A new House bill unveiled on Thursday by Congress Member Dan Goldman seeks to make voting easier by requiring a 14-day early voting period nationally and making polling locations more accessible.
“Early Voting Act,”
The Congress member was joined by Reverend Al Sharpton — founder and president of the National Action Network; Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP in New York; and Jasleen Singh, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice. “Setting a baseline national standard for voting as the early voting Act does is essential for protecting the freedom to vote in this country,” Singh said. “And while several states have recently expanded access to early voting, other state legislatures have taken steps in the opposite direction.”
“The 2020 election was by all accounts the safest election in our history to that point,” Goldman said. “Yet conspiracy theorists on the right, including our former president, peddled misinformation about how ballots were counted in an attempt to undermine confidence in the results.
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