Long story short: tell your Congressfolk to pass the Right to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Use the tools in the upper right-hand corner of this page (or, if you're on a cellphone, the bottom of this page) to find your Congressfolk's phone numbers and/or use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs.
RISE helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the Right to Vote Act, which would establish a right to vote in law and thus make it harder for states to pass laws suppressing voting rights. Do you get tired of right-wing smartypantses saying TEH CONSTITUSHUNZ HAZ NO RIGHTZ TO VOTEZ HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!? I know I do! And of course they’re wrong – the 15th Amendment says “(t)he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” which, ha ha, means there’s a right to vote. But let’s at least make right-wingers come up with some new line of BS. They’ll just get dumber and dumber.
Common Cause helps you tell your Congressfolk to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would plug the hole in the Voting Rights Act our Supreme Court blew open in their notorious Shelby County v. Holder ruling. They said, essentially, that since more Blacks vote in the South now, the Voting Rights Act now unfairly discriminated against Southern states by singling them out for having their voting rights laws pre-cleared by our Justice Department. This bill would fix that error, such as it is, by subjecting any state or locality, from any region, with a history of vote suppression to submit to Justice Department scrutiny. So we ought to do that.
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