Former Vice President Al Gore
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“This is really anti-American,” said Gore during an appearance on “CNN Tonight with Don Lemon” on Monday, while discussing the Republican Party’s efforts to impose greater restrictions on voting, including limiting absentee votes.
“It is a blatant effort to try to suppress black, brown and indigenous votes,” said the former Democratic vice president.
Gore argued that the benefits of the United States would be when more people with varied backgrounds and perspectives had a say, and stepped back in efforts to limit absentee voting, among other restrictions.
“There is no record of electoral fraud. One or two small cases from time to time, ”he declared.
“We must invite everyone to the voting booth and get everyone to participate, helping to guide this nation,” he added.
Republicans in several states have criticized the absentee vote and have come up with new restrictions after allegations of electoral fraud made by former President Trump
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The left-wing Brennan Center for Justice said last month that lawmakers in dozens of states this year pushed for bills that seek to limit voting.
Gore emphasized on Monday that, instead of making voting more difficult, especially for marginalized populations, the United States should take further steps to expand access to voting.
“We should vote on weekends instead of Tuesday, on a working day,” said Gore, who launched a national voter registration campaign in partnership with the Climate Reality Action Fund in 2020.
Democrats have long advocated automatic electoral registration, with several states, including New York, New Mexico, Nevada and Massachusetts, approving measures to allow the practice in recent years. These automatic voter registration measures are modeled around an “opt-out” system instead of an “opt-in” plan.
Hawaii moved forward with a measure last month that would allow those entitled to vote to be automatically registered when applying for a driver’s license or state identity card.