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Chuck Schumer: “More than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people…”

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But secondly, what they are proposing in this so called save act is like Jim Crow 2.0. They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that More than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate. We are fighting it tooth and nail. It's an outrageous proposal that is, you know, that shows the sort of political bias of the maga, right? (06:28–06:36)

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Asserts that proposed voter ID laws would disenfranchise over 20 million people.

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