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America is the most renowned democracy on the planet. A government that is supposed to be for and by the people. And, yet, so many of us take a pass on exercising our most fundamental right of all, voting. A little more than half of the people in this country who can vote bother to show up at the polls, even when the stakes are highest, in a president ial election. In nonpresident ial years, turnout is much worse. So whats wrong with our democracy . As we head into the 2020 elections, that quest...

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I mean, it was beyond suspicious. it was audacious because this is a trump administration that has not done anything in any other context to enforce the voting rights act. they treated it as though its an inconvenience. the notion that suddenly theres this burning need to protect minority voting in america from this administration. its not only short of paradoxical in light of how they treated minority voting, its also just a flat-out lie. >> that lie was exposed when tom halford, gop, died, and...

Paradoxical in light of how they treated minority voting, its also just a flat-out lie. >> that lie was exposed when tom halford died and his daughter discovered documents among his private possessions. >> his daughter finds these zip drive with information that shows he had engineered this as a plan explicitly to suppress minority votes. >> in the files, he indicated a citizenship question would help republicans in the redistricting process by discouraging hispanic communities from responding t...