Cummings, Sarbanes Talk Election Reform at Town Hall Meeting

With a Democratic-led House of Representatives in place, voting rights and other anti-corruption measures are very much on Alan Cohen’s mind. That explains why he trekked down to the War Memorial building at 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning to hear what two congressmen from the newly installed majority had to say…. Tagged the “For The People Act,” the bill, pushed by many Democrats during last year’s election campaigns, offers changes that would affect voting, political money, redistricting and ethics. And there to talk about it was the congressman who introduced it, John Sarbanes, along with Elijah Cummings, the new chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The meeting was organized by Indivisible Baltimore, a volunteer group “dedicated to protecting progressive values during the Trump administration,” according to forms left on seats that audience members were asked to fill out. Members of Indivisible Baltimore and Indivisible Howard County stood outside the building, holding printed blue-and-white signs that read, “Whose House? Our House.”