Biden to Sign Executive Order Promoting Voting Access

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President Biden is expected to sign an executive order today directing federal agencies to take steps to promote access to voting

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President Biden is expected to sign an executive order Sunday directing federal agencies to take steps to promote access to voting, administration officials said, as a voting-rights bill he has endorsedThe executive order will call for the modernization and improvement of a government website that provides voting information; seek recommendations on federal employees taking the day off to vote or to volunteer as nonpartisan poll workers; ask for an evaluation of barriers to voting for those...

Mr. Biden will sign the order on the 56th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day police attacked peaceful civil-rights protesters in 1965 as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. The president is also expected to virtually address this year’s Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast, an event held annually in Selma, on Sunday.

Sunday’s presidential directive comes as Republicans in several states are pushing restrictions and requirements on early voting or mail-in voting. Administration officials told reporters that the order was a way to use the president’s moral authority to send a message to those states, but they acknowledged that Mr. Biden lacks authority to push back meaningfully on any state laws through executive action alone.

The executive order will also seek to increase voting access for active-duty military personnel and provide voter-registration materials to all eligible individuals in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It also pushes federal agencies to become designated as voter-registration agencies, if requested by a state.

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To my fellow minorites all of the states that currently have voter suppression. Remember those laws where made when the Dems where in office after the civil war. These were not laws Repubs made or passed they were laws already established by the Dems who the Repubs succeeded.

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But the GOP won't 'win' if everyone 18 and older gets to vote.

Stop the Democratic lies and terroristism. Parashat Nitzavim!

Do U Suppose that conservatives on SCOTUS try will to gut this, as with the Voting Rights Act of 1965? The rationale that voter suppression doesn't exist, because a Democrat is in WhiteHouse, is just as valid as Roberts saying racism disappeared 'cuz... OBAMA...'

Jan 27: Trump made an offer to President Xi Jinping to send experts to China to investigate the Coronavirus outbreak and was trend down. Trump started Operation Warp Speed not Joe. My Mom got the Covid shot and she is sick because the vaccines needs testing.

A federal law should exist to protect the rights of voters. The people's safety, ability, and right to vote should be protected by law. The people should not have to journey nor suffer to cast a ballot; we veterans have done that for them.

SassyPantsjj Another asshole move against conservtives.

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No Amount Of Money Will Make Up For The Lives Lost, And All Of The Suffering, Because Of The Lack Of Necessary Help, From Our Government. People died in their homes in Texas. People have suffered too much... For Far Too Long. ChangeAmerica ForThePeople OneNation Together

GOP believe that all poor people are minorities. Republicans hate poor people because they think the dignity of man is above being poor. It’s a reflection of a widespread belief among Republican officials that high voter turnout hurts their chances of winning elections.

Sad. Even with 52.3% vs 47% in favor of statehood, US citizens in Puerto Rico cannot vote. Democrats won the election with puertorican votes in the states and nothing have happened!

VotingRights

Next up Democrats will allow people who anyone on the planet to vote in our elections.

❤❤❤ Surprised you could bring yourselves to type those words opinion

More fake votes. Sweet

Maybe Biden can cut any kind of aid to States that are taking aggressive steps to limit voter access. (Texas)

He seems like a figure only.

Boom!!!

This guy has no clue what he signs. Jill just tells him the night before to sign what ever they put im front of him.

本気で、この共産主義へ向かう変な法律が通って良いと思いますか。 世紀末法と呼べる代物です。

You know the 2020 election was compromised even though this paper wouldn’t report it. The playbook is being cemented by the corrupt democrats

it has brought so much happiness and joy to my family I'm now free from loans issues , I'm happy to be amongst those talking good about you. Erla Lza

Only a dictator rules by executive orders.

What about mortgage relief and rent relief people are facing foreclosure and eviction.

Everytime he signs an exec order it hurts america

Best president of all time!

Good start. Georgia here: Now that COVID relief is done, let’s get the “For the People Act” passed now. Ram it through if you have to - we can’t wait. 2022 is around the corner. We need it now!

Boiiii! Biden isn't playing. Like it's nothing

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