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Floridas republican governor, ron desantis, submitted a new map for congressional districts. he proposed florida should cut in half the number of congressional districts that are majority black. okay. texass largest counties are starting to report on the real world impact of the voting restrictions that texas republicans passed this past year. as many as half the ballot requests they are getting from voters in the largest counties are now being rejected by the state because the new voting rights...

Are leading some counties to reject as many as 40% of mail in ballots requested because the new law required new forms with an area to provide your address, social security or id number. not everyone got the form. applications of the wrong form are not acceptable for mail in ballot requests so they got tossed and the law also conveniently makes it a felony for election officials to proactively send out the correct application forms to voters. see how that works? the identification used also has ...

Voters in the states largest counties are now being rejected by the states, because the new voting rights restrictions they just passed requires that those ballot requests be rejected. half the ballot requests being turned away. in wisconsin, where republican legislators have been moving aggressively to restrict all sorts of voting methods, a state court judge sided with them and ruled that wisconsin can, in fact, remove its drop boxes that people use to drop off their ballots for the election. ...

0 control but -- also federal standards, and to make sure that the system is not being abused. -- and now we are here, senator tim kaine of virginia. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> chris, its going to be an important im excited about it. >> we will keep our eyes on it. that is "all in" on this tuesday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us. floridas republican governor, ron desantis, submitted a n...

That it was too late for the voting rekwoirmentes left in march. few people vetted because of the deadline. 26% of thoed when submitted the ballot requests on to the deadline went on to cast builts on lksz day upon you were very clear of rebuffing donald trumps claims in voter fraud in georgia, but you do support restrictions that appeared to some to make it arter to vet. how did on you square that in? the previous law had this little deadline. ? i was never going to be a not chapper question. w...

New this morning, internal text messages with republican lawmakers in florida, undercutting the claims the states new, more restricting voting law was not politicly motivating. a senate proposal was defended to cancel all existing mail-in ballot requests, saying it would be devastating to republicans to keep them valid heading into 2022 election, when desantis and other state republican officials are up for re-election. that proposal did not ultimately make it into the final bill, but republican...

>> brian kemp has, i think, a pretty bad history when it comes to suppressing votes. when i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say hes not doing something new but hes using every old trick in the book. thats whats kind of unique about him. he doesnt just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio th...

When i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say hes not doing something new but hes using every old trick in the book. thats whats kind of unique about him. he doesnt just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio the other year, he has this exact match program, which stacey abrams challenged and the...

Vote data from other parts of the country. and i should say, despite news like that out of telephone, the early vote data that were getting is n all good news for hillary clintons campaign. for example new early voting data from ohio and it is good news for donald trump. we saw those ecstatic pictures of people flooding into the county clerk office. a lot of those people, if not all of them in these images are hillary clinton supporters. but the early data so far out of ohio is not good news for...

Installations there be voting assistance facilities and the inspector general has documentd that only about half of the bases complied with those laws. and we know that many in many places absentee he ballot requests are way down from deployed military and it is a national disgrace and im very disappointed in the pentagons failure to lead on this issue. >> shannon: we know that you constantly keep an eye on that issue. one you have been working on for years. we will check back with you on that i...