G. K. Butterfield: “I promise that you will be regarded as one of many people in this Administration and across this country who were on the…”

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

Floridians deserve free and fair elections, not more restrictions on access to the ballot.

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.

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.