Clip: Bernie Sanders responds to over 100k voters dropped in Brooklyn

Apr. 19, 2016 AT 8:54 p.m. EDT

As voters head to the polls in the New York primary, over 100,000 voters have been dropped from the rolls in Brooklyn, the largest drop in active registered Democrats in New York. Sen. Bernie Sanders called the drop "absurd" during a primary night speech in Pennsylvania.

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BERNIE SANDERS: I t is absurd in Brooklyn, New York, where I was born actually, tens of thousands of people have been purged from the voting rolls.

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