WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, co-sponsored legislation to create the first-ever affirmative federal voting rights guarantee for all eligible citizens.
First introduced in 2021, the Right to Vote Act would protect American citizens' fundamental right to vote by establishing a first-ever statutory right to vote in federal elections - protecting U.S. citizens from laws that make it harder to cast a ballot.
The bill would allow Americans to enforce that right by challenging in court any policy that unduly restricts ballot access....