Jesse Jackson: Right to register and vote is not a partisan issue
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Aug 24, 2022
3 minutes
The right to vote, Dr. Martin Luther King taught in his famous “Give Us the Ballot” address, is one of the “highest mandates of our democratic tradition.” Democracy is founded on the right of citizens to decide via popular, free and fair elections who should represent them. Across the world, the U.S. champions democracy. Yet at home the right to vote is embattled.
The United States trails most other developed democracies in voter
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