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Jeff Sessions: “I am not sure it has been conclusively settled one way or the other whether a properly conducted voter ID system is…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
I am not sure it has been conclusively settled one way or the other whether a properly conducted voter ID system is improper and discriminatory. Indeed, the Supreme Court has held that voter ID is legitimate, at least under certain circumstances.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the legitimacy of voter ID laws as upheld by the Supreme Court.

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