"It is unnecessary to make it more difficult for the elderly, people voting by travel board, and those serving in the military to vote," said Rep. Tonya Pfaff, D-Terre Haute.
laws without the support of most michigan voters. they re doing it with a petition drive. one that requires signatures from fewer than 4% of all registered voters in the state. jamie roe is a spokesman our pe designed to make changes to our michigan election law that restores faith in both sides in the outcome of the election. reporter: because of a quirk in the law, the gop-led legislature circumstance up vent the governor to enact stricter voter id requirement, ban the use of private donations and to tribute the state from mailing ballots. some say it would have a chilling effect on voter participation. i think a lot of people will not choose to exercise their right to vote absentee. that concerns me.
walk us through what we are expecting to see there in the senate today, also what you are learn being the majority leader s strategy here. hey, aaron. leader schumer is going to as you said set up a vote to take place as early as wednesday on this new compromise voting rights bill. it s not going to be a lot of fireworks today. we are all waiting for wednesday for when this key procedural vote takes place. now, at that key procedural vote, it is going to need the support of 60 senators to advance. we know that there are now 50 democrats who support this compromise legislation because senator joe manchin has come out in support of it. he s also negotiated this new bill that is different from the democrats being priority, the for the people act. one of the main big differences is this new version includes a voter id requirement, something that senator manchin really wanted. and so what we are going to be waiting for, and watching for,