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Kendrick Meek: “We still have the voter suppression issue that is alive and well in America. We have been getting the vote out through…”

On the recordJune 22, 2004
We still have the voter suppression issue that is alive and well in America. We have been getting the vote out through the Rock the Vote effort and also a lot of other folks who are out there, making things happen, sharing with young people who are going to be on college campuses this fall, that they can register where they are going to school, whether it be community college or wherever. So we ask them to go do Rock the Vote because we still have a problem with supervisors telling people even in summer terms that they cannot register. Once again, in 1975, the Supreme Court spoke to that issue saying, you can vote when you go to school so that your voice can be heard in this upcoming election.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Addressing voter suppression and encouraging young people to register to vote.

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