Zellnor Myrie: “The Republicans spent a lot of money in opposition of this.”

“No excuse absentee balloting to remove the requirement that you had to provide an excuse to vote by absentee. This was temporarily put in place during the pandemic. We were looking to get it added to the Constitution. And The Republicans spent a lot of money in opposition of this. And they used extreme language to say that this would cause chaos to our democracy. This would allow for undocumented individuals to vote.” (23:15–23:20)

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