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“Today, now, in the 21st century, there is a concerted nationwide effort to limit the right of American citizens to vote and to truly have a voice in their own government. Instead of doing what you should be doing when you lose an election in a democracy — attempting to win over those voters in the next election — Republicans, instead, are trying to disenfranchise those voters. Shame on them. Some of these voter suppression laws in Georgia and other Republican states smack of Jim Crow rearing its ugly head once again. If one political party believes that when you lose an election, the answer isn’t to win more votes, but rather to try and prevent the other side from voting, we have an existential threat to democracy on our hands. That is why the country so badly needs S.1, a bill that would combat all of these voter suppression efforts.” “This is a solution in search of a problem. Turnout in 2020 was up 7 percent. The turnout in the 2020 election was the highest since 1900. States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever. This is clearly an effort by one party to rewrite the rules of our political system. Now, we’ve just seen two consecutive presidential elections, 2016 and 2020, where chunks of Americans on both the left and the right took turns refusing to accept the result when their side lost. We can’t afford to go further down this road. We should be finding ways to rebuild trust, not destroy it further. But that’s exactly what a partisan power grab would guarantee.”