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Originally Posted by Itse
The voting rights act of 1965 has already been amended numerous times, and could very well be amended again.
Automated voter registration, setting federal standards for the amount of polling stations per capita and the hours they're required to be open in federal elections, automated registration, giving convicts and Ex-convicts a vote like civilized countries... A lot could be done.
I guess that could be called more of a "voting reform" than "election reform".
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The voting rights act is more about who can vote rather than how to vote. Giving convicts and ex-convicts the right to vote would be under this.
There just no federal mechanism on the how to vote. Everything is done at state level and they won't give that up and I'm not sure the federal government wants to take that on due to cost and managing 300 mill voters.