'On a 50-50 vote along strict party lines, the US Senate has failed to override a Republican filibuster of the voting rights act. Every single Republican voted <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jun/22/republicans-democrats-voting-rights-bill-senate-vote-new-york-primary-us-politics-live> to keep the bill off the floor, including the “reasonable” conservatives Romney, Mikulski and Collins. As for the bill itself, we should keep in mind the comment that Joseph Stalin purportedly made: “What matters is not who votes; what matters is who counts the votes.”' Read more: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2021/06/23/voters-rights-bill-who-gets-to-vote-who-gets-to-count-the-votes/?fbclid=IwAR0QVBTK48590avU_ht7wDfDukhCTTCF8tYDGNUyQt0eU427j6qAX33UbiA
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