#TBT: President Clinton Secures Voting Rights

 

     On May 20th, 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act, also known as the "Motor Voter Act." This law mandated that states offer voter registration during the driver's license application process, created a uniform and nondiscriminatory set of voting standards for states eligible for federal assistance, provided clear guidance to voters, and expanded access to mail-in ballots. 

     As a result of the law, tens of millions of new voters were registered, more than when the 1971 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. This was the most significant voting rights law in American history aside from the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and this historic event serves as all the more incentive to double down on passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For The People Act by the end of the year.