Video: Matthews: Voting is a right, not an obstacle course

>>> let me finish tonight with this. voting in america should not be like chinese water torture . it should be available to any person willing to put in a reasonable effort to identify themselves, get themselves registered, and show up at election time. it's one of those areas where balance is the key factor. necessary to ensure the voters are who they say they are, make the process easy as possible and keeping it honest. don't throw hurdles in people's way. don't reduce the number of hours you can vote and create enough voting stations out there so we don't have lines stretching into the night . i believe what we saw in ohio in 2004 and what we saw last november in florida are examples of not meeting these standards. i do suspect that the people running those states at those times were not interested in making it fairly easy for a legitimate voter to get to the booth. consistent with the federal constitution , the government should do what it can to make voting a right not an obstacle course. that's

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