House Democrats, warning that “federal oversight is urgently needed” at the nation’s polling places, introduced a measure aimed at enhancing government control of elections and plan to consider it at a special August session that will convene next week.

The measure is named after the late Democratic House Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who was also a prominent civil rights activist, and it takes aim at the Peach State and other states that have implemented new changes to voting laws that Democrats say will suppress the vote.