Eric Holder on Voting Rights
“2016: The Right to Vote at Risk and the Promise of Automatic Voter Registration” was the luncheon keynote address at the all-day seminar, “Automatic Voter Registration: Why and How,” held in the Rosenthal Pavilion of New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about voting rights, saying that measures taken against voter fraud were unnecessary and cumbersom… read more
Former Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about voting rights, saying that measures taken against voter fraud were unnecessary and cumbersome. He talked about the advantages of laws to automatically register eligible citizens to vote when obtaining a driver’s license such as Oregon, California, Vermont, and West Virginia have. Since 2015, 28 additional states considered the new policy, which could add millions of new voters nationwide. He was introduced by former White House senior adviser Danielle Gray.
“2016: The Right to Vote at Risk and the Promise of Automatic Voter Registration” was the luncheon keynote address at the all-day seminar, “Automatic Voter Registration: Why and How,” held in the Rosenthal Pavilion of New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life. close
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