Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.
It was a step forward in meeting America’s promise of democratic governance and liberty for all — and for nearly fifty years, it helped secure voting rights for all Americans.
But in the years since the Supreme Court struck down a key Voting Rights Act provision, we’ve seen just how far some politicians will go to undermine democracy and deny voting rights or access for their own gain.
With the Voting Rights Act, we came so close to achieving the founding promise of American democracy. Now, that promise is being broken over and over across our country. We have to fight back — and I’m asking you to stand with me now. Sign on to say you support voting rights protections for all Americans >>>
Consider what happened in North Carolina: Republicans used their control over the state legislature to draw blatantly partisan legislative maps and give their party an unfair advantage in future elections, and even tried to throw out tens of thousands of legal votes in an election they lost.
Americans in many states are facing restrictive voting laws and gerrymandered maps designed to make it harder for some of us to cast a ballot and to ensure that some of our ballots count less than others.
These are precisely the kinds of abuses of political power that the Voting Rights Act had helped prevent.
The GOP has made it clear that their loyalty is to their power and their party, not our people.
John, as the next Democratic Senator from North Carolina, I will fight to restore the full promise of the Voting Rights Act and defend every American’s right to have an equal voice in our democracy. It is a foundational promise that America must uphold.
If you are with me, I’m asking you to sign on and say you support protecting voting rights.
Thank you,
Roy Cooper
