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rights act. among other things, it prohibited states from denoying the person a right to vote based on race or color. yet, in 2013 the supreme court up ended a major part of that law. >> it e viserated a ckey component. preclearance. it's before they could implement a new law dealing with voting or a new policy dealing with voting, it had to be okayed first by the u.s. department of justice or by the federal court in d.c. >> that part of the law was meant to prevent states with a history of racial discrimination from passing restrictive voting laws. and though democrats are proposing voting bills broad in scope, many in washington see reinstating preclearance as the

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