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Talking about the-mile-per-hour system of election administration and i want to give a pretty amazing statistic. voter turnout. we lose sight on election day theres about 40 or 50 million people who arent even registered who are eligible when voting happens. the u.s. ranked next to last among g8 nations. we come in 120th out of 169 and next to the last of the g8s. one interesting and important thing i would note is voter turnout does not mean you have a great functioning democracy as demonstrate...

Family members. you want to get into a debate about welfare, you can do it. if you want to get into a debate about taxes, you can do it. >> debate about drug legalization, you can do it. >> you can really, really do it. i oppose those people as a liberal. i hope that they never get any degree of power in the political system but they need to be recommend. when you talk about whats happening in terms of the racialization of the republican party, they deserve to be represented. this deserves to be...

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>> before you get to that, convince me thats the case. when you say -- i am convinced about when republicans come in, lets get rid of early voting, lets have voter i.d., im convinced thats about suppressing the constituency, black and latino youth, but when you talk about we have a crappy system thats got a lot of choke points in it, convince me thats about -- >> our system isnt one system. the system is first all 50 states and then its every county. >> right. >> and then the person in charge of...

You know what i mean, its not doing you any favors, talk radio, drudge, a lot of the stuff on fox. thats the -- your people see that. >> republicans dont serve that. where do these people go? if republicans change, i mean, theres a large portion of this country, i hate to say that, that has been said -- >> let me step up for those people just to litigate this sort of supremacy identity policy distinction. its a profound one. you start saying white racists, people are like, youre calling me a ray...

Franchise is for expanding the franchise. >> right. >> whether its lowering the voting age, whether its expanding it to blacks and women, thats the system. as long as voting, which is a democratic right, is left to politics which is an enterprise, then were in trouble. >> right. >> on election day the only people who are interested in turnout are the people running campaigns. >> right. >> as long as the governmental louse the political process to control the constitutional right then we have an ...

Machines. >> thats right. the key thing here is that this is what every other major western democracy does. >> right. >> we should worry as a country when we are a punch line for russia. when russia looks at our democracy and says, wow, thats inefficient, wow, that has a lot of flaws. were supposed to be the best. we were the best in 1776. weve got to update. >> part of that updating means now we all -- all have computerized databases statewide. >> right. that was part of the help america vote m...

Our elections. its the voter empowerment act. it does other things like restore voting rights to perngss with criminal convictions. >> hold that thought. i want to talk about that, voting in different ways, voting by mail, moving into saturday, how we can get it all so people are maximally participating in the system after this.

Boondoggle for them. bob knee went to prison. he was a lobbyist on behalf of the voting machine companies. >> it was a debacle. it looked like we were repairing the system when in fact we made it worse. >> you walked away. >> i walked away after the november 2004 election. i resigned because i could not participate in a process where neither the white house nor the congress were serious about the mission. what i concluded, chris, was that after the 2000 debacle the elected officials all conclude...

Midnight. although fernandez knew the projected results before she voted she wanted to vote for president obama. in the wake of the last florida voting debacle we had resolved to make things better. in 2002 congress passed the help america vote act which allocated almost $4 billion to states to help them make sweeping reforms to the voting process, yet reports from tuesday night dont inspire much confidence that things have been fixed. in fact, theres a good case to make that republicans have go...