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I would say the new normal is you will see more visible ICE presence out in the communities.

It is a critical time. It is a time of maximum chaos and political turmoil, orchestrated by a vindictive president seeking scapegoats.

Has the loss of preclearance made it more difficult to track these changes at the local level that could have--that could have a discriminatory effect.

And I am running out of time, so if you could truncate your response.

After the Shelby decision was made, the State came up with a voter ID requirement in North Dakota.

We are trying to create a contemporary record that will be valuable and relevant in the inquiry that we are engaged in.

We must restore the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime.

Access to the ballot should not be a party-line decision.

Voter ID is required in an election occurring less than a month from now.

The real cost of voter ID in the State... puts a tremendous burden on the State and local boards of election without the funding to back up these obligations.

An audit of votes in the 2016 general election found one case of in-person voter impersonation out of 4.8 million votes cast.

In North Carolina, that is basically a nonstarter. There is very little voting fraud in North Carolina.

It was aimed at all those measures that we had taken over the previous 30 years to ensure participation and access to the ballot for all the citizens of this State.

I want to assure you that your testimony today will be in the Congressional record.

It is certainly wrong morally. I believe it is a fundamental undermining of democracy for those who have been unconstitutionally elected to then have the power to affect the lives of the people.

I am haunted by that question the Federal judge asked: Why is it that people don't want people to vote?

If you can be registered for war at 18 automatically, you should be registered to vote automatically at 18, to expand the vote.

I believe the original voter ID law passed by the legislature was struck down by the court.