This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayer Colpa Weekend Review.

On Wednesday, House Democrats pushed through a sweeping expansion of federal voting rights

against total Republican opposition.

It's the latest battle in a raging war about elections aimed at countering GOP attempts

to claim down on ballot access.

HR1, known as the For People Act, would overhaul government ethics and campaign finance laws

and seek to strengthen voting rights by creating automatic voter registration and expanding

access to early and absentee voting.

The vote on the bill comes as Republican-controlled state legislators across the country have launched

their own offensive with some 250 separate measures taking in ballot access, including measures

to limit mail-in voting and impose stricter voter identification requirements.

It could become the most significant overhaul of U.S. elections and government ethics in

a generation.

Before the People Act requires states to offer same-day voter registration and would automatically

register all eligible voters.

It also limits states' ability to purge voter rolls and would restore voting rights to

felons who have completed their sentences.

Democrats say the reforms would expand voting access to marginalized groups, especially minorities,

and establish some national standards.

Republicans say it gives too much power to the federal government to manage what are

supposed to be state-run elections.

The legislation, while ambitious, is unlikely to pass in the Senate where a super majority

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