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scott brown who's running here in our home state of massachusetts for
reelection against elizabeth warren who is challenging him for that see is
outrage that people who might not vote for him are registering to vote this is
a fascinating story back in nineteen ninety three the national voter
registration act
which since ninety five has required governments to offer people the
opportunity to register to vote when they access government service are
getting a a driver's license and cetera uh... also applies when people apply for
welfare benefits when you apply for welfare benefits are supposed to be
offered
or asked to register to vote
now a number of groups have actually started suing states to ensure that the
law is being followed one of those lawsuits happened here in messages as
well as a woman complained she apply for welfare benefits
she was not
*** to register to vote he wasn't given that opportunity and rather than fight
the case massachusetts settled saying brian that federal law we have to follow
that
as part of the settlement
we're gonna offer voter registration by mail two almost half a million people
who hadn't been offered that possibility
when they apply for a number of different benefits as they should have
been so all the messages has agreed to do is made good on the prime non on the
promise that they made which is we're going on for people who apply for
welfare
the opportunity to register we didn't do that in person
we're going to mail something very straightforward answers compliance with
that with the federal law to be sure to the following no question of scott brown
sees this is a move to feel his senate seat which i guess he thinks
brightly belongs to him and people who
voted for him that
i don't know are on welfare so he has seized on the fact that one of the
four advocacy groups
in massachusetts that is involved in this case is chaired by the daughter of
elizabeth warren who is running against scott brown ok so war advocacy groups
are working on this issue scott brown has pulled out the fact that one of them
also employs elizabeth warren's daughter therefore
i guess those people shouldn't be allowed to vote right here see
is a conspiracy no question about it for the brown brown campaign put out the
statement that was very whiny
in forgets the fact that we're talking about a federal law and that's why
massachusetts agreed to the settlement he says i want every legal vote to count
it's outrageous to use taxpayer dollars to register welfare recipients as part
of a special effort
the bruised one political party
now i don't know
too much about these
crafted p_r_ statements from senators but
i'm troubled by any sentence that starts with i want every legal vote to count
i want every legal vote to count but is that language that concerns either of
you guys
he is not is not a good way to start a sense of no
certainly not when you're trying to when you're a standard heather
and presumably you're there as part of the american democracy where people
voted center is better
starting a sentence with i want every legal vote to count but
in whatever legal vote to count right and federal law is being followed here
by this make good about bring these people the chance to vote that's that's
it that's plain and simple what it is we could we could uh...
just say i want every week report account
not whenever it's montauk
notified almost a death sentence yes these are the keeping your a mini dolly
all you need is i want every legal vote to count but that's it that's all that
the entire party really uh...
so there are described brown uh...
maybe he'll be able to keep that senate seat uh... matty even with a all the
legal votes counted which i know something he'd certainly doesn't want