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U.S. House passes voting rights legislation that has little chance of clearing Senate

Time:2021-08-25 16:23:00 Source: news.cn China Youth International

  The U.S. House voted strictly along party lines Tuesday to pass a Democratic-sponsored voting rights bill restoring federal oversight over state election laws, one that has little chance of clearing the Senate.

  Named in honor of the late civil rights icon and former Democratic Congressman John Lewis, the legislation was approved by the Democratic-controlled House in a 219-212 vote that saw no support from Republicans, who characterized the bill as a federal power grab that weakens states' role in regulating electoral processes.

  The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a major legal weapon Democrats relied on to combat voting restrictions recently enacted in Republican-led states, would reinstate certain provisions in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that were cut down by Supreme Court rulings over the last decade, making it easier to block state election rules deemed discriminatory to minority voters.

  "Old battles have become new again," said Terri Sewell, Democrat of Alabama who introduced the legislation. "I want you to know that the modern-day barriers to voting are no less pernicious than those literacy tests and those poll taxes," the Congresswoman said. "And what we must do, as we did back in the 60s, is when we see states running amok, we need federal oversight."

  One of the provisions originally contained in the 1965 law that the new bill seeks to restore requires states and localities with a history of discriminatory voting rules to get approval from the Justice Department before implementing any change to voting procedure.

  The new bill also attempts to strengthen Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was strengthened by Congress in the 1980s to prohibit states or other jurisdictions from implementing voting laws that discriminate against Americans based on their race, color of skin or identification with a language-minority group. Enditem

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