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Kendrick Meek: Studentsuffrage.com. They have good information about voter suppression. I just want to from that e-mail let you know…

On the recordJuly 20, 2004
Studentsuffrage.com. They have good information about voter suppression. I just want to from that e-mail let you know, we have to remind the American people and Members of the House, this is not the 30-something report. This is not the Representative Tim Ryan report nor the Representative Kendrick Meek report. This is for real. People who would think we are joking, it is unconscionable for someone to even put a sign out as much as we are trying to encourage young people to come out and to take part in this democracy, that anyone would say that you would suffer financially from voting. Leave alone from voting, from registering to vote. I am from Florida. Do not get me started. I am just going to say that when we look at individuals taking part in this democracy, we are not talking about Democrats only. Let us make sure we are straight on that because we will get some folks who come in on the other side of the aisle, the 30-something Dems, they have Dems on the back of 30-something, they are only fighting to make sure the Democrats have a right to vote. That is not true. We want Republicans to vote. We want independents to vote. We want democracy. We want to make sure that their voices are heard. We want to make sure that we have a better America as we move forward. If we do not have a voting America, then we are not going to have a better America. If they are not turned on or turned off about what is going on, we need individuals like WWE.…
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Kendrick Meek
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Addressing voter suppression and the importance of participation in democracy.

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