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Marco Rubio: “Chavez prohibited consular voting at one point and so did…”

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In order to have a real election, you will need to account for how Venezuelans living abroad are there consulates set up where they can come in and vote, because those were big polling places in the past. And in fact Chavez prohibited consular voting at one point and so did Maduro because they were losing those votes big time. as you can imagine. So there is a pathway here. We're not even nine weeks since Maduro was captured. I think life in Venezuela today is not good enough. (21:05–21:12)

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Asserts that Chavez and Maduro prohibited consular voting due to losing votes.

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