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President Biden and leading congressional Democrats have made the far-reaching bill a top priority, but some proponents believe it needs major changes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From The New York Times<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats in Congress are quietly splintering over how to handle the expansive\u00a0voting rights bill<\/a>\u00a0that they have made a centerpiece of their ambitious legislative agenda, potentially jeopardizing their chances of countering a Republican drive to restrict ballot access in states across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden and leading Democrats have pledged to make the elections overhaul a top priority, even contemplating a bid to upend bedrock Senate rules if necessary to push it through over Republican objections. But they are contending with an undercurrent of reservations in their ranks over how aggressively to try to revamp the nation\u2019s elections and whether, in their zeal to beat back\u00a0new Republican ballot restrictions moving through the states<\/a>, their proposed solution might backfire, sowing voting confusion and new political challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The hand-wringing demonstrates how urgent the voting issue has become for both parties since November, when President Donald J. Trump spread false claims of voter fraud that many Republicans believed. In the months since, Republican-led statehouses have advanced a wave of new laws clamping down on ballot access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats have coalesced around the idea that pushing back on such measures is a modern-day civil rights battle that the party cannot afford to lose. \u201cFailure,\u201d Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said last week, \u201cis not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while few Democrats are willing to publicly say so, the details of the more than 800-page bill \u2014 which would radically reshape the way elections are run and make far-reaching changes to campaign finance laws and redistricting \u2014 have become a point of simmering contention. Some proponents argue that Democrats should break off a narrower bill dealing strictly with protecting voting rights to prevent the legislation, known as the For the People Act, from collapsing amid divisions over other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemocrats have a narrow opportunity. There is a window here that could close anytime,\u201d said Richard L. Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine. \u201cI worry the kind of fights necessary to keep even the Democratic coalition together could blow up the whole thing and lose the chance to get anything done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Biden and leading congressional Democrats have made the far-reaching bill a top priority, but some proponents believe it needs major changes. 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