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Debbie Dingell: “If you're a senior that's on a permanent senior absentee…”

Featuring: Debbie Dingell, Democratic | U.S. House, Michigan, District 6

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Published | Video Starts at 43:36

It also makes it, it discourages absentee voting. It makes it difficult if your military look overseas. You have to go through a whole re registration process. If you're a senior that's on a permanent senior absentee senior list. Seniors. It discourages and suppresses voting the way that it is. Many seniors aren't able to get to the polls. They're on an AV list. If you're a woman, and I'll tell you just two stories, your ID has to match your birth certificate unless you've got a marriage certificate. (43:36–43:46)

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Asserts that the SAVE Act discourages and suppresses voting for seniors on absentee lists.

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