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She was sentenced to five years in federal prison and three years supervised release. >> so, you understood that if you're serving time you couldn't vote. >> yeah, i know that while you're incarcerated you couldn't vote. >> reporter: in exthe texas, fellens can vote after completing probation. but she was still on supervised release. she was sentenced to five years in state prison plus ten additional months on her federal sentence. >> would you have ever cast that ballot knowing it was illegal? >> i didn't get out and get a decent job, go to school, graduate from school to cast a ballot to lea...

They now say they're not going to be silenced from issues they're working on like immigration you want to they will me how four women are working on immigration and couldn't vote for the 4.6 billion dollars in -- humanitarian aid? is there is there jr. status give them excuse not to be smart too? >> well i think like many -- they're waiting for reintroduction of the 20 13 border security economic -- economic opportunity and immigration monitorrization act that would pass. >> go hungry? >> so look they want to have certain protections for immigrants in that bill. i think i can respect that. the...

Women are not paid equally, voter suppression. all kinds of things but it may be a big anniversary but it's not over. >> we hope we can celebrate the brave and courageous women who fought over 72 years, 1848, the first declaration of rights act, before women got the right to vote to 1920. it took 72 years. today is the anniversary, the 100th anniversary of the passage by congress finally sending the 19th amendment to the states. it's after it had taken 40 years to get that amendment through congress. it failed 28 times. what we want to talk about celebrate is teach americans this glorious hist...

District, with different representatives, and a different polling polling >> >> on election day for the primaries, i walked in there and they said that i couldn't vote because i wasn't registered in the district. >> reporter: so you registered to vote on campus, but the dorm you lived in meant that you actually couldn't vote on >> campus? >> i had i had to vote on a location, off camp >> reporter: nick >> reporter: nick knight and love caesar are students here. they spent a lot of time helping other students figure out how to >> vote. >> you think about electoral process, democracy, you think ...

How do we say at home in the south? it would be in the bat of an eye. i think it's important for us to stand the origin of the electoral college, too. madison, who is the genius behind our system, also understood in terms of apportionment, in terms of counting influence in states that southern slave holding states were at a distransbecause "black folk" couldn't vote. if we didn't have the election tra because black folk couldn't vote in that time. so the electoral and it seems to me, joe, if we're going to get beyond this, we need to understand that and perhaps teak seriously the idea of getti...