House Republicans unveiled a highly conservative voter suppression bill, restricting federal agencies from voter registration, discouraging private funding for elections, and imposing stricter voter ID rules that disproportionately affect Black voters.
Voting rights advocates have raised the alarm over the ACE Act, dubbing it the ““[T]he benign-sounding name of this legislation cloaks an extremist, anti-voter effort to increase the role of megadonors in our elections and encourage deliberate barriers to make it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballot,” said the Declaration for American Democracy , per.
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