Chuck Schumer is suggesting that the ‘hard right’ is trying to discriminate against voters, saying that they are making a concerted effort to prevent people from voting. He even compares it to a racist poll tax (Radio Equalizer):
The hard right is really going at this right now and they’ve made a concerted movement to prevent people from voting in a variety of different ways. The worse way is they – you know, it’s no more that you can do a poll tax and say to black people its fifty dollars for you to vote for white people its fifty cents. There’s no more discrimination overt, but what they’ve done is they’ve come up with twenty different ways that make it much more difficult for people to vote.
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