WASHINGTON, Jan 19 — The US Senate today will kick off a pair of votes on an election reform bill that is a top priority for President Joe Biden’s Democrats but faces dim prospects against a united front of Republican opposition.
Asked about Democrats’ chances of bringing an election reform bill across the finish line, No. 2 Senate Democrat Dick Durbin told reporters late on Tuesday: “I know what it looks like today and I’m praying that something else will happen tomorrow.” As Republican after Republican accused Democrats of trying to usurp states’ rights to administer elections, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock said their arguments “have sounded uncannily familiar” to segregationists’ opposition to civil rights legislation of the 1960s, which ultimately succeeded.
The battle over voting procedures and campaign finance reform comes against the backdrop of several Republican-controlled state legislatures stripping away some of the get-out-the-vote practices allowed in 2020 while piling on new restrictions.
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