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"We should not live in a state where it is easier for a young adult to purchase cigarettes and alcohol than it is to vote."
-- University of Minnesota student Sydney Jordan, who doesn't have an ID with her current address and said in a hearing that requiring a photo ID will keep a lot of college students from voting.
But Dan McGrath, executive director of the election watchdog group Minnesota Majority, told lawmakers:
"It's astonishing to me. I mean it's almost like the testifiers think there are armies of ninjas that they have to hand-to-hand combat their way through to the DPS station to get their free identification card. Some of the arguments I found ridiculous."
Read MPR's coverage of the voter-ID hearing here.
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