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The Right to Vote: A Precious Right Available in a Free Country (Sen. Orrin Hatch)

by Utah GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch - 09/20/07 10:49 AM ET

Images of Iraqis with purple-stained fingers were so compelling because those citizens had participated in electing those who would govern them. They had exercised what our Supreme Court calls the “precious right

Neither of the two Republican objections has sufficient merit to justify allowing these injustices to continue. The constitutional objection is based on a single word in Article I, Section 2, which says that the House “shall be composed of members chosen…by the people of the several states.

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