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On the recordJanuary 28, 2019
it doesn't make much sense to me that the way to make our voting system more secure and more trusted is to empower the people who have degraded that system to come back and participate in it.
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Matt Gaetz
Republican · Florida

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Gaetz argues against restoring voting rights to felons who have compromised the system.

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