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Biden marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ by signing voting-rights order
Associated Press via WSPA News7 ^ | March 7, 2021 | Aamer Madhani, Aaron Nolan

Posted on 03/08/2021 6:41:22 AM PST by buckalfa

President Joe Biden signed 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 announced 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.

“Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have it counted,” Biden said in his remarks to Sunday’s Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast before signing the order. “If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let the people vote.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenorders; despotism; dictatorship; executiveorder; newbidenorder; selma; voting
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“If you have the best ideas, you have nothing to hide. Let the people vote.”

To which Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father would reply:

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.”

1 posted on 03/08/2021 6:41:22 AM PST by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

Our country is broken. Too many bad ideas have taken hold that are difficult, if not impossible, to reverse.

The lights from the shining city on a hill are being extinguished.


2 posted on 03/08/2021 6:44:45 AM PST by Starboard
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>>“Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have it counted,

Every illegal voter should be prosecuted and every ballot stuffer should face sedition charges up to and including the death penalty.


3 posted on 03/08/2021 6:45:33 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: buckalfa

“Just sign it, Joek.”


4 posted on 03/08/2021 6:51:35 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: buckalfa

“to counter efforts to restrict voting access” = enable fraud as we know Americans hate us.


5 posted on 03/08/2021 6:56:25 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Starboard
This is all about securing their power indefinitely.
6 posted on 03/08/2021 6:58:17 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: caww

They have a party that fights for them. Unfortunately, we don’t.

Those with the strongest will to win usually do.


7 posted on 03/08/2021 6:59:52 AM PST by Starboard
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To: buckalfa

Joe wants federal employees to get time off to work as NON-PARTISAN volunteer poll workers. There are not any non-partisan federal employees.


8 posted on 03/08/2021 7:00:03 AM PST by Savage Rider
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To: caww

Bear in mind also that the U.S. Supreme Kangaroo Court enabled what is about to happen to our republic.


9 posted on 03/08/2021 7:01:43 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard
“Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have it counted,”

Once and only once in his voting precinct. And zero for people ineligible to vote. And one of the ways to verify those is having a photo ID matching the voter with his registered and verified information.

Multiple voting and illegal voting are just as bad as having gun wielding thugs outside the polling place preventing people from entering.

10 posted on 03/08/2021 7:02:50 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: buckalfa

Thank God the Banana Republicans are fighting for us....


11 posted on 03/08/2021 7:03:30 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Starboard

Bingo


12 posted on 03/08/2021 7:04:50 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: buckalfa

The President does not have to authority to do this. The states can ignore it.


13 posted on 03/08/2021 7:05:55 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: caww

Very true. The Democrats work off the principle of never giving a sucker an even break. But the Republicans have convinced their suckers[voters] that they will clean the streets with Democrats in 2022. And a Republican will safely ensconced in the White House again in 2024. Should one pay attention, it sounds like the “Elect me and I will repeal obamacare” they used so successfully.


14 posted on 03/08/2021 7:07:43 AM PST by sport
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The Republicans are in such disarray they don't know which end is up........not operating as a united front will get them nothing.
15 posted on 03/08/2021 7:18:01 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: buckalfa

Allowing newborns to vote is a backdoor attack on a woman’s right to abortion!


16 posted on 03/08/2021 7:26:44 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (It's a lie. It's all lies. Use every opportunity to poison their data. )
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To: Starboard
At this point anything that happens is because the election was a coup that wasn't stopped.....and obvious those who tried to stop it were unsuccessful. This is all the evidence needed to prove that it was and remains so..this is 3rd world politics.


17 posted on 03/08/2021 7:27:41 AM PST by caww ("Politics is not a game, but a serious business" - Churchill)
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To: caww

Oh we are, without any doubt, a third world banana republic now. The system is thoroughly corrupt and unaccountable.

The Coup will only be reversed if things get intolerably bad, and people start feeling some combination of personal pain and fear, which is quite likely IMO.

It takes a long time for bad things to work their way out of a system. We are in for a prolonged period of unsettled times.

Do what you can to protect yourself. Gonna be a rough ride.


18 posted on 03/08/2021 7:33:44 AM PST by Starboard
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To: buckalfa; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

So, on the anniversary of the Selma disaster, let’s make the vote of each Black person a little less secure.

Got it.

PING!


19 posted on 03/08/2021 7:35:11 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: caww

Looks like that is more for show. Would any sane prison use only one loose coil of razor wire like that. All you need is a few guys heavily clad in leather with some sharp implements. Snip snip, and you’re in!


20 posted on 03/08/2021 7:38:25 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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