To: President Donald Trump
The American Voters' Election Suppression Prevention Act (AVESPA)
This petition is about the right to vote. There have been many elections in which people have had to wait in line at the polls for six or seven hours in order to vote. We the undersigned consider this situation to be unacceptable. We demand legislation that would require state and local governments to keep records of delays at the polls and take action to ensure that the risk of such delays in the future will be minimized.
Why is this important?
On the television news, there have been pictures of people in line at the polls, having to wait six or seven hours to vote. This is unacceptable. It amounts, in effect to suppressing the vote, becuase not everyone could endure waiting, or disrupting their daily routine, for so long. There should be legislation to require state and local aurthorities to have enough staff on hand to handle reasonably predictable crowds of people without such long delays. State and local governments should be required to report long delays and prove that they have taken appropriate action to bring about a satsifactory decrease in the risk that such delays could happen again.