Barack Obama: “The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been…”

On the recordApril 10, 2014

The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the National Action Network's 16th Annual Convention in New York City

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