Hillary Clinton: We Should Make It Easier to Vote

forty years after barbara jordan fought to extend the voting rights act it's

fire has been ripped out and i wish we could hear her speak up for the student who asked to wait hours

for his or her right to vote for the grandmother who's turned away from the polls because

her driver's license expired for the father who is john his time and paid his debt to society but still hasn't

gotten his rights back now we know unfortunately barbara isn't here to speak up for them and so many others but

we are and we have a responsibility to say clearly and directly

what's really going on in our country because what is happening is a sweeping effort

to get empower and disenfranchised people of color for our people and

young people from one end of our country to the other because since the supreme court even

this serrated a key provision of the voting rights act in twenty thirteen many

racial discrimination have proposed and passed new laws that make it harder than ever to

vote north carolina passed a bill that went after pretty much anything that makes voting more convenient or

more accessible early voting same day registration the ability of county election officials to even stand

voting hours to accommodate long lines now what possible could there be two and

high schools we should be doing everything we can to get are young people more

engaged in democracy not less in fact i'd say it is a cruel irony

but no coincidence that millennials the most diverse tolerant

and inclusive generation in american history are now facing so much exclusion

and we need look no further than right here in texas nnnnn

you all know this far better than i but if you want to vote in this state you can use a concealed weapon permit as

a valid form of identification but a valid student i. d. isn't good enough how

crystal watson found out the hard way she grew up in louisiana but came to marshall texas to attend wiley college and

crystal takes her responsibilities as a citizen so seriously that not only did she registered to vote in texas where

she was living and would be for a number of years she even became a deputy registrar to help other

people vote as well but this past year she showed up at her local polling place with