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Amy Klobuchar: Just the last thing I wanted to focus on is, I think, both Professor Levitt and Commissioner Weinberg, I liked some of…

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
Just the last thing I wanted to focus on is, I think, both Professor Levitt and Commissioner Weinberg, I liked some of the reasons you put forth for why Section 2 was not enough and why we need to look deeper in that, because one of the main things I see as an issue here is deterrence.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar discusses the inadequacies of Section 2 and the issue of deterrence in voting rights.

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