#voting-rights

#voting-rights

"Under the guise of addressing a non-existent voter fraud problem, this bill would create onerous restrictions. Simply put: this would establish a 21st century poll tax, and it cannot be allowed to move forward."

Under the guise of addressing a non-existent voter fraud problem, this bill would create onerous restrictions. The coalition wrote, warning the proposal would impose new financial and bureaucratic hurdles. They described the measure as a "21st-century poll tax."

It's so important when women's rights are under attack, to oppose fascism in all its forms and demand the Trump regime must go. Women like freedom.

[Republicans are] not redistricting and or redrawing these new red lines because our f**king vote doesn't matter,

If there is something about protecting women' in the title, for example, then it's probably actually about controlling women or bullying transgender people. The same is true of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (Save) Act, which would change the way US citizens register to vote. The purpose of the bill doesn't seem to be to safeguard democracy but to help destroy it through stealth disenfranchisement.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has said nearly 10 million people could see their democratic right to vote "ripped away" if proposed delays to some local elections in England go ahead. Sir Ed has written to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to ask if it will investigate what he called "the government's cavalier approach to our elections". Last week, the government indicated it would agree to postpone polls if local authorities requested it by mid-January.