What happened last week, as you all know, Senator Husted from Ohio offered a very straightforward voter ID amendment which was blocked on the floor by the Democrats and 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 in place. So this is an issue on which there is broad agreement with the public. (01:54–02:05)
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