‘Time is running out’: can Congress pass a voting rights bill after months of failure?

The president made it a key plank of his election campaign, but nearly a year on, voting rights reform remains elusive

For years, Helen Butler has been on a mission to increase voter turnout, especially among Black voters, in Georgia and across the south. She's used to the skepticism. People she meets wonder why they should bother, because their vote won't matter. No matter who's in office, longstanding problems won't get solved.

More recently, she's pushed back on efforts by Georgia Republicans to make it harder to vote. She's seen things like overly aggressive efforts to remove people from the voter rolls and the rapid consolidation of polling places.