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>> you are ohios chief election official in the capacity of secretary of state how likely is it that people might deliberately or accidentally voting absentee and i better go down there and vote. how do you protect that from happening? >> we have a excellent system and competent secretary of state and 88 boards of lecs and made up with democrats and republicans and they have a double lock security system and a lot of transparency. i dont think that is going to happen. what is going to potentiall...

This you know me, you know me. so, so when you -- when youre trying to sort through this argument about change, you know, part of what you have to ask yourself, who do you trust. >> and its interesting the candidates keep coming here to virginia because yesterday was the last day to vote absentee in person, so, really, these events are just designed to try to get out the vote on tuesday and we were at a polling place in fairfax county, virginia, the biggest county that barack obama won yesterday...

>> peter doocy is live in fairfax, virginia where national polls are showing the race between governor mitt romney and president obama is a statistical dead heat. peter? >> thats right, uma, here in fairfax county today, virginias largest locality. 1.1 million people live here and barack obama won this county by 109,000 votes in 2008. helping him win the state of virginia, weve seen a steady stream of people walking from the parking lot into the polls, today is the last day in virginia and you c...

Touch of where to go to find that truck is really going to effect. >> steve: they will park the military trucks right at the location you are supposed to go to. rear than going inside you somehow do it right there. >> gretchen: thank you, rick. touch base with you throughout the morning. >> steve: with just three days until election day, the state of virginia is one of the tightest races in the country. not only is the presidential race a virtual tie. the senate race will come down to the wire a...

I believe you do. that we only have one sacred obligation as americans. to equip those we send to war and care for them and their families when they comb home. >> so you saw mitt rom nil and vice president joe biden there putting a big focus on the military vote here in virginia. today, the saturday before the election, its the last day to vote absentee, in person. if you dont vote by today, you have to wait until tuesday to vote with everybody else. back to you. >> steve: peter doocy live in vi...

Silliness, so i believe theyre going to respond by casting their vote and on tuesday, for mitt romney, hes the hope for the future. >> governor, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your insight. >> thank you. >> well, thats 25 million people in 34 states and district of columbia will be voting early in the election, about a third of all votes in the election are expected to be cast before actual election day and we want to know, did you vote early and was it worth it or do you ...

Democrats and president obama would expect to do well are in northern virginia, in the kind of central virginia-richmond area and in portions of hampton roads along the eastern seaboard. as you point out northern virginia was hard hit by hurricane sandy. several of the voter registrars up there had to suspend office hours during the storm. as a result and at the request of governor bob mcdonald here in virginia some of those registrars are extending their hours in the coming todays to allow thos...

Got lots of -- i write about this in my column tomorrow in the "wall street journal." they say we are getting a lot of young voters. this will blow your mind, bill. i got the list of the people who voted absentee, and voted early in ohio, and ran it by the voter file so i could tell who is voting and what their ages are. there are more republic millennials, 18 to 29-year-olds who have voted early or requested absentee ballot in ohio than democrats by a margin of 12,000 and some odd to thousand a...

Bring it back into the house and then you have got that contamination on your body. we need to make sure people take those precautions as well. megyn: we saw this in the aftermath of katrina and now we are having it here in new york. doctor, thank you so much. five days until election day and there are voting concerns in ohio. we are hearing questions about provisional ballots. absentee votes that may not count and voter machine problems. new trouble for storm victims. no power, no heat, no fuel...

Viewer early votes or requested that many absentee than in 2008. they have fire or five days to go. on the other hand republicans have voted or requested 75,858 more absentee ballots than four years. that is a delta of 250,000 from democrats to republicans and remember obama won it by 262,000. if you need evidence of how energized the republican base is in ohio. >> steve: lookk at gretch, your home state of minnesota and new mexico, romney people are putting ads on those states which had been, t...