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Warnock: GOP voting restrictions resurrect ‘Jim Crow era’

by Bill Barrow
| March 17, 2021 12:06 PM

Sen. Raphael Warnock, whose election as Georgia’s first Black senator gave control of the chamber to Democrats, used his first floor speech on Capitol Hill to blast a wave of Republican-backed measures that would make it harder to cast ballots in states around the country.

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