In an effort to seem like a populist, Hillary Clinton is taking on the issue of expanding voting rights.
According to The Washington Post, Clinton is calling for the repeal of state voter I.D. laws, a national 20-day early voting period, and, most recently, universal automatic voter registration.
She is very determined to make this her populist platform. Her legal team is even suing the states of Wisconsin and Ohio against their voter I.D. laws.
Automatic voter registration registers every citizen in every state to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out. Oregon is the only state to have such a law and Clinton touted the state as a shining example.
Much like Clinton’s movement leftward on immigration, climate change, and sentence reform, this is her attempt at reuniting the Obama coalition of 2008 and 2012.
Clinton is desperate for some momentum, as now a majority of registered voters no longer see her as trustworthy, according to a Washington Post/ABC-News Poll.
To make matters worse, despite being universally known and the front-runner, 40 percent of likely Democrat voters just want to vote for someone besides her.
