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President biden has started the year with a renewed focus on voting rights. today he is in georgia, where he has been speaking in the last hour, imploring the us senate to pass new voting rights legislation. georgia is one of 19 states that passed new voting laws since the 2020 election. a 90—page bill supported by republicans in march, ends voting hours early, which means working people can't cast their vote when a shift is over. it adds rigid restrictions on absentee ballots. and it makes it a crime to provide water to voters while they wait in line. mr biden says the us senate needs to de...

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In the senate to talk out a bill, before it can be voted on. four times, in recent months, republicans have used it. mr biden, has said in the last hour, that it should be set aside, a so—called "carve out", so that voting rights legislation can progress. jim crow 2.0 is about two insidious things. voter suppression and election subversion. it is no longer about who gets to vote, it is about making it harder to vote. it is about who gets to count the vote, and whether your vote counts at all. it is not hyperbole, this is a fact. this matters to all of us. the goal of the former president's a...

Its voters since 1993, as far back as we could find. that is nearly 30 years. so something needs to change. we need accountability if people can get things done. president biden came here and he said it wasn't hyperbole, but it was. we have increased the numbers of days for early voting. we have photo id for early voting. we have photo id for early —— for absentee voting. it is early -- for absentee voting. it is illeial early -- for absentee voting. it is illegal now _ early -- for absentee voting. it is illegal now in _ early —— for absentee voting. it is illegal now in georgia for s...

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