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Early voting, redistricting: What's in the Democrats' voting rights bill going up for a vote in the Senate?

Posted on AllSides June 22nd, 2021
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Democrats in the Senate are trying this week to convince their Republican colleagues that updated voting rights legislation is necessary, but the bill they are bringing forward is unlikely to pass. 

The For the People Act, which passed in the House largely along party lines in March, is unlikely to pass the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a filibuster in the evenly divided Senate. In the House, one Democrat and all Republicans voted against it, and it has no Republican support in the Senate. One Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West...

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/22/for-the-people-act-whats-democrats-voting-rights-bill/5297401001/

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