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Posted: 2021-06-16T19:54:53Z | Updated: 2021-06-16T21:05:23Z

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) revealed Wednesday which provisions he would support in the For the People Act, a sweeping package of voting rights, campaign finance, ethics and redistricting reforms.

The list Manchin presented as a For the People Act Compromise comes just over a week after he declared his opposition to the bill in an op-ed for the Charleston Gazette-Mail , and one week ahead of a planned Senate floor vote on the bill. The bill already passed the House on a near party-line vote, with just one Democratic lawmaker voting against.

Manchin is the sole Democrat opposed to the For the People Act in the closely divided Senate, giving him significant leverage in negotiating a bill thats considered the partys top legislative priority. With the thinnest of possible majorities, Democrats need his support for the bill to pass. Even then, his currently stated opposition to changing the Senates filibuster would make it impossible to pass without the support of 10 Republicans .

Among the voting rights provisions included in Manchins proposal are expanding early voting, mandating automatic voter registration, making Election Day a holiday, requiring states to notify voters about polling place changes at least seven days ahead of time, and making sure provisional ballots are counted even if they were filed at the wrong precinct, among other things.

The campaign finance reforms Manchin supports include the disclosure of dark money, tightening the ban on coordination between candidates and super PACs, requiring tech platforms to disclose political advertising, and a mandate for campaigns to disclose any contacts with foreign actors. He also supports a provision to ban partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and ethics provisions to strengthen foreign lobbying enforcement and tighten conflict of interest rules, including requiring that presidents and vice presidents divest from any financial investments that could pose a conflict of interest after taking office.

These provisions are only a handful of those in the version of the For the People Act currently before the Senate. There were several Manchin did not list in his proposal, though he did not indicate whether he opposes them. These include mandates that states allow no-excuse absentee voting, same-day voter registration, expansions of voting by mail such as ballot drop box requirements, the restoration of voting rights to people convicted of felonies, voluntary public financing of congressional elections, restructuring the Federal Election Commission, mandating a paper ballot record trail, a significant number of other lobbying and ethics reforms, and an effective rollback of state voter identification laws that would allow voters to bypass ID requirements if they attest to their identity under penalty of perjury, among other things.