Can I respond that I do agree with the gentlewoman that fraud does occur, and when it occurs, we ought to prosecute it. When fraud occurs, we ought to put those people in jail, because they undermine the rest of us who are voting honestly and fairly. What we ought not do is respond to that by making it more difficult for many Americans to cast the basic right that they have as American citizens, the vote.
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