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"Now you can vote. You've got to vote. You've got to vote," she says [to her newly citizen-ed father].

Garubanda is from Uganda and she's on track to become a citizen. And she's already looking forward to registering to vote.

"When I become a citizen, that's the first thing I'm going to do," she says.

This week, 845 of the more than 1,124 people in Minnesota who became citizens turned in their voter registration cards.


And you wonder why Minnesota is consistently the highest turnout rate in the country on election day?

Maybe if all of those jackasses who despise immigrants would just get off their ass and vote, they might get their way because at this rate, the immigrants will out number them, perhaps not in percent of the population, but definitely percent at the polls. I'm at an ethical quandary between "keep your stupid ideas to yourself" and "if only more people voted, our democracy would last longer".