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On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
there is no more important right under the Constitution than voting, because who you vote for then determines the freedoms and the liberties that you get from all the other constitutional rights.
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia
Democratic · Texas

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Voting is the most crucial constitutional right affecting freedoms and liberties.

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