The behavior that you experienced was unacceptable, and there is no excuse for it.

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the bill you are considering can play a key role in confronting current efforts to limit voter registration and voting by minority citizens as well as diluting minority voting strength.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson.

Some have said this is a Federal takeover of the State's authority to regulate elections.

I would also like to enter into the record the 2021 report of the House Administration Committee and the Subcommittee on Elections on 'Voting in America: Ensuring Free and Fair Access to the Ballot.'

We have seen States move swiftly to reinstitute discriminatory changes.

the conditions that originally justified these measures no longer characterize voting in the covered jurisdictions.

The guideposts that were announced by the court in Brnovich had no textual basis and were contrary to the intent of the 82 amendments.