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Dick Durbin: “There are nefarious, devious ways to make it tough to vote.”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Speaks Against Efforts To Restrict ' Voting Rights & Supreme Court Decision In Callais

Published | Video Starts at 05:44

Why do we have to continue to have a provision in the law to protect your right to vote? Well, my experience as a congressman and as a senator has been that There are nefarious, devious ways to make it tough to vote. You could draw a map that basically says you'll never get to vote for anybody you want. You're always stuck in the wrong district, the wrong place. That's called gerrymandering. (05:44–05:50)

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Asserts that there are underhanded methods used to make voting difficult.

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