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Alyse Galvin

25:58 - 26:36

“When I would be comfortable supporting it if I knew we actually had a problem. If somebody said, look at all these voters who shouldn't have voted. Well, you just heard from our representative from the Umeå district that that has happened in the Samoan community.”
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From the transcript

And yet it's the very same card because our system somehow has created fear. And my worry is that this particular ballot measure is going to engender more of that, more of this sort of action and more of this sort of fear. When I would be comfortable supporting it if I knew we actually had a problem. If somebody said, look at all these voters who shouldn't have voted. Well, you just heard from our representative from the Umeå district that that has happened in the Samoan community.

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