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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Republicans in the Texas Legislature are attempting to dismantle provisions that helped bring about record turnout in urban areas last November through bills that would reportedly make Texas—which right before the presidential election was deemed “the state with the most restrictive voting process”—an even more challenging place to cast a vote. Certain restrictions would only apply to counties with a population exceeding one million, according to the New York Times, and some aspects of the legislation directly target ...

Question. and meanwhile, we'll have lots of voting changes all over north carolina, georgia, other parts of the country, that we won't even know about and the impact that those are having on african-american and latino voters. >> what do you mean by that, there will be changes we don't even know about? >> well, in the world of -- if the pre-shelby world, any time, if you were in a covered jurisdiction, any time you had a voting change, you had to let doj know, and then they would do a quick evaluation as to whether or not it may be problematic under the voting rights act. now people can make v...

Senator sessions doesn't need to look any further than his home state to find evidence of discrimination because shelby county, alabama, which brought this challenge to the supreme court, was guilty of a section 5 violation as recently as 2008. so, this is very much -- >> can you -- explain for me, what was going on in shelby county that -- >> so, there was a city in shelby county, passed redistricting plan that eliminated the only black city council district. took it from 71% african-american to 29% african-american. he lost that election by a few votes under a map that was not precleared by ...