A group of eight Senate Democrats have introduced a new version of comprehensive voting rights legislation after months of negotiation to secure the support of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.).

The bill, now called the Freedom to Vote Act , is a streamlined version of the For The People Act, which the House passed in May and Senate Republicans blocked twice over the summer. It contains most of the former bills voting access enhancements, its ban on partisan gerrymandering and some of its campaign finance reforms. But it also adds new provisions including a national standard for voter identification and protections against partisan election subversion while jettisoning all of the federal ethics enhancements in the old bill.

Negotiations between Manchin and Democratic Sens. Amy Klobucher (Minn.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Raphael Warnock (Ga.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Tim Kaine (Va.) and Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine) began over the summer, after Manchin announced his opposition to the For The People Act and then released an outline of provisions he could support in a compromise bill. The new Manchin-led bill released Tuesday largely sticks to this outline while maintaining some provisions from the old bill.

The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy and the Freedom to Vote Act is a step in the right direction towards protecting that right for every American, Manchin said in a statement. As elected officials, we also have an obligation to restore peoples faith in our democracy, and I believe that the commonsense provisions in this bill like flexible voter ID requirements will do just that.

Democrats push for voting rights legislation comes as Republican-led states pass a historic wave of new voting restrictions , which are based on former President Donald Trump s lies about election fraud that led to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year.

Any threat to the democratic process is a threat to democracy itself, King said in a statement. In the face of state-level threats that undercut the fundamental right to vote for millions of Americans, we must act now to protect our democracy.

The compromise bill contains three buckets of policies: voter access and election administration, election integrity, and civic participation and empowerment.