That was Act 10, 100,000 people protesting outside the state capitol. At the same time, they gerrymandered our maps to high heaven, locking in conservative majorities from Congress to the state legislature. They passed voter suppression laws that had a massive terrible effect on especially young voters and black voters, which was the intent, as a whistleblower later revealed. Uh, it was a, a full court press and then within government agencies they were throwing out the, you know, nonpartisan civil servants. They were clamping down on the use of any language. (02:32–02:42)
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Asserts that voter suppression laws in Wisconsin were intended to negatively impact young and black voters.
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