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Lightning Strikes posted...

Could someone explain for a non-American? Whats in the original act and whats in Manchins compromise?

This is a summarized version so I may be missing a few components or losing some nuance, but...

For The People Act / HR 1/ S 1:

Guarantee protections for voters against restrictive laws with things like: automatic voter registration for federal elections, guarantee the right for those with disabilities to vote absentee, restore the right to votes to felons who have completed their sentence, limiting voter roll purges, require same-day registration, and require at least two weeks of early voting.

It would outlaw partisan gerrymandering and requiring redistricting to be done by an independent commission comprised of equal parts Democrat, Republican, and Independent.

It would increase transparency into political donations by requiring groups that make large donations to reveal their donor lists (as of now you can donate to a Super PAC who can then donate to candidate(s) while keeping those who donated to the PAC itself hidden which has predictably led to massive amounts of dark money flooding elections.) There's also moves towards public financing of elections by having matching donations for small donors and revamping contribution limits.

Finally it would provide funds to states to perform audits and other election security things.

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Manchin balked at the public financing of elections bits and bans against Voter ID laws. He also scales back absentee ballot access somewhat wrt to For the People.

He retains/adds things like: Election Day to be a public holiday, at least 15 days of early voting, including two weekends, still bans gerrymandering but leaves redistricting to computer models.

Manchin would also implement National Voter ID with some allowance of alternatives (IIRC like a utility bill, etc.)


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