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On this vote, the A's are 220 and the A's are 210. The bill is passed.

This month, the House passed one of the biggest voting rights bills since the civil rights era.

If it passes, states would have to automatically register all voters. And Americans would have

more time to vote. But this bill has a tough road to the president's desk. It's unlikely to make

it through the Senate. And this is all happening in the wake of 2020 when former president Trump

falsely claimed that the election was stolen from him. And state houses are responding by making it

harder to vote. The fight over who gets to vote has raged on for a long time in this country.

When we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage last August, Sean had a conversation

with historian Robin Muncie. She said the fight over voting rights dates back to the country's

inception. The work of being a democratic citizen is never ending and relentless.

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