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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Election Fraud Prevention Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires each state, in order to receive certain election assistance funds, to prohibit the knowing collection and transmission of a ballot in a federal election that was mailed to another person (commonly referred to as ballot harvesting), with exceptions. </p>]]></text>
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