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Tammy Baldwin: “The Voting Rights act has been evacuated by the United…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Wisconsin U.S. Senate Debate

Published | Video Starts at 44:41

They are at no point to vote. My grandmother broke her hip and voted in my first congressional election from her nursing home. But The Voting Rights act has been evacuated by the United States Supreme Court. And we've got to add back the provisions that were lopped off by the Supreme Court. And we also, I think, have to pass at the federal level laws that guarantee access and disclosure. (44:41–44:48)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act.

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