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Bruce Elfant
Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin
"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2015
Arthenia Joyner
Arthenia Joyner
stated on July 30, 2015 a letter to Jeb Bush
Says Jeb Bush "significantly cut early voting prior to the 2008 presidential election."
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By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on July 27, 2015 a Telemundo News interview
Says in 2002, he "won more Hispanic votes than Anglo votes, 60 percent in the state."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 31, 2015
Brianna Keilar
Brianna Keilar
stated on July 12, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Says Hillary Clinton's "campaign hasn't been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails."
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By Linda Qiu • July 12, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on July 5, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 8, 2015
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 30, 2015 a tweet
"Chris Christie has led New Jersey to a record-breaking 9 credit downgrades."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 4, 2015 a statement
Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."  
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By Lucas Daprile • June 29, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech
Says Scott Walker "cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote."
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June 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech at Texas Southern University
"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."
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By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech
"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."
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By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech
"In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting."
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By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on April 9, 2015 a news conference
"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."
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By Dave Umhoefer • April 16, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 26, 2015 an interview
More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, "I took a higher percentage of the Republican vote"and "yet I also carried independents by 12 points."  
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March 4, 2015
Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary
"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."
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By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015
Jeff Clemens
Jeff Clemens
stated on January 20, 2015 a Senate Ethics and Elections committee hearing
Online voter registration is a "more secure" way of doing voter registration.
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By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2015
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on January 7, 2015 a tweet
Says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans "for recent economic improvements" even though they took control of the Senate only "days ago."  
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January 14, 2015
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on December 7, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says President Barack Obama "has lost more members of the House and more members of the Senate than any president ever has lost" in modern times.
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By Jon Greenberg • December 7, 2014
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms
stated on November 28, 2014 an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed became a city resident in the last annexation, opening the door to his candidacy.
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By April Hunt • December 3, 2014
Jason Stanford
Jason Stanford
stated on November 17, 2014 a commentary
"Texas had the worst voter participation in the country" in the November 2014 elections.
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By Dylan Baddour • November 25, 2014
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on November 5, 2014 an interview
In Wisconsin, unions can essentially give "unlimited" contributions to political parties, but business can't give any. 
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November 21, 2014
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