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Mike Rounds: “This [voting rights] bill came around long before the…”

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 00:08

… of legislation that's in a lot of states right now that is basically look at either expanding or retracting or changing the guidelines under which people cast their votes. But This [voting rights] 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 … (00:08–18:54)

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Asserts that the voting rights bill was introduced before the pandemic and the last election.

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