The campaign aims to strengthen election integrity policies in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin, with funding going to initiatives including digital and television ads and direct lobbying by state legislators.
“Fair elections are essential to every future policy debate,” Jessica Anderson, the agency’s director, told the media in a statement, “and we are working to help state legislators restore trust in our elections, ensure transparency, and protect the right of every American to participate in fair elections. This is our number one priority, and we are committed to doing everything we can.”
Election integrity has become a hot topic in the 2020 presidential election, with former President Donald Trump and his allies denouncing mail-in ballots as leading to fraud in this election, and the Biden administration fully denying Trump’s allegations.
The plan comes as statistics from the Brennan Center for Justice, an advocacy group promoting progressive policies, show that 28 states have introduced 106 bills to tighten voting rules this year, a significant increase from last year. Meanwhile, 35 states have introduced 406 bills to reduce restrictions on voting, also an increase over last year.
Congressional Democrats pushed the For the People Act of 2021 (H.R. 1) in recent days. The bill passed the House last week with a 220-210 majority, a controversial election reform package covering nearly 800 pages that aims to tweak voting procedures across the country.
Provisions of H.R. 1 include transferring election administration from the states to the federal government, fully automated voter registration in all 50 states, and legalizing vote-by-mail voting nationwide, with no photo ID required to obtain a vote-by-mail ballot.
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