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Biden signs voting rights order on Bloody Sunday anniversary. Heres what it does Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Mar. 7—President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting access — marking the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. The order, which Biden discussed at the Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast, will work to expand access to voter registration and information, aim to increase access to...

On this day in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protestors crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The protestors were seeking justice and to ensure their right to vote would not be denied. At the head of the march were former Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Hosea Williams. As the troopers advanced with clubs raised, the group knelt in prayer. The images of protestors, bloody and bruised, flashing on television screens across the nation spurred Congres...

Biden signs voting rights order for anniversary of Selma’s 1965 ‘Bloody Sunday’ march Updated Mar 07, 2021; Posted Mar 07, 2021 US Vice President Joe Biden helps lead the annual crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating Bloody Sunday, the violent 1965 clash between law enforcement and protestors on the historic bridge during a march for voting rights, Sunday, March 03, 2013, in Selma, Ala. Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com ORG XMIT: ALBIN101AP Facebook Share Biden also signed an executi...

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:     Section 1.  Purpose.  The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy.  Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties...

Six or nine months from now, when the child credit needs to be extended, “pro-family” Republicans will be unified against it. Democrats need to be savage in their attacks on the GOP for that. I’m grumpy about the minimum wage, (and that fight isn’t over), but I think Biden, Harris, and the team’s strategy folks are teeing up a powerful economic message, and total Republican opposition is really risky given the 70% across the board public support. And the profligate waste of the Trump-...

Northern Star February 26, 2021 What are consolidated elections? The consolidated elections happen in odd-numbered years. This election, which always falls on the first Tuesday of April, is to elect municipal, township, park district, library district, school district, community college district, regional office of education trustees and fire district officials.  The offices up for election are mayor, city clerk, treasurer, alderpeople or trustee as municipal officials, supervisor, clerk, asse...

Deadline to request absentee ballots for Maud school bond election nears

Home | News & Events | Special Election in Louisiana’s 2nd and 5th Congressional Districts The State of Louisiana will conduct two special primary elections on Tuesday, March 20, 2021, to fill a vacancy for the 2 nd and 5 th Congressional Districts. Congressional District 2 includes nearly all of the city of New Orleans and stretches west and north to Baton Rouge. Congressional District 5 includes rural northeastern Louisiana and much of central Louisiana, as well as the northern part ...

Grove bond election: Deadline to request absentee ballots is Feb. 2

Updated: Dec 24, 2020 10:33 AM Absentee Ballot Deadline Nears for Pawhuska Election   Garrett Giles Less than a week remains for registered voters in Osage County to apply for absentee ballots to be mailed to them for the Tuesday, January 12th, 2021, City of Pawhuska Special Municipal Election Osage County Election Board Secretary Kelly Chouteau said today. Applications for absentee ballots must be received by the County Election Board no later than 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 5th, 2021, t...