Did the renewed voting-rights language change anything? Or was it basically just reauthorizing the existing rules?
It changed a few things administratively. But it was basically the existing laws. They didn’t get strengthened. It was basically maintaining the existing laws. It was extended for another 25 years. I think that a lot of people, like myself, who privately would have wanted a stronger bill, would have wanted some protection for people who have been disenfranchised; would have wanted protections for provisional ballots; would have wanted same-day registration or same-day address updates or things that would have made the voting process easier. But in the spirit of bipartisanship, many of us sort of stood back and went for what we thought could be passed without a lot of pushback from the Republican side. So we got the bill renewed. And we are very happy about it. But there are some issues about whether or not we could have a stronger series of bills that would have maybe been a good collection of things to pass while we were in the middle of a Voting Rights Act renewal process. But I am v
