Executive Council Statement
Election Reform
… and older Americans—are disproportionately disenfranchised by the failure of voting systems. The nation must act now to ensure that the wholesale disenfranchisement of voters in Florida and elsewhere never be repeated. The AFL-CIO will work for reform anchored in basic principles fundamental to any democracy—chief amongst them the idea that the right to vote is a right guaranteed to all, not a privilege reserved for the well-educated, the affluent, or the …