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Jeff Merkley: “These things sound like legitimate operations moving to low polling location and so forth, but they can be used in…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2024
These things sound like legitimate operations moving to low polling location and so forth, but they can be used in extremely prejudicial manner.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley warns that legitimate election operations can be misused to discriminate against voters.

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