Voting rights being threatened?

According to Marian Wright Edelma, the author of this article titled “The American Promise: The Right to Vote”, voting rights of Americans are being threatened. She claims that some of the newly suggested restrictions, including the need to show government issued identification to vote and added steps that must be taken to register to vote, are aimed at excluding many groups of people from the voting process. Some of the proposed new rules make it harder for younger or low income Americans to be able to vote because it is being made harder for them to prove they are U.S. citizens. She says that this is a right that is trying to be taken away from many of us and that this will affect all of us Americans, not just the ones who would be unable to vote due to the restrictions. Since legislation and the courts are now taking a look at these proposals, she says now is a time we need to do something about it. I agree with Edelma that we do need to take action against these restrictions. It is hard enough to get Americans to vote nowadays and by making it harder to vote, it will throw out a lot of people that are actually voting, which is ridiculous. If anything, we should be coming up with ways to make it easier to vote so we can get more people to do so! Americans not voting is already a big problem in our country and these new rules will just add to it if they end up being put into effect.