Rasoul Releases Plan to Ensure Right To Vote For Every Virginia Citizen

From the Sam Rasoul for LG campaign:

Rasoul Releases Plan to Ensure Right To Vote For Every Virginia Citizen

Rasoul’s plan includes expanding automatic voter registration and ending disenfranchisement for the incarcerated

Proposal would ban corporate donations and explore small-donor public financing system

ROANOKE – On Friday, the first day Virginians can vote early in the Democratic primary, Virginia candidate for lieutenant governor Del. Sam Rasoul (D-11) announced a plan to ensure the right to vote is never taken away from any Virginia citizen and get corporate money out of Virginia politics.

The plan’s release follows Rasoul’s endorsement this week from Delegate Cia Price (D-95), co-author of the Virginia Voting Rights Act.

In 2017, Rasoul was the only member of the General Assembly to reject all corporate PAC donations, and in his campaign for Lieutenant Governor, he has pledged that every dollar into his campaign will be from individual donors only.

Rasoul’s plan includes:

• Ensuring the ability to vote is never taken away, including for the incarcerated
• Expanding automatic voter registration to government agencies beyond the Department of Motor Vehicles
• Instituting ranked-choice voting
• Banning corporate political donations
• Instituting maximum individual contribution limits
• Exploring a small-donor public financing system for Virginia

Read the full plan on Rasoul’s website.

“In states across the South, we’ve seen Republican governors and legislatures this year enact vicious voter suppression laws. Luckily, the Democratic majority in Virginia has moved us in the opposite direction,” said Rasoul. “Now is the time to go further and join other states by ensuring that the right to vote is never taken away, and putting measures in place that curb the undue influence of corporate greed on our elections.”

Watch the video with co-author of the Virginia Voting Rights Act, Del. Cia Price (D-95).