King family leads Arizona rally to mobilize support for voting rights bills

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Family members of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. honored his birthday today with a rally in Arizona to mobilize support for voting rights legislation. Arizona is one of 19 states that enacted voting restrictions in 2021.

Former President Donald Trump is also holding aState of play:

King's wife, Arndrea Waters King, and their daughter, Yolanda Renee King, also took part in a rally Saturday campaigning for voting rights in Phoenix. The family joined the predominantly Black Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church for the demonstration and chanted "no celebration without legislation."Family members of MLK also plan to lead a march on MLK Day in D.C. to urge the Senate and President Biden to enact federal voting rights legislation.

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What does Axios mean by “voting restrictions?” Poll taxes or literacy tests? Or simply rolling some rules back to 2018 procedures? This tells me nothing. Is Arizona just reforming things like moving Dropbox locations or is the state disenfranchising citizens?

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