{"id":235,"date":"2022-05-14T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T19:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteblue-saveamerica.com\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2022-05-15T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T23:44:45","slug":"in-peril-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voteblue-saveamerica.com\/?page_id=235","title":{"rendered":"In Peril:  Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The bedrock of our democratic government is right of the individual citizen to a secret ballot that carries no less, nor more, weight that any other ballot cast in locally conducted elections, operating within state guidelines.\u00a0 We depend upon local (typically volunteer) election workers and officials (often locally elected) to conduct our elections and count our votes.\u00a0 The implementation of this basic right has not been perfect through out our history,\u00a0 and has been subjected to regional or state variations.\u00a0 Since 1878 the Constitution has been amended four times to expand voting rights.\u00a0 Amendment XV (1870) prohibited denial of voting privilege based on &#8220;race, color, previous condition of servitude&#8221;,\u00a0 XIX (1920) provided voting rights to women,\u00a0 XXIV (1962) prohibited poll taxes, and XXVI (1971) lowered the minimum voting age to 18.\u00a0 All four amendments expanded voting rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0 In contrast by the end of 2021 262 bills had been introduced in 41 states to make it harder to vote, or give partisan legislatures more power to interfere or politicize election results.\u00a0 By the end of the year, 32 new laws were passed in 17 states.\u00a0 In seven states Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee and Texas Legislatures gave themselves the power to seize control of elections from local election officials.\u00a0 This power is exactly what Trump wanted when he unsuccessfully pressured state officials to &#8220;find&#8221; more votes for him.\u00a0 It also permits legislators to control elections in which they are candidates, which is as far from democracy as you can get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bedrock of our democratic government is right of the individual citizen to a secret ballot that carries no less, nor more, weight that any other ballot cast in locally conducted elections, operating within state guidelines.\u00a0 We depend upon local (typically volunteer) election workers and officials (often locally elected) to conduct our elections and count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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