually have a discussion and debate on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. Arguments were made on both sides that were important to hear, but there was no effort to reach a consensus. The Senate must do better than this. It is currently failing all of us. Legislation critical to the successful future of our country is lying fallow in the Senate graveyard. My request is both simple and difficult. I want you to work across the aisle to pass important democracy legislation, without dropping what is needed. Without shirking the interconnected nuance of the issues. Your country expects this of you. Please don’t disappoint us.

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