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  • Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
    only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

    Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.
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