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Peter Welch: “The people writing the maps know exactly where they live.”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Ranking Member Welch Rebukes Supreme Court's Decision to Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights

Published | Video Starts at 02:42

It looks to be about 31%. But the other issue is 31% and zero. I'm just asking a smell test. Okay. I think you have to know where the voters live. The people writing the maps know exactly where they live. That's the whole point. Well, the point, though, is that we're not. We're not assigning seats based on race, so we're actually drawing geographic districts, but we are assigning seats. (02:42–02:46)

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Asserts that those creating electoral maps are aware of the voters' locations.

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