The Freedom to Vote Act (FTVA) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JLVRAA).
This transformative legislation sets national standards to increase access to the ballot box, neutralizes partisan and racial gerrymandering, protects our elections from interference, increases transparency in campaign finance to prevent dark money from buying our politicians, and more. (Blue States)
Back in the spring of 1866, It was the opinion that three-fourths of the States of this Union could not be induced to vote to grant the right of suffrage . . . to the colored race.” 1920: White women are able to vote1924: Native American women earn the right to vote1943: Chinese women are able to vote1965: Black and Latinx women are able to vote1975: The Voting Rights Act is amended to protect “language minority citizens”
The landmark legislation was amended to include protections for Americans who had a “history of exclusion from the political process” because of the primary languages they spoke, including Native Americans and immigrants from Latin America and Asia. The proposed 26th Amendment passed the House and Senate in the spring of 1971 and was ratified by the states on July 1, 1971. The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country during the 1960s, driven in part by the military draft held during the Vietnam War. ... A common slogan of proponents of lowering the voting age was "old enough to fight, old enough to vote".
As I write this blog, all around me, seems to be the worst of the worst, the vile of the most venomous eager, able, ready, and willing to swipe right and erase all, and sadly, ANY traces of liberty and justice for all, and the mere fact that one vote one by each and every American is how America is supposed to work…not necessarily how it once was…BUT how it NOW is! We have been the most perfect union, but IN SPITE of the arrogant, the ignorant, the selfish, the self-serving, the insecure, the inept, the despots, the snake oil salespeople, the white-collared criminals, the shysters, the wannabe kings, and queens…the rest of Americans have tried and TRIED to pursue unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
