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John Thune: “What we want to get rid of are the ballot harvesting, the…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Thune Joins Martha MacCallum on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 03:57

And so we want to ensure that whatever we do here enables them to continue, for legitimate reasons, to have mail in ballots. What we want to get rid of are the ballot harvesting, the drop boxes, the unsolicited mailings, things like that that I think can be used and can be, are potentially rife with fraud. Those are the types of things that need to be eliminated. But we also want to ensure that states who do use them in particular, if you've got like somebody … (03:57–04:11)

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Asserts that ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and unsolicited mailings are potentially rife with fraud.

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