President Obama on Wednesday talked about the importance of voting rights, dismissing the idea of large-scale voter fraud as "fake news."

"This whole notion of voting fraud — this is something that has constantly been disproved," Obama said during the final press conference of his presidency.

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"This is fake news — the notion that there are a whole bunch of people out there who are going out there and are not eligible to vote and want to vote."

Instead, Obama said, the country has the opposite problem: There are a lot of people in the country who are eligible to vote but don't cast their ballots.