Minorities voting rights at risk in US
Rony Curvelo
Press TV, Miami
Once again, the memory of the infamous Bloody Sunday in 1965 is more actual than ever. The 600 civil rights activists that were brutally repressed by state troopers while trying to march for the right to vote in the city of Selma, Alabama, have been remembered this week during its 56th anniversary. This episode forced the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be approved.
Voting rights movements indicate that many states continue to violate the act. They say that voters of color are more likely to face long lines at the polls and are disproportionately affected by voter identification laws and limited opportunities to vote by mail. Republicans disagree with this assessment.
Last Sunday, President Biden signed an order to federal agencies to expand access to voter registration and election information. It also determined that federal agencies develop plans to give federal employees time off to vote or volunteer in nonpartisan electoral positions.
Republicans remind that the president lacks the authority to overturn provisions on voting tights at the state level like the one recently passed by Georgia's GOP-controlled state House that early voting would require Congress's act.
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