This bill aims to cancel, often very technical, adopted this year by at least 19 States to limit access to the urns of minorities.
Le Monde with AFP
Republican elected representatives in the US Senate refused, Wednesday, November 3, that a bill is debated facilitating access to the vote for minorities, threatened by the Democrats in several Conservative States.
This text, baptized by the name of the Civil and Parliamentary Democratic Democratic icon in 2020 John Lewis, aims to cancel, often very technical, adopted this year by at least 19 States to limit access to the polls Minorities, including African-Americans who vote mainly Democrat, according to the Brennan Center for Justice Reflection Group.
This is the third time that this bill, adopted in August by the House of Representatives, is blocked by the Republicans in the Senate, where he needs a majority of 60 elected to be approved.
“The soul of America”
President Joe Biden denounced this blockage. “Voting is a sacred and constitutional right, he hammered in a statement. The soul of America is”
Obligation to have an address to register on the electoral lists, prohibition of giving to drink or eating for voters in front of a polling station, prohibition to vote on accessible sites without leaving his car: here is some of the provisions of the thirty restrictive electoral laws adopted across the country.
This process has accelerated in Republican States on the background of charges, never demonstrated, of massive electoral fraud hammed by Donald Trump since the presidential election of November 2020.
The election holding is managed locally in the United States and the Republicans consider that the Congress exceeds its skills by wanting to decree how the elections must unfold. The obligation to have a piece of identification with a photo to vote is a measure of common sense, argue. Only the Republican senator of Alaska, Lisa Murkowski, voted Wednesday for the text to be debated. She had previously estimated that “all Americans deserved an equal chance to participate in our electoral system”.