Clinton calls for All Citizens to be Automatically Registered to vote at 18 in Every State

Hillary Clinton proposed Thursday that Americans be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out, one of a series of voting-law changes she said would expand access to the ballot box.

In her remarks to a largely African-American audience in Houston, she accused Republicans of making voting harder, particularly for minorities and young people. Republicans say they are focused on rooting out voter fraud.

The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination also proposed expanded in-person early voting, called on Congress to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act struck down by the Supreme Court in 2013 and said felons who have served their sentences should have voting rights restored.

The speech marked the latest in a series of policy announcements likely to be popular with core Democratic voters. Democrats also see voting rights as critical to helping them win elections.

“We have a responsibility to say clearly and directly what’s really going on in our country. Because what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to another,” she said at Texas Southern University, a historically black college.

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