Paul Lindsay: Tillis and voting rights

In the April 18 news article “Tillis tries to recast image, build ties with Democrats,” you quote Sen. Thom Tillis: “As long as states work to protect the constitutional right to vote, then the administration of election laws should be left to those states.”

Tillis is mistaken. There is no right to vote in the U.S. Constitution.

We should pass a constitutional amendment to protect this right. In the meantime, we need laws like the Voting Rights Act to prevent powerful groups from making it harder to vote.

Ironically, when Tillis was speaker of the House in North Carolina, the legislature passed one of the most suppressive voting laws in the nation.

This story was originally published April 19, 2016 at 5:05 PM with the headline "Paul Lindsay: Tillis and voting rights."