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February 27, 2019

Dems Introduce New Voting Rights Legislation
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Alabama Congressmember Terri Sewell introduced the Voting Rights
Advancement Act Tuesday, in a bid to restore and expand on the landmark
1965 Voting Rights Act. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the
Senate version of the bill. The legislation aims to revive a key tenet
of the Voting Rights Act that was gutted by a Supreme Court ruling in
2013, which removed the requirement that state and local election
officials get federal approval before making changes to the voting
process.


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