If your premise is, look, this is the United States of America, and if you are 18 years or older and a citizen with minimal exceptions, you have the right to vote, exercise that right vote without any--without any unnecessary obstacles, then it is, how we achieve those in each State?
Alex Padilla: “If your premise is, look, this is the United States of America, and if you are 18 years or older and a citizen with…”
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Padilla emphasizes the right to vote without obstacles across states.
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