If you just can’t vote for those reasons and your vote is not being counted, you’ve been denied the right to vote, haven’t you?
Sonia Sotomayor: “If you just can’t vote for those reasons and your vote is not being counted, you’ve been denied the right to vote…”
On the recordMarch 2, 2021
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Justice Sotomayor emphasized that if registered voters cannot vote due to technicalities, it constitutes a denial of their voting rights.
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