Group founded by Stacey Abrams launches voting rights initiative

Fair Fight Action, the voting rights organization founded by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, is launching the 2.0 version of its "Hot Call Summer" campaign, a push to educate and mobilize voters of color and progressives around two federal voting rights bills. 

One of the measures, the "For the People Act," has been passed by the House but was blocked by Republicans in the Senate, and the other, the "John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act," is a bill co-sponsored by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski but has not yet been introduced.  In a release first shared with CBS News, Fair Fight is arguing that several provisions must be included in any federal voting rights legislation: protection and expansion of mail voting; methods for reducing long lines at the polls; stopping threats to election workers and voter intimidation; ensuring the drawing of fair districts and ending partisan gerrymandering.