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Mike Johnson: “Ballot harvesting is notorious for opening the door for…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Full interview Speaker Mike Johnson on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Published | Video Starts at 12:49

So if you have noncitizens participating against the law and you have no mechanism in some states to stop it, that is the root of so much of the concern. And of course, you know, in California they have ballot harvesting, right? Ballot harvesting is notorious for opening the door for fraud. In Wisconsin they're going to put. Mr. Speaker, you seem unmanned ballot boxes. In public parks again contradicting yourself. And the states are run by stating the fact by the state government, not the federal government. (12:49–12:54)

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Asserts that ballot harvesting is known to enable fraud.

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