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Fight over voting rights in Texas has San Antonio roots ‘System was rigged’ before Willie Velasquez fought back, says longtime attorney Fight over voting rights in Texas has San Antonio roots SAN ANTONIO – Before the late Willie Velasquez took up the fight for voting rights, “Latinos would go out to vote and vote in large numbers, but their candidates would continually lose,” Velasquez’s longtime friend, Rolando Rios, said. Rios, a Georgetown University law student at the time, worked alongside Velasquez, who founded the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project in 1974. “He got people registered, but then he realized registration is not enough,” said Rios, now a longtime voting rights attorney. “We needed to change the system.”

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