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Pete Buttigieg: “If you have to wait more than one hour in line to vote, do…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Talks with Rev. Al Sharpton, Live at National Action Network in NYC

Published | Video Starts at 25:35

… we've gotten so used to it, even just in the way it is now, let alone how much worse they're getting ready to make it. For example, I would argue If you have to wait more than one hour in line to vote, do you really have a right to vote that's being enforced? You shouldn't have to wait more than an hour to cast your vote. Ultimately, in the long run, I think this may not be something that we can fully resolve until we have a specific constitutional protection of that right to vote. (25:35–25:43)

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Asserts that waiting more than an hour to vote questions the enforcement of voting rights.

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