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Jesse Jackson urges East Tampa residents to fight Florida's controversial elections laws listen

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Tags: Jesse Jackson, Rainbow-PUSH coalition, elections, Voting rights, state legislature, Arthenia Joyner, Alex Sink, ACLU

Many Floridians are up in arms about changes to state election laws. Critics say the new laws aim to restrict turnout among those who tend to vote Democratic, especially low-income minorities. Yesterday one of the most well-known civil rights champions was in East Tampa urging residents to fight the new laws with all their might.

As fellow civil rights activists urged the crowd to do battle against changes to the way Florida votes, the Reverend Jesse Jackson sat on stage in a throne-like c...