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Ballot, because the poll workers, the county workers are really bending over backwards to make sure everybody gets their say in this election. >> all right, drew griffin, appreciate the reporting. back with the panel. kayleigh, should somebody whos been inactive in the last two elections, should they be allowed to struck off the rolls? >> certainly if theyre a dead person whos on the rolls. theres 4 million dead voters on the current voting registration rolls. >> but just if someone hasnt voted?...

Voter intimidation. >> amber to you in denver. we wanted to talk to you because you have added active shooter training for your poll worker volunteers. take me inside that conversation. why did you decide to do that and what does that mean about concerns of unrest around election day? >> well, thanks, brooke, and thanks for having me. we did decide about a year ago to add an active shooter training into our election judge program so all of our election judges working in the field as well as the ...

Folks are angry and opposed to sunday voting. six days of voting and one week is enough, period, and then he went on to say, that keeping polls open for the full 17 days of early voting may be wasteful and unnescessary. >> republicans argue keeping polls on weekends and off hours out of regular weekday business hours puts an unfair burden on poll workers and they think its just not right to require people to work on sundays. democrats point to the fact that sundays, for example, every days when ...

Before the election. the other is about the dmv, voter rights act viss saying thousands of people who registered to vote through the dmv have not been processed and are not showing up on the rolls. the state replied and said they will -- a judge actually has said the state must do this the state will allow those who show up who said they registered through the dmv but have not shown up to have a provisional ballot. the judge says that ballot must be counted. these voting rights activists say tha...

Elections within different counties. different machines used. different people in charge and the people who are in charge in the polling places, the poll workers in many states average over 70 years old. and so they are people who are not necessarily up to date with the technology. most of the time this doesnt matter. because the elections are not so close that we have to look at how each ballot was counted. but as we all learned in 2000, once you look under the hood and see how our elections ar...

So this is an electronic voting machine. >> thats right. >> the kind of machine you use in philadelphia? >> in every precinct in philadelphia we use this exact same machine. it isnt connected to the internet, cant be hacked into. >> al smit is up wione of three election commissioners in philadelphia. what about a voter empersonating somebody theyre not? what would it take for the election to be rigged and affect the outcome in philadelphia? >> it would involve conspiracy of hundreds of people, s...

Of their way to assure that the election is sound. >> there is election monitoring and an election observation training when we go to the polls and we are, you know, voting. what might they be doing in the background that we dont know? because its something you probably are very familiar with in terms of how those monitors are making sure that these votes are done properly. >> sure. in fact, weve organized monitoring in the past. poll workers work to capture all the votes on the voting systems t...

Talking about the establishment, not the poll workers. >> i think what donald trump is talking about is frankly what appears to be the monolithic support of the national media for hillary clintons campaign. >> its pretty clear what he means. hes never talked about cheating at the polling place. >> i believe the rigging is the level of the national establishment. i dont think its at the level of stealing votes at the precinct level. >> actually, its not clear at all. the problem is that is exactl...

Irving joyner it a professor at the north carolina university of law. ari, ill start with you by quoting the post you put up at the nation on voter i.d. you say the most controversial vision of the new law doesnt go into effect until 2016 and thus wasnt discussed much in court. but the state is doing a test run in 2014 where poll workers will ask for photo i.d. but voters dont have to show it. because of the potential for confusion, the north carolina naacp asked judge schroeder to enjoin the te...

Groups either in or outside the state who came in. i did see one news report that we, of course, havent verified yet out of madison that suggested there may been a poll watcher who irritated some poll workers. that story didnt seem to point to any sort of broad issue. thats really something were going to have to keep an eye on as these results and information from these precincts and counties starts to trickle in. >> kasie hunt from the chris mcdaniel headquarters in mississippi. its going to be...