Issues
ELECTORAL REFORM:
Free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy. In the last year, millions of new voters registered and went to the polls. Yet, thousands upon thousands of Americans still fear that when they walk into the polls to vote that their vote will not be counted, or they will lose the opportunity to vote at all, because they are forced to stand in line for hoursdue to a shortage of machines or they will be turned away from voting all together.
Faulty voting machines have no place in the greatest democracy on earth.
Barriers to voting are an insult to the freest, greatest nation in the
world.
I'm working with my colleagues, Senators Clinton and Boxer, Congresswoman
Tubbs Jones and Congressman Conyers, and the nation's leading civil rights
groups to advance comprehensive election reform.
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Congress must take action to ensure all Americans have faith in future elections that the votes they stood in line to cast are counted.
But to make it happen, we need our Republican colleagues to make protecting voting rights a priority and to put election reform legislation on the legislative calendar this year. Congress must keep its promise and fully fund the Help America Vote Act, fund the activities of the Election Assistance Commission, and help states invest in better voting machines with paper trails.
We must put party politics aside and join together as proud American citizens to eliminate barriers to voting, encourage the greatest level of civic participation possible, and restore confidence in the notion that every eligible voter will have the opportunity to cast a ballot and have it count.
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