Options are important. Right now, the Democrats see the health, science, and economic connection more clearly. My parents and grandparents were right about that. Integrity, honesty, empathy and disciplined decisions build the values of trust and respect. When a party is not paying attention to its character, there should be a consequence; it is reason for change. Government officials are public servants.
When our politicians support the policies and people who are the backbone of this country: veterans, health care workers, essential service providers, farmers, teachers, small businesses, too, our most vulnerable citizens, and our newcomers, then our quality of life improves, and our democracy stands stronger. The Democrats are presently more interested in unifying those aspects of our society.
My vote is to make government accountable, responsible, and represent us well here and abroad. To put public service back on the agenda for our future, and the future of next generations. A healthy choice is when both parties put their best candidates forward. It can be overwhelming. It might even start to feel like no one else is paying attention.
The Civic Engagement and Voter Protection team is dedicated to protecting our democracy. We are working around the clock to educate voters and fight voter suppression. We are dedicated to ensuring that all voters have equal access to the ballot box. Together we can protect the right to vote and take back the White House in The Civic Engagement and Voter Protection department is concerned with safeguarding the right to vote by ensuring fair, accessible elections.
Democrats are focused on preventing terrorism across the globe. This means continuing to invest heavily in intelligence and information sharing and promoting those networks among our allies.
We have strengthened our ability to keep nuclear and biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists, promoted efforts to better ensure border security, and augmented defense of our national infrastructure.
Democrats will continue to build on and protect that progress. In the past, government investments in scientific research have yielded innovations that have helped shape the landscape of American life — technologies like the internet, digital photography, Global Positioning System technology, laser surgery, and cancer treatment.
But over the past three decades, support for the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences has been drastically cut at a time when other countries are substantially increasing their own research budgets. Democrats believe that scientific research should play an important role in advancing science and technology in the classroom and in the lab.
In order to compete globally, our next generation must be equipped with the tools and skills that lead to the job-creating technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs of the future.
Democrats have taken significant steps to expand educational opportunities and make college more affordable for all Americans while improving the quality of our schools and our teachers.
Democrats have made historic investments in research for clean-energy technologies that are helping to create the industries of the future. The Obama administration lifted federal restrictions on stem cell research, providing scientists and doctors with new resources to help save lives.
Democrats are working to close the 'digital divide,' expanding access to high-speed broadband internet. We recognize that broadband is an important addition to our national infrastructure by expanding access to information and education while serving as a central resource for small businesses and entrepreneurs to generate economic growth.
The Obama administration took unprecedented steps to use technology as an instrument to restore faith, transparency, and accountability to government, and Democrats are fighting to protect his work so we can harness the ingenuity and experience of all Americans to increase efficiency and effectiveness of government. Ever since, Democrats have continually fought to defend these cornerstones of the American Dream in the face of attempts to dismantle or undermine both.
Today it remains a safety net for seniors and offers all Americans peace of mind. In recent years, Democrats have beaten back Republican plans to privatize Social Security — plans that would have exposed the retirement funds of millions of American seniors to great risk on the eve of the financial crisis.
Instead, no one lost a penny of Social Security. Health care reform strengthened the Medicare trust fund, expanding its life by more than a decade.
Nearly half the workforce — about 75 million people — currently do not have employer-supported retirement plans. Democrats believe that all Americans have the right to a secure and healthy retirement, and we will continue fighting to preserve both Medicare and Social Security for future generations. The right to vote is fundamental — it is the right that protects and expands all other rights. We adopted the boldest and most pro-voter platform in history — calling for expanding early voting and vote-by-mail, implementing universal automatic voter registration and same day voter registration, ending partisan and racial gerrymandering, and making Election Day a national holiday.
We do this by supporting candidates for state secretary of state and state legislative seats who want to expand voting rights. And we do this by supporting efforts in all 50 states to ensure that every eligible citizen can register and vote, and that each vote is accurately counted.
This work is all the more important in the face of a cynical Republican strategy to make it more difficult to ordinary Americans to vote.
In the wake of the Supreme Court gutting a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, 14 states passed or implemented some form of voting restriction. These actions included eliminating same-day registration, reducing early voting, prohibiting out-of-precinct voting, and imposing strict photo ID laws. Republicans passed laws eliminating same-day registration, reducing early voting periods, eliminating pre-registration, not counting certain provisional ballots, and imposing a new voter ID law in states like Alabama,, Arizona, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
These laws have a real effect on our election outcomes, and disproportionately affect women, communities of color, young people, the elderly, low-income individuals, and disabled voters, as well as military members and veterans.
The margin of victory in Wisconsin was only 23, votes. As Republican politicians try to make it harder to vote, Democrats are working to expand access to the polls. Whether we are hitting the streets to register voters, engaging with local election officials, passing commonsense laws, or taking our fights against discriminatory voting laws to court, we won't stop working to promote a system of elections that is accessible, open, and fair.
As Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis says, 'the vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society. We must use it. The convention was originally scheduled to take place July , , in Milwaukee. Most of the convention's events took place remotely. The DNC announced in June that delegates should not plan to travel to Milwaukee to attend the convention. Biden announced U. Kamala Harris D as his running mate on August 11, Hillary Clinton became the Democratic presidential nominee and the first female nominee of a major political party on July 26, , with the support of 2, Democratic National Committee delegates.
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