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This resolution urges the United States Congress to enact the "Alice Paul Voter Protection Act," H.R. 1583 of the 118th Congress, sponsored by Representative Andy Kim of New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District and cosponsored by Representative Donald Norcross of New Jersey's 1st Congressional District, which seeks to protect the voter registration rights of citizens. The "Alice Paul Voter Protection Act" would prohibit any person to corruptly hinder, interfere with, or prevent another person from registering to vote or from helping another person in registering to vote, and would subject any person who violates these provisions to a fine, up to five years' imprisonment, or both. The bill also requires the federal Election Assistance Commission to develop and publish recommendations for best practices for states to use to deter and prevent violations of the bill. Fittingly, the bill honors the legacy of Alice Paul, a New Jersey native of the 3rd Congressional District who, as a feminist leader of the suffragist movement, member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and leader of its Congressional Committee, and in 1916 a founder of the National Woman's Party, was instrumental in achieving the passage of the 19th Amendment by the United States Congress in 1919 and its ratification by the states in 1920, thereby guaranteeing women the right to vote. In her lifelong fight for voting rights, Alice Paul endured scorn and imprisonment under inhumane conditions but remained undeterred and, after earning three law degrees, originally wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923 and rewrote it in 1943 to uphold the principle that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex," which is still to be ratified. Voting rights are a sacred foundation of our democracy and have been secured by the determination and struggle of everyday citizens and leaders like Alice Paul.

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Carol Murphy (D)*,  Sterley Stanley (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly State and Local Government Committee (on 02/22/2024)

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