Fact-Checking 6 Claims From Biden’s Voting Rights Speech

President Joe Biden made a plea Tuesday in Atlanta for Senate passage of two bills designed to expand the federal government’s role in state and local election laws, looking for another legislative success—after passage of an infrastructure bill—as he approaches one year in office. 

Biden and fellow Democrats have sought to frame the bills as “voting rights” legislation. 

However, speaking Tuesday afternoon at the Atlanta University Center Consortium on the grounds of Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, Biden made several claims that seemed at best to lack context, and in other cases seemed hyperbolic or untrue. 

The following are fact checks of six claims from the Biden speech.