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Steve Cohen: the five States with least access to voting by mail, my home State of Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and…

On the recordJune 2, 2020
the five States with least access to voting by mail, my home State of Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, are all States that had slavery.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen points out a correlation between historical slavery and current voting access issues.

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