WASHINGTON, June 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats' sweeping legislation to overhaul federal elections, defeating Democrats' efforts to counter a wave of state-level voting restrictions.
Senators voted 50-50 in the evenly split Senate on advancing the For the People Act, failing to meet the threshold of 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.
Republican senators have united against the bill, decrying it as a partisan power grab and a federal overreach into state voting and election systems. Enditem
