With the midterm elections just two weeks away, it was seen as an attempt to turn out the black vote.
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“The voter ID stuff that they’ve been talking about constantly as if there’s some sort of Republican conspiracy out there to deny blacks the franchise. It’s just not true. Black voter turnout in 2012 was higher than white voter turnout in 2012,” Riley explained.
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