U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recently called on Senate leadership to provide emergency funding and provisions in the next phase of coronavirus relief legislation in order to protect Americans' constitutional right to vote, her office said.

Senator Gillibrand is pushing for the next relief package to include provisions from the Voter Empowerment Act, additional emergency voting mechanisms, and necessary funding, including:

• At least 15 consecutive days of early voting and easily accessible polling locations;

• A state requirement allowing no excuse vote-by-mail eballots;

• Expanded eligibility for federal write-in ballots;

• Establishment of a secure online voter registration system that is accessible to people with disabilities and through an automated telephone-based system for Americans without access to broadband services;

• Automatic voter registration for all eligible individuals;

• And what her office called “robust” ballot tracking measures for absentee and mail-in ballots beginning for the 2020 election and all other federal general elections.

The full text of the letter is at https://bit.ly/2wK8GoJ

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