“Republican intransigence on voting rights is not an excuse for inaction and Senator Manchin must wake up to this fact,” said Karen Hobart Flynn, the president of Common Cause, a government watchdog group, which backs the bill. Mondaire Jones, a freshman progressive congressman from New York, harshly criticized Manchin for not doing enough to protect voting rights when it was clear they were under attack. In March, he embraced provisions in the For the People Act that would require at least 15 days of early voting and protect Native American voting rights. Voting advocates support the bill as a way of preventing future voting discrimination but say, on its own, it would not do anything to undo the restrictions that have already been enacted. “Senator Manchin should vote to advance the bill to a full floor debate, and not filibuster the bill with his Republican colleagues.”

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2021 12:26 UTC