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Happens in 2018. but we are seeing it happen right now. and i thought your interview with dallas woodhouse was actually quite extraordinary. in a lot of ways. you did a really good job of pinning down the great irony. but also, lets remember you said this, they had notice that there was -- that there was something wrong that happened in the republican primary. they chose to ignore it and focus on the well funded democratic opponent and now we are today. again, for me this begs the whole need for...

Of places like bladen county might be a place that has preclearance. it seems like the place that should have it. extra scrutiny. there were pockets, large pockets, huge pockets where there was some stuff going on that was really not kosher and the federal government came in to specifically look at it. >> thats absolutely right, chris. 40 counties in north carolina were subject to the pre-clearance provision of the voting rights act. but essentially the state had to approve voting changes for an...

>> in your view should georgia go back under preclearance under the voting rights act? >> i believe that is one of the remedies we should seek, and i think sharylin is absolutely right. the challenge that we have in georgia is this is not about just one election. we have a republican who lost his primary because they gave out the wrong ballot. he had to pull out a plat map and individually proof that there were more than 1,000 voters left out of his district. that shouldnt have to happen. so thi...

The these issues and the need for us to keep doing this work. heres the deal. if, in fact, this lawsuit, and i havent seen the contours of it. it was a lawsuit brought under the voting rights act and its determined and found that georgia engaged in intentional discrimination in the various schemes that we saw in the year leading up to this election, it is possible for the parties to ask for georgia to be bailed in, and the bail in provision remains untouched by the supreme courts decision in the...

Have enough of them. theres been systemic disinvestment and theres a pending case saying the machines themselves are flawed. we want to solve all of these problems and were going to start using the judicial system. were going to use the system and were going to fight every vote. >> stay there. im going to bring you this. if, lets say, the lawsuit being filed by fair fight georgia that stacey abrams is leading, if what came out of that lawsuit were proof that there was systematic disenfranchiseme...

Class folk veterans, and people across the country and focus on lower health care costs, increasing pay for everyday americans through a real infrastructure plan, and cleaning up corruption in washington, d.c., and making sure that democracy works for everyday americans, including by ending the era of voter suppression. >> now, when you go to voter suppression, it was to both parties, but i did ask you specifically about the democrats. when you go to voter suppression, section 5 which protected ...

>> these are southern states. theres a reason he had preclearance. of course some people show up. i ran for office. it exists in our country. i think it is getting better. things are changing. it exists. s the dichotomy of america. >> bernie sanders should recognize if you come up with an extreme agenda, it doesnt matter your color. people are going to reject you. laura: they had marijuana stuff and -- >> but they lost in texas for the same reason. you cant be an extremist and win. thats the rea...

The danger here is that it takes times to litigate these cases, right, and if we cant get relief in the courts before the election, its too late. theres no way to redo the election and get peoples voting rights back before november. >> the remedy there is, no one gets to say get the other person elected. >> but theres a reason that georgia was once covered by section 5 of the voting rights act that we know the supreme court basically eviscerated in 2013 in the shelby county versus holder decisio...

Pre-clearance? >> thats right. if youre doing routine voterless maintenance, thats one thing. but if youre changing the rules that who gets to stay and who doesnt, thats a change. if you are engaged in the cancellation of registrations based on a new rule youve put into place you would need to seek pre-clearance. >> there are still opportunities to get emergency relief. lawyers from the aclu and the legal director of the aclu of georgia, sean young, was in court today, arguing that what georgia ...

It? >> it really dampens that type of enthusiasm. you can tie these vote enclosures to that 2013 supreme court decision, which stopped the preclearance that some of these states needed to change their voting laws. weve seen it in places like georgia since then. secretary of states like brian kemp have been able to implement stricter voting procedures that have affected these chuommuniti. the senior citizens, thats the feeling in the state, things are so polarized, these seniors that are going to...