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Something else at play. joining me political reporter for the "atlanta journal-constitution" greg blustein and deputy director of the democracy program at the brennan center for justice, myrna perez. welcome. first, i do want to start in talking about what exactly is going on down there and what exactly, why its happening right now. greg, in your reporting why is this it coming up less than three months before the election? >> yeah. this is a predominantly african-american county in southwest ge...

Data. hes a democrat who was on the commission himself. also with us is myrna perez, deputy director of the democracy program at the brennan center for justice. thanks to both of you. mr. secretary, im going to start with you because you cited state law saying it bars you from giving this information to the commission. if that law wasnt on the books, would you have problems providing this information to the commission? >> well, the information that would be available to the commission would be t...

All -- >> lets talk about donald trump. the director of the democracy program at n y u said the trump administration could change the voting landscape in a few ways. voter rolls are trying to push legislation through congress. are you also concerned here about what a trump administration might mean for voting rights? >> deeply. as soon as the federal courts rule that north carolina, for instance, had engaged in the worse voter suppression since the voting rights act and surgical racism, trump ca...

Like extending unemployment insurance, raising minimum wage, which he has done in part by way of executive order, but at the same time urging congress both democrats and republicans to step up to a shared responsibility to address those issues that are of real concern to the american people. >> but the meetings agenda also highlighted that the issues of that bygone era are still here today. joining me, deputy director for democracy program, and staff writer for the daily beast. and contributing ...

I want to bring in denita judge, an attorney who worked on voting rights in communities around the country with the advancement project, wendy wiser, director of democracy program at the brendan center for justice, christina balantoni, soon to be the editor in chief for roll call. congratulations on that. shell be starting next month. thank you, all, for joining us this morning. were looking at the year in voter i.d., the year in voting rights, maybe to put this in perspective, maybe put some nu...

To explain a simmer record across the county in a battleground state that could decide the election, were a little less tolerant. mailers were sent out to more than 2,300 voters in three pre tingts in ohios ottawa county that got not one, but two critical pieces of information wrong. one was the same error in arizona, telling voters election day was november 8th instead of november 6. additionally voters were also directed to the wrong polling place at a local high school. at the table, ben cohe...

He will be a speaker at the true the vote ohio summit. the guy running the elections, in the state of ohio, in an election year. that guy, for reals. this true the vote thing has gone big time. joining us now is wendi wiser. director of the democracy program at the brennan center for justice at nyu school of law. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i know youre not an expert on the history of true the vote, but in terms of the things they have done, did i get anything that y...

Joining us now is senior counsel with the democracy program at the brennan center for justice. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> it -- i guess ill ask this bluntly. is it legal to make it this hard to register people to vote? >> well, i think if this bill passes the legislature and the governor signs it into law, were going to find out because it will be challenged in court. i will say this, when the florida legislature first tried to pass the law in 2005, the brennan ce...

From mr. trump, including money for incidental expenses that he had incurred on mr. trumps behalf. so more questions raised by the difference in those numbers? >> right. thats the problem with this form of disclosure document. it really raises more questions than it answers. does this -- with giulianis reference, does it include the stormy daniels payment, payments for other expenses? >> its hard to say based on this limited snapshot that we are getting. >> i went to bring in daniel wiener senio...

Who arent already registered. how are they going to do that in florida? joining us now is senior counsel with the democracy program at the brennan center for justice. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> it -- i guess ill ask this bluntly. is it legal to makit this hard to register people to vote? >> well, i think if this bill passes the legislature and the governor signs it into law, were going to find out because it will be challenged in court. i will say this, when the f...