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Have the -- and when you sign, you get a five-year felony. millions of votes studied, theres no fraud anywhere. and, in fact, he said that bill was a common sense bill. and ive said, no, theres another definition of common and that means vulgar, its a vulgar attempt to manipulate the political process. its a straight up voter suppression, worse than alabama, worse than south carolina in same-day registration, rolls back sunday voting. disallows straight ticket voting and even disallows the count...

Electora electorate. further than that they went after the same day registration knowing that african-americans use same day registration and they went after straight ticket party ticket voting knowing that african-americans overwhelmingly use that. so this bill is draconian and regressive and crime against democracy and attempt by he and the other extremists to hold on by power by manipulation and cheating and violating our most fundamental invite, the invite to vote. >> 41% used same day regis...

To stop anything from going forward. the justice department has very few tools in its arsenal. people are saying they can use existing provisions of the voting rights act. those are important but those are nothing compared to what section 5 of the voting rights act did. >> on some level i mean there is obviously political calculation behind this decision, the kinds of voters who are targeted through this tend to be older, poorer, vote democratic, and in some cases younger. but either ends of the...

Far eclipses all of the restrictive voting laws that have come before it. the bill passed in north carolina on thursday night and is what my guest, ari berman, calls the countrys worst voter suppression law. the bill started off badly enough, a strict voter i.d. measure that could leave 318,000 north carolinians without the right to -- or without the capacity to vote. but then, it ballooned into a, yes, my friends, 57-page voter suppression super bill. as republicans tacked on dozens of amendmen...

You about whato expect in those does because it was on to the battleground i think and i brought up our senate map here. a lot straight ticket voting in pennsylvania. thats wso it doesnt surprise me there. another clue perhaps to whats going on in new hampshire, the a open was close. they were h a little bit there. so add that to your clues. ones. oee way, oenate race theres going to be lot of drop off vote meaning think of it as this suburbs, republicans going to vote for claire mccaskill. ill ...

Digits. heres the interesting thing about that poll to. its a poll in indiana, which almost never happens. its really weird, but nobody nationally never knows whats going on in indiana politics because they dont poll in indiana. in indiana, its illegal to make automated calls for telemarketing purposes and for public opinion surveys like polling. you cant use an auto dialing device unless the subscriber has consented to being contacted or a live operator gets on the line and gets consent that wa...

Device unless the subscriber has consented to being contacted or a live operator gets on the line and gets consent that way. since it make s it hard and expensive, theres little polling in indiana. but while were on the subject of weird details, check out this ballot in north carolina. its more than a dozen states where they have straight ticket voting. they say everybody with an r next to their name, thats who im voting for. i want all the republicans or all the democrats. but theres a bizarre ...

Polling in indiana. but while were on the subject of weird details, check out this ballot in north carolina. its more than a dozen states where they have straight ticket voting. they say everybody with an r next to their name, thats who im voting for. i want all the republicans or all the democrats. but theres a bizarre catch to straight ticket voting in north carolina. north carolina is the only state where voting for a straight ticket does not include the presidential race. so you have to vote...

All the democrats. but theres a bizarre catch to straight ticket voting in north carolina. north carolina is the only state where voting for a straight ticket does not include the presidential race. so you have to vote for the straight ticket and then in addition to that, you also have to cast another vote for president. if you just vote straight ticket democratic, you do not cast a boat voet for barack obama for president. you have to do that separately in addition. so its not really straight t...

In addition. so its not really straight ticket voting. its straight ticket plus the president voting. okay. i said weird details. heres something weirder. this is a democrat in the governors race. he leads in the polls by more than 30 points. but that may not be enough. the vermont state constitution requires a candidate for governor to get 50% plus one vote. so even though hes leading, he has four opponents. so if those four opponents get a combined 50% of the vote, the governor will not be ree...