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districts in such a way that ensures democrats get elected. that gerrymandering and the voting right stuff, all of those are components of the for the people act. which already passed the house of representatives. right? it s senate bill one, a landmark voting rights bill proposed by democrats in congress this year. of course, the for the people act was dead on arrival in the senate. republicans guaranteed it would never get any votes from them to pass. but the pressure to pass some kind of a federal legislation, to backstop voting, to codify protections around voting, that pressure remains and in some ways is increasing. just today, outside the white house, family members of john lewis, the late congressman, held a rally to try and pressure president biden to call the senate to end the filibuster. so democrats can pass the legislation even if they get zero republican votes. the washington post reports today that at the end of this
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in nine states this year all passed by republican legislators. all signed by republican legislators. those are done. nine of them on the books. and you know, all of these things that we re talking about. bottom line standards, protecting the right to vote. keeping partisan influence out of election administration. even doing away with partisan gerrymandering where they choose electoral districts in a way that guarantees more republicans get elected and democratic legislatures do their districts in such a way that guarantees more democrats get elected. that kind of gerrymandering and the election administration stuff and the voting rights stuff. all of those are components of the for the people act which already passed the house of representatives. it s senate bill one. landmark voting rights bill proposed by democrats in congress this year. the for the people act was dead on arrival when it got to the
guess,r counterintuitive, i hope. the intuitive thing is we have a very long historyñi of racial barriers in the south. if we look at the voting rights act of 1965, which is a landmark voting rights, civil rights provision, what we have is a bunch ofe1 southern states bein called out for clearanceqw3ñi supervision to make sure they re not gerrymandering based on race or other characteristics. that s intuitive one. then there s a bigçó debate goi on as to whether or not that s still the case. we know the voting rights has our war paint on, the rise of5a