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On the recordJuly 18, 2021
I am very struck that there was a significant factor of using long lines and fewer voting locations targeted at communities of color, and it is just wrong on every moral, ethical, and perhaps legal level.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley condemns the impact of voting location reductions on communities of color.

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