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Biden marking 'Bloody Sunday' by signing voting rights order

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 05: U.S. President Joe Biden (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs 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.His plan was being announced 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 says in his prepared remarks to Sunday’s Martin and.

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