Sabrina Schnur
09/10/22
(Las Vegas Journal Review) A group of union activists joined Democratic politicians on the Vote for Democracy Tour in Las Vegas Saturday, canvassing door to door. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Reps. Steven Horsford and Susie Lee were among the speakers rallying Democrats and members of the SEIU Local 1107. The politicians urged voters to re-elect Horsford, Lee and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, and to elect Cisco Aguilar, Democratic candidate for secretary of state. “From the bargaining table to the ballot box, and from the workplace to the White House, that’s how important it is,” union President Michelle Maese said at a roundtable before the canvassing began. “Vote in the local and national elections. If you get ballot fatigue, wake up.” Klobuchar said local Republican challengers, including Adam Laxalt for U.S. Senate and Jim Marchant for secretary of state, would work to limit voters’ rights while Democrats are attempting to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Electoral Count Reform Act. Those bills would amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Electoral Count Act of 1887, respectively.