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Discrepancy, even typos can result in voters not making it on the rolls, and the very person whos in charge of placing those applicants on the rolls is himself running for governor, has a distinct stake in the outcome of this election. between these missed voter registrations, failed absentee ballots, the purging of the rolls, secretary kemp has demonstrated hes not willing to do his job to ensure that all eligible voters are able to cast a ballot. thats why advancement project and our partner g...

Of voter suppression. the republican party has across the country moved ljts and policies that have made it harder for people to vote. so whether it was voter i.d. or closing of polling places, now were seeing major purging going on where hundreds of thousands of people are being taken off the roles. unfortunately when there are these close elections especially, what people seek to do, spell those in power, is to chang the rules to make it harder for some people to vote. when you have the secret...

And i think there, her opponent has also said that she can get people to turn out and register, shes got a great shot. this is always -- >> hes the guy in charge of registration. >> yes. >> hes the secretary of state. and hes setting these rules and purging voters and pointing, like, 50,000-some off the list and saying these are conditional now and the applications will be in doubt. >> they will be. always been about power. its always been about who gets to control the life of this country. and ...

State was your ability to vote if your i.d. doesnt have a street address on it. native americans in north dakota, at double the rate of everybody else, dont have street addresses on their i.d.s. if the republicans can turn off the native american vote, if they can end that, they can run the table. they dont have to worry about there being any u.s. senators from the democratic party. >> i am joined by donna brazile, back at the table, and ari berman, a senior reporter for mother jones, the author...

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The you said all these states have voter i.d. laws. why doesnt every state have one. >> why is it so unreasonable. >> were basically -- >> hold on. stop, please. what the whole crux of the story is not voter i.d. laws but purging people from the voter rolls. >> im totally against that. what im saying is liberals and in your report you said theres all these states that have voter i.d. laws. >> let me give you an example. >> if somebody vote whos doesnt have the right to vote, youre disenfranchisi...

Arkansas, alabama, nebraska, kansas, south carolina. probably the, other than mississippi, the largest black population by percentage in the country. tennessee, virginia. some in the northeast, rhode island, ohio, wisconsin. this is about states normally not viewed as in place, but clearly, alabama showed the country and the republican party differently. >> exactly. they sure did. and they had a strict voter i.d. law last year in alabama when doug jones was running for senate, and look what happ...

Just this issue, you never see separation from elected republicans and donald trump. and you have to remember that they used to call these dog whistles in the reagan days. these arent dog whistles, i disagree with what the last folks were saying in the sense he knows what hes doing here. these are blatant appeals to his base. the whole trump phenomenon has a racial element to it. it goes back to the suppression of the black vote and how hoe helped get himself elected in 2016. it has to do with w...

Dina powell is out of the running. keeping her job at goldman sachs. her nomination became more complicated by the escalating diplomatic crisis with saudi arabia because no one knows more about the relationship with jared kushner and crown prince salman than her. with weeks to the midterms, facebook purging accounts. facebook removed 800 pages for spreading political misinformation like fake accounts and driving people to ad farms. facebook tells cnn the purge was about behavior, not content. ...

>> all right. dexter, thank you very much. kathleen hall jamison, thank you. the new book "cyber war" is out now. natasha bertrand thank you. back in 2017 saudi arabias leadership was purging political rivals of the crown prince, president trump tweeted quote i have great confidence in the king and the crown prince of saudi arabia. they know exactly what they are doing. soech those they are harshly treated have been milking their country for years. well look at that through the lens of the purpo...