"Enacting voter ID requirements without ensuring they don't unfairly limit access is wrong. Pretending that concerns about voter fraud will go away is a failed approach as well. We need to expand our vision, just as we must when addressing other voting rights controversies like suffrage rights for different groups of American citizens and our inadequate voting equipment infrastructure and accountability for election administration breakdowns involving long lines, poorly trained pollworkers and confusing ballot designs. Not doing so creates a repetitive cycle of failure to protect the right to vote - and leads to ugly, but often all-too-plausible claims of partisanship driving decisions about what should be a fundamental citizenship right.
For FairVote, this necessary expansion of vision will come with a movement to establish a constitutional right to vote. This month we expect to see the introduction in Congress of HJR 28, the right to vote amendment."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/the-debate-over-voter-ide_b_823128.html
Contact your U.S. Representative and say "we need a constitutional right to vote-- please pass HJR28, the right to vote amendment."
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