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Dollars. 60% of that is for organizations outside the state of wisconsin. they create science, junk science in universities and these think tanks that is the moral justification for these harsh restrictive conservative policies which take away corporate accountability, which privatize our schools. thats one of their massive endeavors is the privatization of private schools. theyve moved now into funding organizations about propaganda to say theres massive voter fraud and justify the activities i...

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...

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 ...

Senior correspondent eric shawn tells us what this mea means. >> when pennsylvaniaens show up to vote in november, poll workers will ask for a photo i.d. voters dont have to show one. it lets the voter i.d. law stand but wont be enforced. common law judge simpson worries not enough people got photoi.d.es. he worried about voting by provisionage ballot showing who they are in six days. proponents are thrilled. >> hallmark of our democracy is universal suffrage. were known around the globe. that i...

Photo i.d. joining me is philadelphia mayor michael nutter. what are your thoughts on todays rulings? i know the plaintiffs attorney called this a win. >> sure. its an 18-page decision, thomas. certainly written in the wonderful language of legalese. the bottom line is eligible vote others can vote on election day november 6th wooch. we are excited about that. the soft rollout period we experienced in the primary earlier this year, basically the judge is going to continue that. poll workers can ...

To these challenges now, because theyve been put forth to your office. what else would you and your office be doing if you were not devoting these resources and this time to poring over the tens of thousands of records? whats your usual work in a big, national, contested election season? >> well, i mean, obviously were getting ready for the election. and were still doing that. i mean, our county boards of elections, we have 100 counties in north carolina. absolutely are getting absentee ballots ...

Before and challenge these number of voters at one time. >> obviously you have to respond to these challenges now, because theyve been put forth to your office. what else would you and your office be doing if you were not devoting these resources and this time to poring over the tens of thousands of records? whats your usual work in a big, national, contested election season? >> well, i mean, obviously were getting ready for the election. and were still doing that. i mean, our county boards of e...

Theyve been put forth to your office. what else would you and your office be doing if you were not devoting these resources and this time to poring over the tens of thousands of records? whats your usual work in a big, national, contested election season? >> well, i mean, obviously were getting ready for the election. and were still doing that. i mean, our county boards of elections, we have 100 counties in north carolina. absolutely are getting absentee ballots out. people are already voting in...

And im quite confident the lemon slach clearwater is going to take that issue up. >> they need to streamline forms of i.d. streamline? we know what that mean he is. its code word for voter suppression. these are just the latest dirty tricks to fall out of ueusteds sleeves. he is attacking souls toll polls voting days, that typically get black workers the poll booth and punish poll workers for mistakes and even fired two elections officials who backed more voter access to the polls. he is laying ...