(DIR) Return Create A Forum - Home --------------------------------------------------------- Ukraine English News Forum (HTM) https://ukraineenglishnewsforum.createaforum.com --------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** (DIR) Return to: Politics ***************************************************** #Post#: 7490-------------------------------------------------- Clinton wants voting rights overhaul, more early voting By: discjocke52 Date: June 3, 2015, 6:46 pm --------------------------------------------------------- Seeking an expansion of voting rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to call for an early voting period of at least 20 days in every state and push back against Republican-led states that have sought restrictions on voting access. The Democratic presidential candidate is speaking Thursday at Texas Southern University in Houston, a historically black university. Democrats have filed legal challenges to voting changes from GOP lawmakers in the presidential battleground states of Ohio and Wisconsin. Clinton's campaign said she intends to denounce voting restrictions in North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin and encourage states to adopt a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting, including weekend and evening voting. About 20 million people voted early in the 2014 elections. However, about one-third of states do not have any early voting................... Read further at link: townhall.com (HTM) http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2015/06/03/clinton-wants-voting-rights-overhaul-more-early-voting-n2007831 *****************************************************