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And in those jurisdictions, do you find African American communities and other minority communities submerged in these at-large systems and their votes are diluted?

We are notorious for cutting off witnesses, so please don't take this personally, but the five minutes go pretty fast.

Thank you for your testimony today. You have been on the front lines in this State for a very long time.

We must have a restoration of the Voting Rights Act in this country.

In 2013, they passed the Senate Bill 666 during this very week, Holy Week, 666. It was the worst attack on voting rights we have seen since Jim Crow.

This was an act that was coordinated by the former speaker, now Senator Thom Tillis, and a host of other regressive lawyers, led by Thomas Farr.

We must have a full restoration of the Voting Rights Act in this country.

There was an intentional decision to get rid of the right to vote by multi-member districts and at-large campaigns.

The right to vote was enshrined in the North Carolina Constitution, giving to African Americans the right to participate on equal grounds with Whites in the vote.

There was an intentional decision made at that time to disenfranchise African Americans.

We are determined to fix Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, hopefully with bipartisan support, which was invalidated by the Court.

The ability to vote was taken away from African Americans in 1900 with the passage of the literacy test.

I am proud of Halifax County, I am proud to be their Representative, and I am proud to have this hearing today.

Attorney General Barr has a solemn obligation, as Attorney General, to provide the American people with definitive answers about the President's conduct and whether President Donald Trump violated the trust that the American people have…

Let me thank you, Chairwoman Marcia Fudge, for your friendship, and thank you for your leadership.

And so certainly the citizens of North Dakota who have been disenfranchised and marginalized by voter laws certainly need to take up the right and to bring attention to action.

Did I understand that 1.4 percent of the--5.5 percent of the State's population is Native American--does that sound right, 1 out of 20, perhaps?--but 1.4 percent of the legislature is Native American? That is a huge disparity.

Please know that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is available to the citizens of North Dakota.