The US President wanted to put in place a common framework for the whole country for the organization of federal polls. The objective was in particular to return to measures put in place in some Republican and Discriminant states of the blacks.
Le Monde with AFP
This is a more setback for the American president. Senators stuck on Thursday, January 19, his great electoral reform with which the president promised to protect access to African-American urns. The organization of elections is more than ever a hot topic in America.
At ten months of the mid-term legislative, the Democratic leader wanted with his reform to pose a common framework for all States on the organization of federal polls in the United States. It intended to cancel a series of restrictions adopted in about fifteen states since the presidential of 2020.
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According to NGOs, these restrictions deliberately discriminate from black voters, in the majority to have voted for Joe Biden at the last election. In the Republican States, it is inscribed on the contrary that these measures reinforce the security of the polls of the country, a strong argument with their constituents, still numerous to believe that the presidential election of 2020 was “stolen” in Donald Trump.
Democrats in the Senate were looking at Joe Biden’s great reform at all costs to undo these measures before the mid-term elections. But the Republican opposition, winds against this law that would believe in the democrats the control of the polls across the country, made block Wednesday night. She has deprived the Democrats of the “SuperMaity” of 60 votes required in the Senate to close the debates and submit the text to the vote.