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Before the election. let's say you did that. then there were literacy tests. they were advanced exams designed to trip up voters and disqualify voters. look at some of these questions. there we go. we'll put them up later. the grandfather clause exempted anyone whose grandfather had the right to vote from those obstacles. that was designed to help white voters because if you were a slave, you clear lly didn't hava grandfather who was able to vote. let's say you made it through all of that. if you could read and write or you had property and you paid your poll tax and you passed the literacy te...

The voter suppression he's engaged in for years. since 2012, he's been responsible, brian kemp, for 1.4 million registration cancellations. most recently, we found out there were voter purges last year after he announced his can canada -- we have voters removed from the rolls. choosing the voters who may ultimately elect him or his opponent into the gubernatorial office. >> what does the law say about what you can and can't get away with. the fascinating thing about voting rights in the country, they're shot through with bad faith. all of the efforts to suppress the vote, particularly in the s...

Million registration cancellations. most recently, we found out there were voter purges last year after he announced his canada -- we have voters removed from the rolls. choosing the voters who may ultimately elect him or his opponent into the gubernatorial office. >> what does the law say about what you can and can't get away with. the fascinating thing about voting rights in the country, they're shot through with bad faith. all of the efforts to suppress the vote, particularly in the south after reconstruction, are take a literacy test, close a polling place. the question becomes what can yo...

Construct, they're not used to that. the people in power are not used to that. but what we combat that with is a lesson in civics. all of us, it doesn't matter your political affiliation to talk about what's happening in this country. if you take away loretta's -- voting is not a privilege. it's a right in this country. >> and it's something that we -- for decades. since the beginning of time, voter suppression has been a thing and it has been a tactic that has been used. we went from counting marbles, right, black people going in jim crow south to go to register to vote and having to take a l...

The rolls. hard toer to vote. easier to get off. we're seeing everything from difficulty registering to kicking people off the rolls. then as latosha said, the things in the middle, the intimidation that happens, when police are at the polling place, where poll workers are turning people away and not giving them their rights. >> that's right. >> then these act of intimidation that are subtle. >> what about this exact match thing? >> oh, yeah. >> you have a hyphen, say you get married, my wife left out the hyphen. it's two names. middle name and last name. if you go by the middle and last name ...