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Voters of this state. >> that is important news, actually. and there are nationally implications every time theres a voting matter like this in the state of ohio. ohio state senator nina turner, thank you for helping us understand this. thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> i should mention that we reached out to secretary of state john husteds office today to see if he would talk to us about his decisions on ohio voting. his office told us the secretarys schedule w...

Theyve made it harder to get your provisional ballot counted. and they made it harder to get your absentee ballot. thats definitely been a huge problem, right? way too many voting machines, a terrible scurge of voting being easy. it must be stopped. ohio republicans voted last year to make it easier to kick people off the rolls. all of these voting rights changes in ohio last year, last week and now today, they have all been made on party line 100% republican votes. or theyve been decisions made...

Fitzgerald, and fewer people voting would help him. ohio republicans making these decisions to make voting harder, the tide of decisions since the last election, yeah, ohio republicans are helping themselves. theyre making decisions that will affect their own elections, their own ability to hold on to their jobs. this is ohio. and when they change the rules by which people vote in that state, it does not end up just affecting ohio. it aends up affecting all of us. we should be making it easier...

Decided they couldnt take it. significantly less than the number of people who went home rather than stay in lines was the margin of victory for george w. bush that year. after that voting disaster in 2004, ohio tried to get their act together a little bit. they didnt want that embarrassment again. between that presidential election in 04 and the next one in 08, one way ohio tried to fix its third world caliber system was by giving people more time to vote than on election day. the weekend befor...

Democratic candidates. republican candidates between the 2008 election and the last election, they got control, they got complete control of the state government in ohio. the legislature and the governorship, and with that complete republican control, they did everything they could to try to make voting harder in ohio for the last presidential election. and they specifically tried to get rid of early voting on the last weekend on election day. they would have gotten away with it too if it werent...

Voting or having the opportunity of take advantage of evening voting. all of this is being done by design, rachel. it is not an accident that the republicans in the state of ohio are trying to break the spirit and the will of the voters in the great state of ohio. it is a shame. this is a moral issue and everyone in this state should be outraged. as you pointed out, these roadblocks, voters should not have to jump over hurdles and roadblocks just to be able to vote. voting is designed to determi...

To vote, or the republican worries about whos allowed to vote and how you prove youre allowed to vote. early voting doesnt invoke any of those concerns at all. its about when you turn up. right? and people like having more options about when to vote than just election day. by 2012, by the next presidential election in ohio, fully a third of the people who voted in that election in 2012 voted early. people like it, its convenient to be able to vote early. but that almost didnt happen in 2012 beca...

Elections. and he said this while announcing cutting back on early voting. has there ever been, even the allegation that theres some connection between cheating and voting and voting at a time other than election day? >> no, rachel. they have no facts. the republicans certainly dont let the arithmetic get away of a good story. they are harming the foundation of our democracy. one thing we can say, although its been a hard way to go for a lot of groups in this country, we have been a nation of pr...

Number of people who went home rather than stay in lines was the margin of victory for george w. bush that year. after that voting disaster in 2004, ohio tried to get their act together a little bit. they didnt want that embarrassment again. between that presidential election in 04 and the next one in 08, one way ohio tried to fix its third world caliber system was by giving people more time to vote than on election day. the weekend before the election. and so 2008 rolled around and there were s...

For it, changed their minds almost as soon as they cast their vote. they regretted their votes, they wanted the governor to veto what they had just done. theres a split even among the people who were voting on this as time went by. the governor also faced pressure to veto this republican bill from the states two u.s. senators. neither is particularly known as a champion of gay rights or anything, both of those said that governor brewer should defy the republicans in the legislator and stop this ...