The Bipartisan Origins & Impact of the For the People Act (H.R. 1/S. 1)
Moreover, rights restoration has been supported by established nonpartisan groups like the American Probation and Parole Association, the American Bar Association, and a long list of religious and law enforcement groups, as well as conservative and libertarian groups like the Cato Institute and R Street Institute. H.R. 1/S. 1 would codify this growing bipartisan consensus. Under the bill, once a formerly incarcerated person is living in the community, they may participate in our democracy and vote in federal elections.
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Corporate PACs halt GOP donations why it s not financially meaningful By Musadiq Bidar
Updated on: January 30, 2021 / 12:08 PM / CBS News
A growing number of American companies are pledging to pause donations from their political action committees (PAC) to lawmakers who voted to overturn the Electoral College results showing President Joe Biden had won the presidential election. But halting these donations is a largely symbolic gesture because of campaign finance limits. If they wanted to take a real financially meaningful stand, they would say, we re not going to give through the corporate PAC to office holders who try to subvert the democratic process and we are going to demand that any trade associations we give to follow those same rules, including for Super PAC donations, said Adav Noti, senior director at the Campaign Legal Center.
State Republican lawmakers eye mail-in voting restrictions in Georgia and other key states
Republican state lawmakers in battleground states Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania have moved to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting for future elections.
All three states were fiercely contested in the 2020 election and saw record numbers of early and mail-in voters, many of them Democrats, after rules were relaxed due to the pandemic triggering baseless claims of fraud by President Donald Trump and other Republicans that culminated with the deadly January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.
Despite the absence of widespread security issues with mail-in voting, GOP lawmakers in all three states are arguing for added security and proposing steps that would make it harder to qualify for or cast mail-in ballots.
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An election watchdog group has filed an updated complaint with the FEC against the Trump campaign.
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