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Act. all of these scenarios that weve been dealing with, we deal with them and have to deal with them the way we do because at least half the participants dont act or react. so, you know, when you have four pieces of legislation that are put up to deal with ballot security, safeguarding our elections and the republican majority leader blocks those four, okay. thats fine. then what are your plans? if you dont like the four that weve put up, then give us your plan. give us something. dont just go ...

>> what about the flipside for those who look at congress and say in the house, look, youre passing bills you know are not going to go anywhere in the senate. thats an argument that could be made. whats the defense there? >> i mean, i actually dont buy that. for example, on prescription drugs republicans and democrats said they wanted to do something about prescription drugs. we could put infrastructure -- weve had infrastructure any number of weeks. you could get agreement if the president of t...

Voters are saying to me, why cant they just get their work done? we have to show up at work every day. thats how we earn a paycheck. and the congress should have to do the same thing. >> on a scale of one to ten, susan, how frustrated do you think americans are with ail of this infighting and failure to get anything done, generally speaking? >> 38. >> i had a republican and democrat, both each independently said 11. everybody seems to be in sync with that. >> i was just going to add, i disagree ...

Wherever it may lead. it may be statewide. it may be appropriate, chris, to reform the absentee ballot by mail mechanism that exists. its always -- we face obstacles any time we do something to increase ballot security from various sources, but i think that may be something we have to pursue. but we have to know what the facts are, not just in one particular snapshot or from a biased or partisan point of view, but lets see what the full picture is. >> you cant let this man become the congressman...

It may be important to inform the absentee ballot mechanism by mail as it is. we face obstacles any time we do something to increase ballot security from various sources, but i think that may be something we have to pursue. we have to know what the facts are, not just in one particular snapshot or from a biassed or partisan point of view, lets see what the full picture is. >> you cant let this man become your congressman until you figure out whether he cheated in the race, right? >> well, and i ...

Discourage them from going to the polls. farr denies knowledge of the postcards, saying he attended a meeting about ballot security. farr also worked on defending a 2013 voter i.d. law, which included a controversial provision requiring residents to show i.d. before they could cast a ballot. it also eliminated same-day voter registration and voting on sundays, a day where black voters show up to polls in significantly greater numbers than white ones. in its ruling, one of the federal appeals jud...

The lead lawyer for former senator jesse helms election campaign. in that campaign, and the department of justice filed a complaint against the helms campaign and the north carolina republican party for sending over 100,000 postcards largely targeting black voters. is the doj said the intent of the postcards was to suggest black voters were not eligible and to discourage them from going to the polls. farr denies knowledge of the postcards saying he attended a meeting about ballot security. he wo...

Are? >> the answer is no. in palm beach county they have not started their recount, and the other ballots, the process started yesterday after many delays, and discussions over ballot security. they expect sometime this morning at 8:00 or 9:00 to begin the recount, that could take 80 or more hours, they will beat the thursday deadline for a recount. what shocked us yesterday, addressed us in the room and the media and defended errors she made that are in the lawsuit. here is what snipes had to s...

Tomorrow. >> theres something very suspicious that 67 counties in florida whenever theres a problem it comes down to democratic strongholds of broward and palm beach county. the governor to bring a lawsuit to get his people in there to conduct oversight. we had to do the same in the florida recount in 2000. there were ballots found in trunks of cars and hallways and the ballot security was nonexistent so the integrity is in question. >> glad you brought up integrity because the florida departmen...

By the way, there was a report today about how the u.s. election system, we basically, are not prepared for the current attacks that are likely coming from the russians today. he doesnt ever mention that threat. everybody else does. does that not make him look guilty? >> well, not guilty, at least clueless. i think that the lack of sincerity on this subject of voter integrity with respect to what russians -- we know what the russians did in 2016. were going into what will be a pivotal election t...