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Election Reform for Serious People

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Voting Rights - Vote Rights Bill

Voting rights, the specific piece of legislation has a broad range of speech squelching provisions that prevent well meaning groups of average americans from engaging more directly in a free wheeling political process. In this bill, or campaign finance and campaign limitations that run right into the first amendment,. You also have areas we haven't talked about, redistricting and jury mandering. But they are presenting a set of rules in here that are very, that ought to be very controversial. They are prescribing states standards for registraton based on proportional representation type outcomes which is not something that most states, liberal or conservative, choose to pursue, on their own. It would replace local option with federal prescription

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