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Mike Rounds: “Most of what was in this bill was put together way back in…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Washington Post Live Interview with Senator Mike Rounds on Meatpacking, Cybersecurity, and Voting Rights

Published | Video Starts at 18:53

But this bill came around long before the pandemic and long before this last election. Most of what was in this bill was put together way back in 2019. So for most of us we've looked at it, we simply disagree that the federal government should be that directly involved in monitoring and directing the states as to how they do their electoral processes. (18:53–18:58)

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Asserts that the contents of the voting rights bill were mostly assembled in 2019.

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