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The last couple of years pieces of legislation have been introduced in state legislatures to restrict the right to vote. we should have automatic registration. there is no evidence in all the studies done of widespread voter fraud, of that being a central problem in the american electoral process. its just not true. >> in georgia, 53,000 voter applications are on hold. >> and 70% of those are african-americans. surprise surprise. >> are these allegations of voter suppression to disadvantage demo...

2017 after the settlement and reintroduced the exact match protocol into the law. they extended the time period for fixing this phantom problem to 26 months, but they didnt fix the first order which is an exact match policy that catches voters because of misplaced hivens or letters or transposed dimits. it doesnt make sense to begin with. >> the people can vote and you need proof of residency. is that what it is to cast your ballot? >> heres what you need to do. as long as they show up at the po...

Vote. >> you have been down this road before. the law center in 2016 was involved in a lawsuit again with kemp at the helm. how is this different? >> thats right. secretary kemp began this exact match policy in 2013. we sued in 2016. to ensure that all the voters who had been canceled or put on hold were put back on the roles and allowed to vote in the 2016 elections. that was successful and ended in a settlement. secretary kemps policy was more draconian than the in place and said if you didnt ...

Used to be just a policy. it was a secretary of state offices that nobody even knew what was happening. the only reason anybody found out is because the new georgia project that has gone around registering folks to vote pulling in unlikely and new voters found 50,000 people they registered to vote one year were not on the voter rolls and thats when they found out the secretary of states office had this policy of this exact match system. so they went into -- they have sued the secretary of states...

Match policy. and the bill that were now sitting here talking about today that has become law. this has been a calculated effort on the part of brian kemp. this is one example of what republicans are doing across the country suppress and really make imped thes to the ballot box. >> steven, do you disagree? >> look, im totally against voter suppression efforts and so i think we should make it as easy as possible in this country for people to register to vote. its our most basic right as a citizen...