Common Cause is urging every member of the U.S. Senate to vote to begin debate on the Freedom to Vote Act when the Senate considers the legislation later this week.  The thưnhấn mạnh rằng ngay trong năm nay, 19 states have enacted 33 restrictive voting laws khiến người Mỹ – đặc biệt là trong cộng đồng người da đen và da nâu – khó có thể có tiếng nói trong việc lựa chọn các nhà lãnh đạo được bầu của họ. Bức thư cũng lưu ý rằng Common Cause có kế hoạch bỏ phiếu quan trọng cho luật này trong Bảng điểm dân chủ, mà chúng tôi gửi tới 1,5 triệu thành viên của mình.

“Americans ủng hộ áp đảo the Freedom to Vote Act because they believe that every one of us should have the freedom to vote so that we all have an equal say in the future for our family and community, regardless of our age, our political party, our background, or our zip code,” said Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn. “The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted the Voting Rights Act, and a number of states have taken full advantage by erecting barriers to make it harder for many of their residents to vote – particularly in Black and Brown communities. Congress must step in to stop this injustice just as it did to combat the Jim Crow laws by passing the original Voting Rights Act in 1965. Some states have passed laws to create a new Jim Crow era and this cannot stand.”

The letter stresses the need for both the Senate and the House to pass the measure as well as the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Ten current Senate Republicans voted for the reauthorization of the original Voting Rights Act when it passed the Senate 98-0 in 2006. The original Voting Rights Act was extended and amended five times by Congress with strong bipartisan support and each of those five bills was signed into law by a Republican president.

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