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Andrew Gray
16:10 - 16:31
“We're going to add this and it's going to change nothing in Alaska. And that's unfortunate because we do need to change it because a terrible injustice is happening”
- Speaker
- Andrew Gray
- Timestamp
- 16:10 – 16:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
From the transcript
We're going to add this and it's going to change nothing in Alaska. And that's unfortunate because we do need to change it because a terrible injustice is happening where folks who really can't vote anywhere, like, that's the bottom line. They come here as children, they spend their lives here, and they can't vote at all. And that's a tragedy. And so it makes me sad that this is probably going to pass.
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