Expand voting access and federal protections against suppression

Katy Padilla Stout calls for Congress to restore and greatly expand the Voting Rights Act to prevent state-led voter suppression. She supports online, same-day, and public-school voter registration, expanded voting accessibility and mail-in ballots, and federal regulation of voter-roll purges, last-minute changes to voting procedures, and polling-location scare tactics. She also calls for refocusing the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division on prosecuting voter intimidation and discrimination, and for a federal Election Day holiday.

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Congress should take bold action to restore the Voting Rights Act and to greatly expand it

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Retrieved: 11/10/2026