Freedom to Vote Act

It's the successor to the For the People Act which has Manchin's support. Apparently the latter has been working on this Bill with Klobuchar. Biden said "he'd work to change filibuster rules to pass this Bill." Some provisions of the Bill:

"The legislation protects millions of Americans’ access to the ballot box and will make it easier for citizens to cast a ballot in a secure but convenient way. Every state would be required to have automatic voter registration. Election Day would become a federal holiday. Every eligible citizen could request a mail ballot and drop it off at a secure drop box if they so desire."

"It addresses the flood of undisclosed 'dark money' into the electoral process and creates the option for matching funds for House candidates when states opt in, modernizing and expanding federal campaign finance reforms passed in previous decades. And — perhaps most time-sensitive of them all — as states begin to draw their voting maps for the next decade, the legislation bans partisan gerrymandering and makes it easier for judges to strike down maps that unfairly entrench one political party in power and deny communities of color fair representation."

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