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Mark Kelly: “We had legislation in the Senate last Congress that called…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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LIVE: Senator Mark Kelly holds town hall in Tucson, AZ

Published | Video Starts at 53:06

It's convenient. But what happens when you vote by mail is more people vote. They don't like that. Remember what I said fewer people vote, they tend to win. So We had legislation in the Senate last Congress that called the John Lewis Voting Rights act. that would make some of these things, you know, nationwide vote by mail being one of them. In some states you can only vote by mail by the way, Oregon and Colorado I think now. (53:06–53:16)

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