From: ageinhippie@anashram.com

Biden Marks Selma Anniversary With Order to Expand Voting Access

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive
order on Sunday designed to make it easier for Americans to vote, White
House officials said, as Republicans across the country seek to limit
voting rights in the wake of the 2020 election.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-03-06/biden-marks-selma-anniversary-with-order-to-expand-voting-access

Biden's order comes on the 56th anniversary of the 1965 "Bloody Sunday"
when state troopers and police attacked civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, who were protesting racial discrimination at the voting booth.

On Wednesday Democrats in the House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation to update voting procedures and require states to turn over
the task of redrawing congressional districts to independent commissions.
That bill faces tough chances of passing the Senate.

Biden's order directs federal agencies to submit plans within 200 days
that outline steps to expand voter registration and distribute election information to voters. It also directs the U.S. chief information officer
to modernize federal websites and digital services that provide such
details.

The push by Democrats to make it easier to vote comes as Republican
lawmakers in dozens of states have moved to restrict voting access after
former President Donald Trump's loss in the November election.

Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election was rigged and criticized
vote-by-mail efforts put in place during the coronavirus pandemic. On Jan.
6, after a rally in which Trump urged them to fight, his supporters
stormed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were meeting to certify Biden's win.

"Our nation just witnessed an unprecedented insurrection in the Capitol.
And we are in the midst of newly aggressive attacks on voting rights
taking place right now in state legislatures all across the country," a
senior administration official told reporters on Saturday.

"As the president frames it in the executive order ... it is our duty to
ensure that registering to vote and the act of voting be made simple and
easy for all those eligible to do so," the official said.

More than 250 bills with provisions that restrict voting access have been introduced in 43 states during the current legislative session, the
official said, citing a report from the Brennan Center for Justice.

Biden's executive order will also direct federal agencies to assist states
with voter registration, push the General Services Administration to
submit a plan to modernize the website Vote.gov, and mandate measures to increase voting access for federal employees, overseas voters and active
duty military members.

### - quote: "The push by Democrats to make it easier to vote comes as Republican lawmakers in dozens of states have moved to restrict voting
access after former President Donald Trump's loss in the November
election."

lol now why oh why would 'anyone' ever seek to 'restrict' access to voting
in what is 'supposed' to be a democracy; ALL of them republican??

go fuckin' figure!? LOL ! :D

i mean, if the right-wing had THEIR way ONLY republicans would ever be
allowed to vote???

fuck that!

coz it's either a democracy or it isn't?

so why not go even one step farther and make it illegal NOT to vote??

because THAT way government would then be obliged to ensure that everyone
was ABLE to vote!

AND would forever END all this bs re election fraud once and for all :)

(having called bs on the voting system to such an extent, how can the right-wing possibly then oppose a better + more secure system for all
without looking like total frauds themselves??)

roflmao :))))

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