Bennie Thompson actually said...

I'm grateful to Congress for coming together to appropriate funds we States could use to run our elections in a difficult time.

No one should be disenfranchised because it is too hard to get to a polling place or because the line is too long.

I would rather you give us no funding at all if it means you're going to tell us how to run our elections.

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