John Thune: “36 states already have [voter ID] in place.”

“… furthermore wasn't just blocked, it was actually the Democrats, Senator Merkley from Oregon offered a counter proposal that specifically would ban voter ID across this country and actually something that 36 states already have [voter ID] in place. So this is an issue on which there is broad agreement with the public. And obviously we're going to give the Democrats an opportunity to vote on that one particular …” (02:06–02:08)

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