What Do We Want? Democracy!

In state after state, the Republican Party has spent this year pushing laws that tighten ballot access for certain groups, and that make the system more vulnerable to partisan influences. There’s still work to do. This session focuses on historic context on voting rights and disenfranchisement in America through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, how modern disenfranchisement affects the composition of individual state legislatures, and the “must-haves” for Congress’s new bill.