Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer already plans to bring it up for a vote again.
Senate Republicans stopped the chamber from voting on the sweeping Freedom to Vote Act Wednesday, thwarting Democratic efforts to impose new voting reforms that could combat state-level restrictions being enacted by GOP lawmakers nationwide.Xinhua News Agency/Getty ImagesRepublicans used the filibuster to block debate on the bill, with a 50-50 vote along party lines failing to reach the 60 vote threshold that Democrats would have needed to move forward with debate.
such measures as mandating early voting periods and no-excuse mail-in voting, making Election Day a holiday, restoring voting rights to the formerly incarcerated, limiting how long voting lines can be, prohibiting partisan gerrymandering, making it easier to register to vote, improving election infrastructure and enacting new campaign finance reform provisions.
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