President Biden
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Biden will sign an order directing agencies to increase access to voter registration material and reduce voting barriers for certain groups, including military and foreign voters, Native Americans, people with disabilities, and Native Americans.
The president on Sunday will also speak at the Unity King Martin and Coretta breakfast to outline the focus on voting rights. Order and speech mark the 56th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama. The violent clash between 600 civil rights protesters and white police officers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 served as a catalyst for the passage of the Rights Act votes.
“All eligible voters should be able to vote and count,” Biden will say at breakfast, according to prepared remarks. “If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let more people vote.”
Administration officials said the executive order is intended as a direct response to the violent insurgency at the Capitol on Jan. 6, triggered by weeks of false claims by former President Trump and his allies about election fraud of 2020, as well as subsequent efforts by state legislatures to regain voting rights.
Biden’s executive order will cause federal agencies to use their websites and social media platforms to share voter registration information and distribute email voting apps during regular services.
The order also aims to modernize Vote.gov, an official voter registration site run by the federal government, to improve accessibility and enhance the user experience.
The rest of the order focuses on strengthening voter access to specific groups most likely to face obstacles to voting. For example, the order will direct the Attorney General to establish protocols to provide educational material on the voting of eligible persons under the jurisdiction of the Federal Office of Prisons.
The order will also establish a steering group on Native American voting rights.
“The president uses his voice, his authority to make clear his view that people should choose by voting what they want and should be able to vote on the best ideas, and that it is not democratic to discourage access to the vote,” he said. said the administration official.
Biden’s steps to improve access to voting will not replace state laws, as elections are administered by state and local officials. Republican states, in particular, have made rapid progress in restricting access to the polls after the 2020 elections that saw record turnout and an increase in e-mail voting amid the pandemic.
Overall, more than 250 bills have been introduced in 43 states that would restrict access to the polls. The swing states of Georgia and Arizona have seen lawmakers take initiatives to limit absenteeism and early voting.
Congress Democrats have adopted radical reforms to strengthen voting rights, though the road to the pass remains bleak.
The House last week passed the For The People Act, which would require states to offer e-mail voting, a minimum of 15 days of early voting, and calls to register online and on the same day. The legislation also requires the creation of independent commissions to draw districts from Congress in an effort to end the imposition of partisan governments.
Republicans have joined the opposition in the bill, which would require at least 10 Republican Party votes in the Senate if all upper-house Democrats voted in favor. Biden has urged the passage of the bill.