Democrats cannot give up on voting reform. The nation can’t afford it.

[BidenPresident]

Democrats could press standards that no one committed to democracy could legitimately oppose. These include simple measures to promote access to the ballot box, such as requiring early voting, making Election Day a holiday or allowing people to cast provisional ballots if they show up to the wrong precinct. Democrats could also pursue important reforms that they did not put into the For the People Act, but that the 2020 election showed were necessary.

These include rewriting the archaic Electoral Count Act to ensure that Congress may not overturn free and fair voting results. Another idea is to erect safeguards against meddling in election results by state officials or state legislatures.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...racy-is-stake/

[BidenPresident]

"Yet Republicans on Tuesday did not simply reject the For the People Act — they unanimously nixed the idea of even bringing it up for debate. Mr. Manchin had already proposed his compromise plan, raising the prospect that Republicans could help shape the legislation on the Senate floor, and they rejected his invitation."