Billy Long: Joplin voters won't be disenfranchised

Billy Long is not going along with the talking points that his fellow Republicans Peter Kinder, Ed Martin, and Dana Loesch, and others have been sounding about 10,000 Joplin/Jasper County voters being disenfranchised Tuesday. The following passage comes from The Daily Caller:

“They shouldn’t [have voting problems],” Long said during a phone interview Saturday. “Just like everything with the tornado from last year, everyone is doing the best they can.”
“These are very extenuating circumstances and every time you lose 8,000 residences, when things like this happen where 8,000 homes are no longer there — in this case, county officials are very confident that everybody who wants to vote will be able to vote. And we’re going to double-check Monday to see if there’s anything else that we need to do to make sure that that occurs.”
“We just want to make sure that everybody get to vote who wants to vote,” Long added. ”And that’s the most important thing. We’re getting the word out through the media — radio and TV — that they are going to be able to vote.”