We’ve been reading about all the different ways Trump, the Republican Party, Russia, China, etc. can / will screw with the election this fall. In this hypothetical, Biden has won a fairly close race (somewhere in the low 300s of EV), Democrats have taken the Senate with a 51-49 margin, and have slightly increased their margin in the House. As it turns out, the post-election analysis reveals that there was in fact cheating taking place, some of it directed by Trump and the Republican Party. It turns out that Biden should have won in a landslide and that the Senate should be 53-47 and the House margins even wider, to say nothing of state governments. The Democrats decide it’s time to prevent this from happening in the future, and a Voting Rights Act of 2021 is proposed. What would you all put in such legislation? Here are some of my ideas.
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Make Election Day a national holiday.
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Mandate a certain number of polling places per certain number of people, whatever the number would need to be so that the busiest places would no longer have lines past the typical poll closing times.
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Fix the funding for the USPS. This would include making it illegal for the postmaster to slow down mailings, close post offices, etc. around election time, with criminal penalties specified for violations.
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Set up some kind of automatic voter registration for all eligible voters.
What other ideas do you all have?