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Sherrilyn Ifill - What Happened to the Voting Rights Act? | The Daily Show

Published | Video Starts at 06:47

So this has been something he's been on for some time. He's a patient man. He's a patient. He's a patient man. Yes. So in terms of section 5, Section 5 is that the section where they said in these certain areas where there were racial exclusions and laws that explicitly did that, you would have to. Before you made a change to the way that you counted these votes. Appeal to the United States Congress. Well, not to the Congress. Not to the Congress. Not to the Congress. But section. So there's two big sections of the Voting Rights Act. (06:47–07:04)

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Asserts that Section 5 required certain areas with racial exclusions to get approval before changing voting procedures.

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