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It's Friday, March 5th.

Today, a crisis of voting rates in state legislatures across the country

and before the Supreme Court.

Ladies and gentlemen of the House.

Miss Speaker, House Bill 531 is designed to begin to bring back the confidence

of our voters back into our election system.

Over the past three weeks, Republican state lawmakers across the country

have been proposing and voting on a variety of voting restrictions.

Amy Gardner covers voting issues for the post.

The bill addresses several different areas of elections.

Everything from restricting who's eligible to vote by mail

to how many early voting days there will be

to restricting the use of ballot boxes,

making witness requirements stricter, eliminating automatic voter registration

at DMVs, making it illegal for state and local election officials

to accept private sourced money to help them administer the elections.

Most Republicans say that these measures are needed to make elections more secure.

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