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On the recordJanuary 28, 2019
Not only is ex-offender disenfranchisement wrong and anti-democratic in and of itself, many of these laws were deliberately designed and--admittedly at the time--designed to entrench white supremacy.
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Joe Neguse
Democratic · Colorado

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Critiques laws disenfranchising ex-offenders as anti-democratic and rooted in racism.

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