Tell Your Representative to Support the Voting Rights Advancement Act

From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org):

If we don’t speak out now, millions of Americans could lose their voice in our democracy.

That’s because right now, vote-suppressing politicians have nearly free rein to pass dangerous, discriminatory, anti-voter laws. Purging legitimate voter registrations… strict voter ID requirements… cuts to polling hours and early voting… they’re using every dirty trick in the book to silence us.

Here’s how we stop them: the Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 4). This bill would restore the vital national protections against voter discrimination that we lost when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013. And, it’d stop politicians from rigging our elections and targeting voters.

We must make sure our representatives know we expect them to support this groundbreaking bill. Tell yours now at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/protect-voters-nationwide-with-the-voting-rights-advancement-act: defend our rights by voting YES on the Voting Rights Advancement Act >>

For nearly five decades, the Voting Rights Act — one of our nation’s proudest civil rights achievements — protected eligible voters from being silenced. It stopped thousands of dangerous and often racist laws from taking effect by requiring states and counties with a history of discrimination to get federal approval for new voting laws.

But the Supreme Court gutted that requirement in a 5-4 decision, inviting power-hungry politicians to attack voters’ rights and pass new laws that never would’ve stood up to that review.

Since then, we’ve seen vote suppressors take advantage in state after state — with voter purges in Georgia, needlessly strict voter ID laws in North Carolina and Texas, and more… blocking voters from being heard in our democracy.

Our right to vote is on the line. Tell the U.S. House to pass the Voting Rights Advancement Act and defend our democracy!

The Voting Rights Advancement Act is a new, updated Voting Rights Act that would protect voters from discriminatory laws, needless barriers, and partisan dirty tricks. And before the 2020 elections — when experts are predicting record turnout — we must make sure it gets Congress’ approval.