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Doug Collins: The right to vote is of paramount importance in a democracy, and its protection from discriminatory barriers has been…

On the recordOctober 16, 2019
The right to vote is of paramount importance in a democracy, and its protection from discriminatory barriers has been grounded in Federal law since the Civil War and more recently through the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Doug Collins
Republican · Georgia

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Collins asserts the significance of voting rights protection and its historical foundation in U.S. law.

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