US voting rights campaigner, Stacey Abrams, who helped Joe Biden become US president, nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

US voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote non-violent change via the ballot box.

Ms Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the US presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner.

“Abrams’s work follows in Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s…