That legislation seeks to end gerrymandering of congressional districts, set mandates for early and mail-in voting and increase transparency in campaign financing.
Republicans have already blocked a separate sweeping elections and voting bill known as the For The People Act. Rodney Davis of Illinois described it Tuesday as a "partisan power grab which circumvents the people to ensure one-party rule." Politics Map: See Which States Have Restricted Voter Access, And Which States Have Expanded It Republicans have characterized the legislation as a federal overreach into the state's role in election processes. While the bill passed the House along party lines, with 219 Democrats in favor and all 212 Republicans opposed, it now faces steep GOP opposition in the evenly divided Senate. Its supporters say that would make it more difficult for states to restrict future voting access.
4, would strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had been weakened by a pair of Supreme Court rulings over the course of the last decade. And what we must do, as we did back in the '60s, is when we see states running amok, we need federal oversight."ĭemocrats say the bill, known as H.R. "I want you to know that the modern day barriers to voting are no less pernicious than those literacy tests and those poll taxes. Terri Sewell, who introduced the legislation. "Old battles have become new again," said Alabama Democratic Rep.
The bill is named for the Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who died last year. House lawmakers approved new legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote on Tuesday, amid a wave of restrictive new elections laws from Republican-controlled state legislatures. Civil rights leader Ben Jealous speaks at a voting rights rally outside the White House on Tuesday, ahead of a House vote to advance a bill named for the late Rep.
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