These ideas are popular with liberals, centrists and a good number of conservatives too. And progressive activists have come to understand that this issue needs to be one of their top priorities. If the quality of our democracy doesn’t improve, many other policy priorities could be impossible to achieve.

I think the United States finally has the pro-democracy movement that it needs — a movement not only to fight back against efforts by Republican leaders to make voting harder but also to go on the offensive. My column today is about that pro-democracy movement and what should come next for it.

A couple of my own priorities are universal voting by mail and a voting age younger than 18. What democratic changes do you think are most important? Drop me an email with your thoughts, at leonhardt@nytimes.com.

On the same topic: Although the election is still too close to be called, Utah may join the list of states that have restricted gerrymandering through last week’s ballot initiative. The initiative holds a narrow lead in the latest vote count, writes Ben Lockhart of The Deseret News.

Two other important outcomes would be losses of anti-voter officials in Arizona and North Carolina. And both may happen, Daniel Nichanian notes (here and here). Nichanian, a political scientist, wrote a voting-rights manifesto for Vox in 2016 that remains relevant.