Jon Ossoff Takes a Stand: Will Introduce “Right to Vote Act” in the Senate

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) announced that helium volition present the “Right to Vote Act” successful the Senate.

The authorities would make a statutory close to ballot successful elections, would forestall states from limiting the close to ballot without justification, and guarantee that each ballot is counted. It has received the endorsement of Fair Fight Action, and the ACLU Voting Project.

Ossoff said helium encourages activists “to support pushing due to the fact that the close to ballot is fundamental.”

“People bled and died to unafraid it,” helium added. “There does not beryllium successful U.S. instrumentality an affirmative warrant of the close to vote, and truthful the Right to Vote Act, which I’m introducing this week, establishes that affirmative warrant of voting rights. It holds that immoderate American national tin situation a authorities instrumentality which diminishes oregon restricts the close to vote, which makes it harder to vote, and necessitate immoderate authorities successful our national to warrant those restrictions with circumstantial intent and justification and to show that it is the slightest restrictive means to achieving their ends.”

Ossoff noted that the Right to Vote Act “may determination arsenic portion of a broader measure,” supporting the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.

Above all, the authorities would “establish that each American has the close to ballot and “any authorities that would impair, restrict oregon trim it indispensable beryllium held to the highest modular and that American citizens tin instrumentality them to court.”

Ossoff said the Biden medication is committed to securing and protecting voting rights and encouraged activists and grassroots organizers “to proceed to propulsion Congress and to proceed to propulsion each of america present to beforehand national authorities that volition unafraid the franchise successful the look of authorities legislatures crossed the state that are restricting entree to the ballot for purely partisan ends connected the ground of [ex-President] Donald Trump’s lies astir the past election.”

You tin ticker his interrogation successful the video below.

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