Biden marks Selma anniversary with order to expand voting access


  • World
  • Sunday, 07 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: A woman carries a sign reading "Go Vote" outside the Brown Chapel AME Church before the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, U.S., March 1, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Sunday designed to make it easier for Americans to vote, White House officials said, as Republicans across the country seek to limit voting rights in the wake of the 2020 election.

Biden's order comes on the 56th anniversary of the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" when state troopers and police attacked civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, who were protesting racial discrimination at the voting booth.

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