G. K. Butterfield

The right to vote was enshrined in the North Carolina Constitution, giving to African Americans the right to participate on equal grounds with Whites in the vote.

The real cost of voter ID in the State... puts a tremendous burden on the State and local boards of election without the funding to back up these obligations.

We are determined to fix Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, hopefully with bipartisan support, which was invalidated by the Court.

In 2013, they passed the Senate Bill 666 during this very week, Holy Week, 666. It was the worst attack on voting rights we have seen since Jim Crow.

I believe the original voter ID law passed by the legislature was struck down by the court.

Voter ID is required in an election occurring less than a month from now.

After the Shelby decision was made, the State came up with a voter ID requirement in North Dakota.

There was an intentional decision to get rid of the right to vote by multi-member districts and at-large campaigns.

We are trying to create a contemporary record that will be valuable and relevant in the inquiry that we are engaged in.

We must restore the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime.

This was an act that was coordinated by the former speaker, now Senator Thom Tillis, and a host of other regressive lawyers, led by Thomas Farr.

In North Carolina, that is basically a nonstarter. There is very little voting fraud in North Carolina.

The ability to vote was taken away from African Americans in 1900 with the passage of the literacy test.

We must have a restoration of the Voting Rights Act in this country.

If you can be registered for war at 18 automatically, you should be registered to vote automatically at 18, to expand the vote.

I am proud of Halifax County, I am proud to be their Representative, and I am proud to have this hearing today.

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.

Let me thank you, Chairwoman Marcia Fudge, for your friendship, and thank you for your leadership.

I am haunted by that question the Federal judge asked: Why is it that people don't want people to vote?

It is certainly wrong morally. I believe it is a fundamental undermining of democracy for those who have been unconstitutionally elected to then have the power to affect the lives of the people.

Access to the ballot should not be a party-line decision.

An audit of votes in the 2016 general election found one case of in-person voter impersonation out of 4.8 million votes cast.

There was an intentional decision made at that time to disenfranchise African Americans.

Attorney General Barr has a solemn obligation, as Attorney General, to provide the American people with definitive answers about the President's conduct and whether President Donald Trump violated the trust that the American people have…

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