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Friend,

Right after Chuck emailed you on Wednesday, Donald Trump started tweeting.

See, he didn't use the anniversary of the National Voter Registration Act to reflect on how we should be expanding voting rights and access, or how we can make voting safer during a global pandemic -- he used the anniversary to lash out at states who are working to make it easier for their citizens to vote this fall.

Let's start with the fact that these tweets aren't even true -- but that doesn't matter. The president wants to make this about politics. What it's really about is democracy, and protecting people's health.

Now more than ever, we need to expand voting rights and access -- and we're less than six months away from November's historic election. If we want to make this happen, we need to speak up NOW. After all: Donald Trump is watching, and he sure seems pretty afraid of our progress.

Add your name to join Chuck in calling for expanded voting rights and access right now.

Thanks,

Team Schumer

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Sender: Chuck Schumer
Subject: 27 years is too long not to make real change here.

Friend,

It should be easy to vote. Period. End of discussion.

In an election year plagued -- literally -- by a global pandemic that's forcing millions of Americans to practice social distancing, self isolate, and stay home? We should not force people to pack into polling places.

Which is why it's incredible to think that we haven't had sweeping federal changes to our voting laws since 1993, when we passed the National Voter Registration Act (or more lovingly referred to as the "Motor Voter Act"). It lets folks register to vote whenever they apply for a driver's license and at any office that provides public assistance.

Today is the 27th anniversary of the passage of that landmark law, and 27 years later we should be doing even more to make it easier to vote: Add your name to join me in calling for expanded voting rights and access right now.

Like so many of you, I was appalled to see that voters in Wisconsin last month were forced to wait in incredibly long lines -- some people waiting until midnight -- to vote in-person when their mail-in options were taken away by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

That could happen in states across the country this fall unless we demand action now. Voting is our constitutional right, and we should be able to do it without risking our health or our family's health to do it.

Join me in calling for expanded access to the ballot box before this fall's election, on the anniversary of the last time -- 27 years ago!! -- that we tackled voting access: Add your name today.

Sincerely,

Chuck Schumer