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Emanuel Cleaver: Requiring voters to provide a specifically narrowly defined piece of photo identification is unnecessary.

On the recordSeptember 7, 2011
Requiring voters to provide a specifically narrowly defined piece of photo identification is unnecessary.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of voter ID laws lacking evidence of fraud.

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