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Deborah Koff Ross: “When you suppress the right to vote, in essence, you are suppressing people's humanity.”

On the recordMay 26, 2021
When you suppress the right to vote, in essence, you are suppressing people's humanity.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Voting suppression equates to denying people's humanity and citizenship.

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