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Burgess Owens: “It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of the era that we grew up in with a…”

On the recordJune 23, 2021
It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of the era that we grew up in with a State law that only asks people to show their ID.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Owens criticized comparisons of current voting laws to Jim Crow laws.

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