모든 미국인은 피부색, 배경, 우편번호에 관계없이 투표할 자유를 누릴 자격이 있지만, 많은 주에서 그 자유가 위협받고 있습니다. 오늘 상원에 발의된 존 R. 루이스 투표권 증진법은 팬데믹 퇴치부터 일자리 창출, 의료비 부담 완화에 이르기까지 우리 삶에 영향을 미치는 결정에 투표하고 의견을 제시할 모든 미국인의 자유를 보호할 것입니다.

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act has already been passed by the House, and it is critical that the Senate follow suit. The legislation will repair much of the damage done to the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts. In concert with the Freedom to Vote Act, this legislation will curb the coordinated effort by Republican state legislatures across the country to silence Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian American Pacific Islander voters who showed up to vote in the 2020 elections in record numbers. Already this year, 19 states have enacted 33 restrictive voting bills 이로 인해 미국인이 선출된 지도자를 선택하는 데 있어 의견을 내는 것이 더 어려워졌습니다.

Voting rights should never be a partisan issue, and for decades it wasn’t. Many current GOP Senators have backed strong voting rights protections in the past. In fact, ten current Republican Senators voted for the Voting Rights Act reauthorization when it passed the Senate 98-0 in 2006 only one week after it was passed by the House. If 10 Senate Republicans will not support this bill, then Senate Democrats must reform the filibuster. Every American deserves the freedom to vote and that freedom must be protected by our elected leaders. Now is the time they must do so by passing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act.