House passes bill to fight voter ID laws across the United States
The House of Representatives passed a bill to undermine state voter ID laws on Friday by a mostly party-line vote of 228-187. H.R. 4 — also called the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 — is an effort by House Democrats to restore preclearance provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were thrown out by the Supreme Court in the 2013 ruling on Shelby County v. Holder. It seeks to do this by updating the preclearance formula that the high court rejected..............
......“Action is urgently needed to combat the brazen voter suppression campaign that is spreading across America,†Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said said at a press conference ahead of the vote. “We must, we must restore the strength of the voting rights act.â€.........
.........And while the bill’s proponents portray it as an effort to protect voting rights, conservatives criticized the measure as undermining efforts to combat voter fraud by exerting more federal government control over state and local election practices.
“This bill would essentially, federalize state and local election laws when there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that those states or localities engaged in any discriminatory behavior when it comes to voting,†said top House Judiciary Committee Republican Rep. Doug Collins, Ga., in a statement sent out ahead of the vote.......
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