For them. But that is an a direct attack. Host bill in lynchburg, virginia. Caller to me, people claim that the Second Amendment is the most important thing. The right to vote is the most important thing right that we have, and republicans are doing everything they can, all over the country, to try to make it harder and harder for people to vote. We have holidays for everything, but the day that we elect the president or a congressman or something, many people cannot get there to vote and they are trying to make it even harder. To me that is the most important thing that we have in our constitution, is that right to vote. They do so much. Bill, what do you think about early voting, as well as a day off . Voting, they have tried to present that in some states they are working some have early voting. They make it difficult to get absentee ballots, you have to give some special cases are outright lie to get one. Now in virginia where they are oath,g about the loyalty i have another commen
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