The president's plan to take a series of steps to promote voting access was being announced during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of “Bloody Sunday.”
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
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Biden also signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting rights access.
“Today, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I am signing an executive order to make it easier for eligible voters to register to vote and to improve access to voting,” Biden said in his remarks prepared for the breakfast.