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We can expect a precipitous drop in mail voting in 2022, and that's good.

They released hundreds of thousands of votes here. and you can see what they just released. karen taylor robeson leads carry lake. 50 to 40%. with this giant batch of votes that just came in from maricopa county. what are these votes? here is how it works and maricopa county. there is extensive mail voting, early voting, in arizona. every ballot that was received by yesterdays but maricopa said it would release within minutes of poll closing. so i believe we are getting all the votes that were c...

Eric greitens. and in washington state, the votes is still too early to call for two publicans running for election who both voted to impeach donald trump. congresswoman jamie herrera butlers leading right now against trump endorsed candidate joe cant. and congressman -- dan newhouse is leading a tremendous candidate, lauren colp. steve kornacki with us all night, lets go over to the big board and see whats going on right now. i see youve chosen to talk about arizona first. tell us what you are ...

Vote, this is what happens in arizona, was more than an hour ago that we had no vote, now we got about 60% of the vote and. karrin taylor robson actually with a lead here of eight and a half points over kari lake. the way that this in arizonas, they got extensive early voting, mail voting, and basically what these counties do is they released right away in this first hour, all the votes that were received by about yesterday. thats basically what you are looking at here to start. so what was expe...

Them the question, do they want to do away with extensive mail voting in pennsylvania, youre actually finding a partisan divide on the question. the republican position tends to be, no, we shouldnt have the kind of mail-in voting were doing. the democratic position is yes. that seems to be the issue there. whether there should be this expansive and extensive mail voting, not the processing questions that emerge from 2020. thats where the debate has fallen in pennsylvania. >> steve kornacki on th...

Condition, wont be at any events tonight. but hes leading in a lot of votes, especially on the democratic side already cast. they allow mail voting in pennsylvania. democrats much more likely than republicans to use it. votes of votes already cast in this race. the other thing that looms over this is the governors race, the republican primary for governor, doug mastriano who has taken the lead in this thing in the average of polls. mastriano organized buses to take folks to the capitol on januar...

According to the brennan center, continue the trend of restricting access to mail voting. recurring restrictions include shortening the window for applying for a mail-in ballot, shortening the deadline, and restricting voters ability to receive assistance with returning a mail ballot. some of that increased access was in response to the pandemic, and i wonder what you make of the fact that were still very much living in the time of the pandemic. >> yeah, nicole, and you know, one other advantage...

Doing anything to promote by mail voting, at the penalty of a state jail felony. if i assist a voter by saying to them, just put both numbers on there, i am in danger of a state jail felony and so are my colleagues around the state. >> the application is clear, it asks for the drivers license or state i.d. number and if you dont have that, the last four digits of your social. if someones application for a mail-in ballot is rejected, what can you do to help them out? or do they have to proactivel...

That number is for you to put on your new application and that number must match whats on the voter registration roll and if it doesnt match, its an automatic rejection. now, heres the thing. the common sense thing is to tell voters, well, write both numbers on your application, your social security number, and its just the last four digits, or your drivers license number. except the new state law prohibits election officials doing anything to promote by mail voting, at the penalty of a state ja...

That we stopped here. but lets teach the provisions of this bill one of the time. and make it even harder for them to vote against some of these things that people on both sides of the political aisle and support. >> senator booker makes a good point here. what are these common sense provisions? allow me to break it down starting with the freedom to vote act. because you should know what is actually being blocked by these republicans and moderates. the bill would make election day a federal holi...