To: President Donald Trump
Prosecute Voter Suppression
Knowlingly enacting laws or changing regulations that diminish a citizen's right to vote should be prosecuted as a federal crime under the Civil Rights Act. We urge the Attorney General of the United States to investigate suspected cases of voter suppression during the 2012 election and, where appropriate, prosecute those individuals criminally for any such actions that were a deliberate attempt to discourage or deny a person that right to vote.
Why is this important?
Examples of voter supression during the past four presidential elections have become almost commonplace, whether the recent case of Pennsylvania election officials enacting new voter ID laws or the case in Ohio where election officials summarily reduced early voting days just prior to the election. Whether it is being done by Republicans or Democrats, it should be prosectuted as a federal crime.