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Quoting lines and wait times have been getting longer and longer and there is a reason for

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Boeing should take no longer than thirty minutes according to the presidential commission on election

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administration but in the twenty eighteen primary nearly half of latino voters

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and black voters waited an average of forty five percent longer than white voters that's in

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large part because people of color tend to live in communities where there are fewer electoral resources

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a problem that can be traced to one twenty thirteen supreme court decision in the

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nineteen sixty five voting rights act there was a provision that said any new

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election laws from states with the history of discrimination needed federal oversight

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and approval before implementation the provision was meant to be temporary but was

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renewed several times due to its success in decreasing the voter turnout gap between

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whites and black americans and twenty thirteen the supreme court overturned

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citing rising voter turnout rates in minority neighborhoods in other words the provision was deemed no

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longer needed twenty four hours after the supreme court

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decision texas mississippi and alabama enforced photo id laws that previously

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...under the provision proponents of the loss...policies combat voter

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fraud but eleven percent of eligible voters mainly people who are young and

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...rule neighborhoods do not have government issued photo id

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pulling closures also increased since twenty thirteen in arizona and georgia one-in-five

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...locations closed in texas more than

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one-in-ten closed and in louisiana and mississippi one

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...twenty flows to the closures mostly occurred in minority neighborhoods and even with mail-in

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...some states are not expanding the privilege during a nationwide

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pay endemic increasing fears that this year voting might lead to less turn out for

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higher infection rates moi.