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Democratic party has gone to federal court to sue governor rick scott for refusing to issue an executive order extending early voting hours beyond saturday. the cutoff is sunday, obviously with the law that cut early vote egg from 14 to 8 days. the lines are wrapped around the block and theyre demanding more time for voters to vote and particularly long lines in the democratic part of the state, in the south. in ohio, democrats have gone to court because the secretary of state, john houston, cha...

On our electoral process unless youre going to cast a vote or a poll worker you have to state a hundred feet, some states its 500 feet away from the polling locations unless youre approved to be there. these individuals do not have authority to go into our polling locations to observe and the states attorney generals greg abbott from texas and as iowas secretary of state and georgias state ever are goin are going to make sure we dont have international interference. they are coupe link with naac...

All party, civil rights groups you and i have been affiliated with. theres nothing wrong with it. why would someone want to purposely deceive their connection or affiliation with poll watching unless theres something theyre going to do -- were dealing with here that does not meet the eye? >> they might get one of those samuel l. jackson attitudes, you know, get out of my face mentality. first of all, thats understand what this is -- who theyre directing this at. they will -- it will slow down, f...

Advance of elections they have all the provisional ballots they need, the voting machines are working and up to date. the poll workers are adequately trained, that we have enough people to provide language assistance. running an election is an incredibly important task, and we need to make sure that it is something that we invest the resources in to do so we can be comfortable with the outcome. >> i had a colleague who goes to church with my mom send me an e-mail. she had gone to early vote in j...

Poll worker tells me to go over there and i cast my ballot over there, what were saying is were going to count those votes. >> ohio was so determined to prevent african-americans from voting because african-americans gave the president the margin of victory in that state in 2008 that they actually sent a directive to the poll workers telling people they could not tell them where to vote. they directed them not to give their direction so their vote wouldnt be counted. >> barbara, there was a gag ...

Weve got problems and we cant vote or we work. i think whats really critical is that this case will, in fact, go to the supreme court now and -- >> are they going to hear this? >> i think kagan will -- its going to come to kagan, and its very likely shell refer it to the full court. so well see what happens. also there was another decision that was issued by the sixth circuit this week where they also threw out ohios law saying you have to be in the correct precinct for your vote to be counted. ...

Election this november if dwrour a legal voter even if you dont have that i.d. so hundreds of thousands of old people and poor people and students and people who just live in philly and take public transportation and dont have a drivers license, hundreds of thousands, maybe more than a million legal voters who were going to be blocked from voting from this new republican law are now going to be allowed to vote. but conveniently for the people trying to stop them from voting, this judge left a co...

Going to be blocked from voting from this new republican law are now going to be allowed to vote. but conveniently for the people trying to stop them from voting, this judge left a couple things still intact. first, the judge made clear that poll workers can still ask people if they have i.d. any way. even though fst not legally required for you to have an i.d. to vote, he says the poll worker can still ask you. so if you dont have an i.d., the poll worker asks you, they are supposed to let you ...

>> i was listening to a show one flight where they talked about these onerous rules, thighs own nous photo rules in ohio on photo i.d. well, the photo i.d. law in ohio is not onerous. smart, i suspect the jeep assembly will take up a more strict version after what we have been through in this election process. >> he suspects republicans will try to pass voter i.d. laws? well, i isnt it will target democratic voters, especially after hearing about how they are going to make voter i.d. laws even m...

Likely to live in poverty. are all of these states basically dealing with the same questions when it gets to the courts? are they all strung with the same needle and thread? >> the opponents of these laws say they are voter suppression, that they are making it harder for minorities, elderly, students, those demographics, those groups to vote. supporters say its about protecting the vote. and they say that in an age where you have to show an i.d. at the airport or to get into office building, its...