Support for voters rights is protecting our American democracy!

Vote! #ForThePeople

Shameful reminder and an echo opinion letter published in Opelika -Auburn news, in North Dakota:  

The failure of passage (or even debate) of the “For the People” voting rights bill is a shameful reminder that one of our national parties fears democracy. 

Senator John Thune’s defense of the Republican stance on Monday’s PBS News was unconvincing. 

What pointed out, quite accurately, was that existing election procedures allowed for the best participation in a national election in decades last fall, but he failed to note how that very success has led to many Republican-led state legislatures, Alabama’s included, to try to make sure such participation could never happen again.

I hope that there is still the possibility of passing the John Lewis bill and/or the compromise proposed by Senator Manchin. Almost everyone can support reasonable voter ID requirements. 

But i,t is unconscionable for the Federal government to allow states or anybody to purposefully make voting difficult for a large number of qualified voters.

I am disappointed that retiring Senator Shelby failed to stand for such a basic principle as the right of every citizen to vote.

Charlotte Ward Auburn, North Dakota