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Bill Clinton Signs Motor Voter Bill
In May of 1992 after thousands of petitions and Senate testimony the motor voter bill passed Congress. But then president H.W. Bush vetoed it in July right in the middle of Bush's reelection campaign. Bill Clinton took up motor voter as a talking point bashing Bush over his veto. Motor voter passes the house it passes the Senate and then Bill Clinton signs it into law as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
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