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Joe Biden to mark Bloody Sunday by signing voting-rights order
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Joe Biden to mark Bloody Sunday by signing voting-rights order
AP / Mar 7, 2021, 16:32 IST
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US President Joe Biden (AFP, file photo)
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes as Congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict voting access.
Biden will announce the order during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 incident in which some 600 civil rights activists were viciously beaten by state troopers as they tried to march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama.