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Certain states that may be doing bad because they've done bad but excluding out other states that have done bad like pennsylvania? >> well, first of all, the voting rights act in general applies to the whole country. so the voting rights act outlaws voting discrimination based on race everywhere. section 5 is a very particular remedy to remedy a particular type and kind of discrimination that we saw most intensely, as ryan said, in the states that are a part of the geographic reach of section 5. so when congress passed the voting rights act in '65, they said okay, we have to stop, we have to g...

In the state of south carolina and in florida. this is states like pennsylvania, as you mentioned, chris, or wisconsin or ohio, states that are not covered by the voting rights act don't also experience voting discrimination. what congress realized is that the type of discrimination that e see in the coverage jurisdictions, those sections covered by section 5 where discrimination is most intense and where congress needed to have the strongest antibiotic to cure the racist discrimination in those coverage jurisdictions. >> let me bring this in here. since 2010, not long ago, state legislatures ...

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