Alaska senators oppose voting rights bill, signal support for narrower move.
Alaska’s two U.S. senators voted Wednesday againstthat Democrats and civil rights leaders said would strengthen access to voting and make elections more fair across the country.
That bill is comparatively more narrow — designed to address a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that made it harder for the federal government to block racially discriminatory voting laws and redistricting proposals. “We have devolved into a debate over voting rights versus voting rules. And you got part of the country that thinks this bill is about protecting the right to vote. Another part believes that this bill will do nothing but undermine it,” Murkowski said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “Both sides are now set to cast doubt on elections if they don’t win.”“A federal power grab in terms of elections is not what’s needed,” Sullivan told the Anchorage Daily News on Wednesday.
Alaska law allows for 15 days of early in-person voting. The state is one of 44 and Washington D.C., to offer early in-person voting, with the average number of early in-person voting days clocking in at 23, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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