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On the recordJanuary 19, 2022
I am glad to use Rhode Island as a unit of measure. It is also smaller than a number of Colorado counties, but it has its charm. It has its charm. It has water, which we don't have in the State of Colorado. But just let me say--because I am here with my colleague from Colorado who, when he was Governor, did a lot to make sure that people would have the right to vote in our State--in contrast to Houston, where there is 1 drop box, in my hometown of Denver, where there are 500,000 registered voters, we have 40 drop boxes in Denver. We are a lot smaller. We have 40 times the number of drop boxes that they have in Houston. After Georgia's Republican secretary of state refused to buckle to President Trump's demand to find, somehow, another 11,000 votes--you remember the phone call. I am not making it up. You heard it with your own ears. He called him up, and he said: Well, find 11,000 votes. The guy said: No, I am not going to do that. Now the legislature has removed him from the State election board. So this isn't just about making it harder for people to vote, although it is making it harder for people to vote; this is shoring up the soft spots that prevented Donald Trump from being able to assert, credibly, that somehow the election had been stolen from him.…
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

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