Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he plans to highlight three Democratic voting rights priorities on Thursday: Restoring a crucial piece of the Voting Rights Act, automatically registering voters and making Washington D.C. a state. Schumer’s announcement comes after Democrats announced that voting rights would be a top priority after the midterm elections. The first piece of legislation introduced in the Democrat-controlled House contains a wide range of voting reforms, a move intended to signal the party’s commitment to expanding voting rights. Republicans have dominated the national conversation about voting rights in recent years with allegations of voter fraud. The Senate minority leader announced Democrats’ priorities on the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 voting rights March in Selma, Alabama, where police beat civil rights activists on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2019 14:03 UTC