Cenk Uygur
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How Southern States Are Rigging The Election
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November 5, 2016
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10:26Now PlayingHundreds of polling places have been closed in the south. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, and Michael Shure, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Next week, Americans will hold the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
It’s a terrifying fact. The Voting Rights Act targeted policies that purposely kept black voters from the polls. But the US Supreme Court struck down part of the law in 2013, limiting the federal government’s oversight of states with long histories of suppressing minority voters.
As a result, states have passed more voting restrictions over the past several years — including controversial voter ID laws and cutbacks on early voting days and hours.
But a new report from the Leadership Conference Education Fund, a civil rights organization, finds another potential effect: Counties previously monitored through the Voting Rights Act have closed down at least 868 polling places since the Supreme Court’s decision — a 16 percent reduction among the counties analyzed in the study. And out of 381 counties in the study, about 43 percent of them cut back on voting locations. (The report only looked at about half of the counties previously covered by the Voting Rights Act due to some limitations in the available data.)”
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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Michael Shure
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