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G. K. Butterfield: Has the loss of preclearance made it more difficult to track these changes at the local level that could have--that…

On the recordApril 17, 2019
Has the loss of preclearance made it more difficult to track these changes at the local level that could have--that could have a discriminatory effect.
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G. K. Butterfield
Democratic · North Carolina

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Butterfield inquired about the impact of losing preclearance on tracking voting changes.

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