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Black voters matter

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Fatal police shootings of black people are fewer in states where black voter registration is higher.

Statistically, the higher the percentage of an eligible black voters are actually registered to vote in any state, the less likely it is that a black person in that state will be shot and killed by police.

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An Intriguing Link Between Police Shootings and Black Voter Registration by Maimuna Majumder for Wired.

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This entry was posted on October 11, 2016 at 7:00 am and is filed under Law and Justice, Politics, Race and Racism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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