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Policing at the Polls & BIPOC Voter Suppression in 2024
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Policing at the Polls & BIPOC Voter Suppression in 2024

Season 1 Episode 126

Voting should be simple, but we’re seeing more and more barriers — especially for BIPOC voters — this election. From efforts to eliminate same-day voter registration, new voter-ID laws, and vigilante style “election integrity” watchdogs turning up at the polls, voters in many states and tribal nations face serious challenges they’re working hard to overcome. Will all who want to vote be able to?

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