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Al Schmidt: “The percentage of new vote applications for new voters has…”

Featuring: Al Schmidt, Republican | Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Because the other ones are change of name, change of party, change of address, all important. And duplicate registrations that are not processed because they're duplicates of somebody who's already registered. But The percentage of new vote applications for new voters has increased by 55% since we implemented voter registration. The perversity of some of this is when you're measuring turnout is the more people we register, the lower, and I hope it increases the percentage of people who vote … (22:47–22:56)

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