Amy Klobuchar

The States have a very prominent role that needs to be done here.

I would certainly encourage the Federal Government to do that, as well.

If you have a State, like your story of Florida, where the lines are so much longer than other places... it creates incentives for the citizenry to start asking their elected officials.

Now, some States, when they get released from incarceration, then they just get to vote, I think, right?

We make it easy for people to vote.

And this would be because of technology, they are seeing improvements?

I am not an expert on the Census, so, this would be, like, additional questions you would add on, or----

It is just a matter of time.

I think we should have good, reasonable limits on contributions.

The situation we have now with these hundreds of millions of dollars drowns out the speech of regular people

This is about the DISCLOSE Act today.

Ultimately, it is all about the voter, and certainly, online registration...provides a service to the voter.

And, have you been able to show direct correlation with increasing voting?

I think there are two good things about online registration. One, picking up from what Professor Gerken said, is the cost. The second, as well, is accuracy.

I figure we need to make sure we are not comparing apples and oranges and that we are actually trying to compare things in the right way to figure out how we make the voting experience better and how we get more people to vote.

Thank you very, very much for your work.

I truly believe the integrity of our electoral system is at stake, and from what I am seeing, there is a bipartisan support in the public for doing something about all this outside money, but we are not seeing it here.

The purpose of this bill is to simply make sure that we have adequate disclosure to know that money is coming from

Certainly when McCain-Feingold was debated, virtually everyone on both sides of the aisle was in favor of transparency.

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If we do not get the data out, we are just putting our heads in the sand and hiding.

I think that is what creates that confusion.

So, a lot of times, it might involve mental illness when people do it.

I used to administer--prosecute the cases for eight years of any voting issues that came out of our county in Minnesota.

I think it was with the Joint Economic Committee, about the Census and some of the political things that surround it.