Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.

In previous elections, we've had voting stations overrun by panicky mobs, and there's been a bit more obvious intimidation.