We also need to end the disenfranchisement of former prisoners who have served their time.
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Americans have suffered their disenfranchisement largely because of a traditional, habitual respect for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The commission was created to study allegations of disenfranchisement and voting irregularities across the country, but specifically in Florida.
But South Carolina's law, like Indiana's and Georgia's, explicitly addresses potential disenfranchisement by offering state-issued IDs free of charge.
Its other theme is the third cause for unrest in Buckingham: the traditional disenfranchisement of voters in the speaker's constituency.
Mr Bercow's friends, meanwhile, dismiss the disenfranchisement argument, saying that many constituents like the kudos of having the speaker as their MP.
Moreover, the Voting Rights Act, originally intended to prevent the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, makes it difficult to marginalise minority voters.
With population growth and urbanization continuing, disenfranchisement can only increase unless new seats are created, which would require the support of a two-thirds majority in parliament.
Ultimately, said Joshua Foust, a fellow at the American Security Project familiar with the region, Pakistan must address the broader sense of political disenfranchisement that originally fed the insurgency.
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While its influence on big-ticket issues in the region is declining, the U.S. has redoubled efforts to tackle their root causes, such as poverty, hunger and disenfranchisement of women.
They even want to impose a tax penalty on the parents of students who register to vote at their North Carolina college addresses, and pass the most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law in the country.
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