across the south and other states, copy mississippi. not until the passage of the civil rights act some 70 years later would black americans be allowed to vote across much of the south. it took a federal law. it took congress to stop these poll taxes and literacy tests. and right now in 2021 as dozens of republican led states are once again chipping away at voting rights bypassing new laws that revive many of the same practices and invent new ones, it is once again going to take action from congress to protect the voting rights of all americans but especially black and brown americans. a ballot initiative that gave ex-felons the right to vote in florida was taken away by republicans in that state who have been forcing the ex-convicts who are disproportionately black to pay all of their fines before being allowed to vote. they are making them pay a poll tax. in texas one of the major provisions of the new republican
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to door, you and your organization, because there s really been no effort to really even come out and bring a lot of these people out to register to vote. tell us what you found on the ground doing the hard work. well, i can tell you that first we learned that the only way to reach the ex-felons in florida is to go to their houses. the fact is that there s no way to identify who they are, where they live, what they have done, in any kind of an efficient way. so we have adopted the strategy of going door to door, in targeted neighborhoods. that s where we find that there s large number of unregistered voting age adults, and meeting with them and the second thing that we have learned is that most ex-felons don t know about amendment 4. now, you and i know about it because we read the newspapers and we watch wonderful