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Mazie Hirono: “The racial gerrymandering is going to be okay unless the…”

Featuring: Mazie Hirono, Democratic | U.S. Senate Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 03:15

Over three cases, they succeeded in getting the voting rights. And don't tell me that the provisions of the Voting Rights act still exist in a way that is pretty much unenforceable, because The racial gerrymandering is going to be okay unless the legislative body that does the gerrymandering says, oh, by the way, we intend to racially discriminate. Are you crazy? You think that state legislators are going to be that overt about it? Of course not. So you have a Voting Rights act that you claim is still intact. (03:15–03:27)

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Asserts that racial gerrymandering will be permissible unless explicitly stated as discriminatory by the legislative body.

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