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Michael Bennet: “This law, which included citizenship documentation…”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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Bennet Condemns Trump's Voter Suppression Bill on Senate Floor

Published | Video Starts at 10:40

All of this will have to be done in person. Kansas tried to implement its own state level Person of President Trump's Save America act in 2013 with disastrous results. This law, which included citizenship documentation requirements, ended up blocking the voter registration of more than 31,000 US citizens who were otherwise eligible to vote. That represented about 12% of all Kansas voter registrations during that period. Even Kansas Republican Secretary of State, who championed the bill when he was a state legislator, has warned against the Bill now before us. (10:40–10:48)

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