In surveys, a majority of Republican voters support the reforms included in the For the People Act. The House will vote on it this week.
On Sunday night, a disgruntled Florida Man could be found hollering about how the election in which he got 7 million fewer votes than his opponent was somehow stolen from him. Naturally, at this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference, he and plenty of others railed against a bill currently making its way through Congress that would actually do something to shore up the health of that republic.
H.R. 1, the For the People Act, is set for a vote in the House of Representatives this week. Title one of the bill is the John Lewis Voter Empowerment Act, which would create automatic voter registration across the country, expand early and absentee voting, restore voting rights for felons, streamline the vote-by-mail process, and more. The bill also takes on partisan gerrymandering, which drives polarization and dysfunction in Congress, granting the power to draw congressional districts to independent commissions rather than party leaders who stand to benefit from hyper-partisan maps. The legislation takes on dark money and big money in our elections, introducing more transparency to the question of who—including big corporate entities—is spending millions to get people elected. It seeks to break the influence economy in Washington by introducing lobbying reforms.
When polled on these ideas, large swathes of the American republic support them. Sixty-eight percent expressed support for the package in one recent survey, including 57 percent of Republicans. So naturally, this is how Donald Trump—drainer of swamps, fighter for the common man—described the bill on Sunday night.
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