Issue Position: Voter Rights

Issue Position

*Provide that the sole criteria for voter registration and regulation of persons registering voters in the U.S. shall be by regulations set by the Federal Elections Commission

*Extend the Voting Rights Act Section 5 pre-approval process to all electing jurisdictions; add the 2012 disenfranchise states to Section 5 of the voting rights act

*Outlaw the imposition of any requirement for registering to vote other than the unsupported declaration under penalty of perjury that the person registering is eligible to vote / ban the increasing state-level insistance on government-issued photo-IDs for voting, limits on student voting, and limits on same-day registration / adopt registration-friendly rules for voter registration drives

*Define as a "poll tax" any photo-ID requirement for voting, any candidate filing fee, any candidate party endorsement application fee

*Provide for "early voting" in all jurisdictions

*Provide that every polling place that accumulates a waiting line of more than one hour on election day shall be open for voting the next day regardless of the day of the week that would be.

*Support Hillary Clinton's Count Every Vote Act of 2005 S. 450

*Consider adding to all elections the option for a voter to make his/her vote a public vote rather than a secret vote to aid in testing and reducing vote-recording and counting fraud such as that as has been alleged in Ohio in 2004.

*Provide that any multi-jurisdictional campaign to interfere with the electoral franchise shall be prosecutable under RICO and related statutes, including those efforts using a sham excuse of preventing voter fraud

*Support HR 5799 - Voter Empowerment Act of 2012, by Rep. John Lewis of Georgia to reverse ALEC Jim Crow laws, H.R. 12 2013-14

*Support Attorney General Holder's proposal for automatic voter registration of all citizens; make voting a right to be taken away, not a privilege to be requested; support national, electronic, automatic voter registration.

*Consider Norm Ornstein's voter lottery as an incentive to vote

*Change the FCC candidate preference rules to exclude negative ads from preferred rates.

*Consider supporting H.R.20 - Government By the People Act of 2014, Sarbanse D-MD

*Exclude campaign contributions received, from Section 8 and other safety net calculations.

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