In this column are comments from debate audience members who lean in favor of the resolution, in support of (affirmatives) making HR 1 law. …

There are few legitimate problems with illegal or fake votes that have been discovered but many known problems that make it hard to vote for many citizens. That being the case,  allowing your state to perpetuate rules that continue to make it difficult is working against your own interests. Unless of course you fear you are going to be outvoted by those who disagree with you. Look into your own heart - do you really want to act on fear? Or do you want to provide for a society that can resolve issues with healthy, informed debate followed by voting? --Barbara Watts

I agreed with the speaker who pointed out that the current bill at 800 pages is unlikely to pass the Senate.  Suggest paring it down to essential elements that need fixing, e.g., independent commissions to review redistricting to avoid gerrymandering, and automatic voter registration.  --Ginny Haver

Participating in American elections by voting should be the final step in a longer deliberation, come out of a totally different medium of exchange between citizens. At present voting cements in place the Us-Against-Them of party politics. It short-circuits not only rational thought but any sense that we are one country. Despite loud claims of what "the American People" want, there is no such thing. We are riven by more than factionalism. We take each other as positions, as representatives of some generalization about truth or morality or justice. To recapture American exceptionalism, we need infrastructure for generating another universe to live in: We-For-Each-Other. --Henry McHenry Jr.

[Note: Comments are edited for length and clarity. Braver Angels and The Hustings standards of civil discourse apply.]