On March 7, U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones introduced HJ 4, a House Judiciary Committee Resolution. Although the press release announced that a similar bill is being introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Hillary Clinton, there will be no actual bill in the Senate for some time. The bill requires all states to permit same-day registration for federal elections, as well as to expand absentee voting so that any voter may vote absentee whether he or she is away from home on election day or not. The bill also requires states to let ex-felons vote. Congress has the authority to do all these things, under Article One’s “Elections Clause”, but only for federal elections. The nation’s major civil rights organizations support this bill. The bill’s name is the “Count Every Vote Act.”