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Said that he had unlawfully canceled more than 33,000 registrations, and they forced him to restore those registrations. in response, the republicans passed a law in the 2017 legislative session to allow him to do it again. so the challenge is twofold. one is that we know this is a flawed system that has a disproportionate affect on people of color. but it also has the ability to erode trust in our system. i know secretary kemp is well aware of this, and its part of a pattern of behavior where h...

Vote if they show up with a voter id. >> with the right accepted id, they sure can. one of the things we are super concerned about is the giant confusion. you might have poll workers not understand the rules and send them away. people who have heard the buzz think they arent on the rolls and some people that just dont even know because they havent been engaged yet, they dont even know to show up. this is a bad policy. but if you were one of these 53,000 people you should show up. you should brin...

People arent turned out. then they have the problem of all these voter fraud allegations. there was a fracas a few years ago where there was this giant investigation into the third party registration groups. it turned out to be nothing. then it became this very embarrassing cycle where the secretary of state got sued over it and, you know, just a lot of distaste and disgust. we all were following what happened with the polling place closures. >> a bunch of counties that disproportionately africa...

Problems colliding and compounding each other. one is the recent history in georgia of anti-voter activity. we have the strict photo i.d. law. we have the technical law rejecting registration applications if certain information doesnt match perfectly and increase amount of punches. that alongside a dearth of resources being allocated to run our elections. we have too many americans who dont have appropriate access to polling locations or enough voting machines or enough poll workers. and both of...

Months but this is a huge spanning process that has been going on for some years. you have to get different measures to reunite the system. rob: im thinking of the poll worker who has implement these. a sweet little old italian lady going to the polls making sure everything works. in the computer age, she has no idea what shes doing. poll workers in all 50 states are retirees like my grandmother. do they have the wherewithal to handle this? >> they have to understand not necessarily how the syst...

Because voters were voting twice, because they were turning from one page to the other. it was confusing and not what people intended originally. >> the irony, for the democrats, they had so many strong candidates who were inspired to come out. >> people like rohrabacher, not just trump. >> that hurts them because they have so many strong candidates that are splitting the vote. you talk about that error. lets talk about the los angeles voter roster error. i know youve been reporting on this and ...

Thought was her polling place. her name wasnt there. she talked to the poll workers, decided to go to another polling place, seeing if her name was there. it wasnt there, either. in that scenario, youre supposed to be handle a provisional ballot. but in a lot of cases, they were getting reports that people were confused, poll workers were confused what was happening because of a prisoning era. you had antonio villaraigosa calling on officials to leave the polls opened later. and this maye a big ...

Or exhausted and theyre just staying home? >> i think theres an exhaustion to it. but theres also an interest that i havent felt outside of iowa leading up to the primaries in those states. were just outside of a polling place here in montgomery. the poll workers inside, they come out and work the primaries, general elections. theres a giddiness. that these are numbers they see just at this polling place where they are comparing it to presidential type numbers. the one data point we can work off...

What if your town had an election and no one showed up. in case you missed it mcintyre, ohio had a zero percent turn out on their special election on tuesday. not a mistake. zero. it has a population of 110. theres 70 registered voters had two ballot issues to decide. county auditor had to issue a document with a blank tally. no one showed up to vote. yes, that means not even the current member or council members in question made their way to the polls. we know this for a fact because we called ...

Attacks could set off a broader conflict between the two countries. im joined by the reporter who broke this story, also clint watts former fbi special agent. mike, thank you for joining us. give us a sense of what you were able to report today in common sense language. >> sure. i think the important point to note is the obama administration and the national security establishment, when this stuff was going on, didnt think that the russians were trying to tinker with the actual vote tallies on e...