Provisions That are in HR-1 Voting Rights Act
- Automatic voter registration at an array of state agencies
- Same-day voter registration
- Online voter registration
- Allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register so they’ll be on the rolls when they turn 18
- Allowing state colleges and universities to serve as registration agencies
- Banning states from purging eligible voters’ registration simply for infrequent voting
- Two weeks of in-person early voting, including availability on Sundays and outside of normal business hours
- Standardized hours within states for opening and closing polling places on Election Day, with exceptions to let cities set longer hours in municipal races
- Prepaid postage on mail ballots
- Allowing voters to turn in their mail ballot in person if they choose
- Requiring states to establish nonpartisan redistricting commissions for congressional redistricting
- Ending prison gerrymandering by counting prisoners at their last address (rather than where they’re incarcerated) for the purposes of redistricting
- Ending felony disenfranchisement for those on parole, probation, or post-sentence, and requiring such citizens to be supplied with registration forms and informed their voting rights have been restored
- Expressing support for D.C. statehood (which is the subject of a separate bill)
- Public financing for House campaigns in the form of matching small donations at a six-for-one rate
- Expanded campaign finance disclosure requirements to mitigate Citizens United
- Banning corporations from spending on campaign purposes unless the corporation has established a process for determining the political will of its shareholders
- Making it a crime to mislead voters with the intention of preventing them from voting
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