The right to vote is a cherished right that we Americans hold up to the world as the definitive embodiment of a democratic republic.

That being said, it is only right and just that the power of the vote should be protected by the federal government, not left up to individual states to decide through their legislatures. The Supreme Court will be handing down a decision in the upcoming session that could very well give power to state legislatures to deny the will of the people’s vote by using the theory of independent state legislature.

The ISL theory effectively blocks any state’s court actions and gives total authority to the state legislature to, in effect, decide who can and cannot vote. It is a harbinger of a “neo-Jim Crow” era and should be resisted at any cost.

The people’s right to vote is a sacred right and duty and cannot be left up to individual states to decide voting rights through any capricious or arbitrary manner they might manufacture.

Jake Hawkins
Arundel