Clinton to call for 20 days of early voting across the nation

Daily Kos Staff

Thursday June 04, 2015 · 7:47 AM PDT

2015/06/04 · 07:47

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with local residents as she campaigns at the Jones Street Java House in LeClaire, Iowa April 14, 2015. Clinton, who announced on Sunday that she is running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominatio

Here's a smart move by the Clinton campaign—making a forceful and direct call for expanding voting rights, which puts Democrats in direct contrast with Republican efforts to restrict voting access. Anne Gearan has the details:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to call for an early voting period of at least 20 days in every state.
Clinton will call for that standard in remarks Thursday in Texas about voting rights, her campaign said. She will also criticize what her campaign calls deliberate restrictions on voting in several states, including Texas.

Seems like a tough one for Republicans to answer. Surely, they will claim it opens the door to fraud, but they'll still have to argue against making it easier for people to cast their votes—something even their voters (especially the older ones) would probably benefit from.

Clinton's move comes after voting rights have come under attack in many red states and Democrats have filed several legal challenges to the restrictions passed by GOP-controlled legislatures.

The legal effort began late last month with lawsuits in Wisconsin and Ohio, both presidential battleground states.
“This lawsuit concerns the most fundamental of rights guaranteed citizens in our representative democracy — the right to vote,” lawyers wrote in a federal complaint filed Friday in Wisconsin.

Clinton to call for 20 days of early voting across the nation

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