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Barack Obama: “The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five…”

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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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

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

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