Highlights of HR1, For the People

Here is a quick snapshot and some highlights, broken down by the three key issue sections of the bill.

Protecting and expanding voting rights and election security:

Automatic voter registration
Online voter registration
Same day voter registration
Make election day a federal holiday
Voting rights restoration to people with prior felony convictions
Expand early voting and simplify absentee voting
Prohibit voter purges that kick eligible voters off the registration rolls
Enhance election security with increase support for a paper-based voting system and more oversight over election vendors
End partisan gerrymandering by established independent redistricting commissions
Prohibit providing false information about the elections process that discourage voting and other deceptive practices

Reduce the influence of big money in our politics:

Require secret money organizations that spend money in elections to disclose their donors
Upgrade online political spending transparency rules to ensure voters know who is paying for the advertisements they see
Create a small donor-focused public financing matching system so candidates for Congress aren’t just reliant on big money donors to fund their campaigns and set their priorities
Strengthen oversight rules to ensure those who break our campaign finance laws are held accountable
Overhaul the Federal Election Commission to enforce campaign finance law
Prohibit the use of shell companies to funnel foreign money in U.S. elections
Require government contractors to disclose their political spending

Ensure an ethical government accountable to the people:

Slow the revolving door between government officials and lobbyists
Expand conflict of interest law
Ban members of Congress from serving on corporate boards
Require presidents to publicly disclose their tax returns
Overhaul the Office of Government Ethics to ensure stronger enforcement of ethics rules
Require members of the U.S. Supreme Court abide by a judicial code of ethics