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Voting Protections For the People
Our House of Representatives has recently passed HR 1, the “For the People Act,” and it is now in the Senate as S 1. Sometimes the name of a bill is intended to misrepresent the contents or gaslight the audience, but this one is real. It draws on the words of Abraham Lincoln, who described our democracy as “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” It contains a range of important and interrelated measures that will strengthen American democracy by increasing voter accessibility and will allow more Americans to let their…