G. K. Butterfield: “More people, everybody with legal access to voting and we must stop the undermining of our confidence in elections.”

The ability to cast a ballot free of undue burden and discrimination is the cornerstone of our participatory democracy.

I represent one of thirteen districts in North Carolina. And, as all of you certainly know, the Rucho case originated in my State, as well as the Moore v. Harper case.

The Voting Rights Act has transformed American politics and we are on a good trajectory.

We took the case into Federal court, and the lower Federal courts ruled in our favor and ruled that the State legislature engaged in partisan gerrymandering and that it was a violation of the Federal Constitution.