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Trump's next attack on democracy: mass voter suppression

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Rather than voter ID laws that disenfranchise certain demographics, a new Voting Rights Act could set a national ID standard, granting maximum flexibility to voters. It could also ban felony disenfranchisement in national elections and require publication of new electoral changes to help educate voters.

The options are there to strengthen our democracy and truly protect "one person, one vote." Instead, this commission appears intent on nationalizing the Republican party's strategy of "one Anglo-Saxon, financially successful person, one vote."

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