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Raphael Warnock: “The same states that were discriminating prior to 1965…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Sen. Raphael Warnock on Trump, Redistricting Chaos, and the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 18:28

In other words, they're not the only ones. But the same states, and I love Georgia, but the same states I represent Georgia, The same states that were discriminating prior to 1965, within hours found new ways [to suppress votes]. They started doing things that make the lines longer in black and brown communities, purging people from the voter rolls, which Georgia's last two secretaries of state have been very good at, and all of these things. (18:28–18:43)

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Claims that states with a history of discrimination quickly found new methods to suppress votes after the Voting Rights Act was weakened.

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