plagued with problems missing voter lists and ballots broken machines hours after polling stations were supposed to close many remain open. with long lines of people waiting for their turn to vote in other areas officials have already started counting reports say four people were killed in election violence at one polling station in the country s east some twenty one candidates are running for the presidency official results aren t expected for another two weeks. they waited for two years to cost their vote what difference will a few more hours in the pouring rain make. after eighteen years of the same man in charge voters in kinshasa waited eagerly for their chance to select a new president. they have a choice between three main candidates two from the opposition and a former interior minister favored by outgoing president joseph kabila. the election means to me means the future of cuny so i have voted for the candidates we
being removed at higher rates than white voters. really across the state there s a lot of voter apathy. people of all races have set out elections. it cues you up to be removed from voter lists if you continue to not participate. this is really, there are really clear political lines drawn and who favors this policy and who is against it. republicans have been supportive all the way up to the supreme court. democrats have been more likely to be against it. this is impacting people of all political stripes. it s an example of how politicized voter lists are and how the people who are writing the rules around voter list maintenance tend to have a stake in who votes in predicting how elections will turn out.
the new exact match law put on the books, and look, this is much more stringent than other stateses have to be sure. it is not uncommon for the secretary of state to be presiding over the election they are running, and we have seen the democratic secretaries of state in those roles, but there is also the question of whether the voter purges are following the law in terms of the cleanup of the voter lists that is mandated by law from election to election. and another piece of this is that under the new supreme court rulings in the voting rights act in places like texas, they no longer have to prove affirmatively they are not suppressing, because they not under the whole restriction and to be continued. thank you all so very much. coming up, them too, and five women bravely sharing their experiences of sexual assault in a new documentary and we will speak to one of them next on andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.
president, this is something that didn t come it. the president didn t seem interested in responding to what happened in 2016. it must be a disease that went around. barack obama when he was president was told about this as 2014. talk about an administration that did nothing, they were even debating whether to tell the campaigns and the incoming administration but so much more has come to light since then.. we know so much more about the degree that this was a problem. what has this administration done. why isn t it taking it nor seriously? can t you look at this lawsuit, look at the substance behind it and motivations for it. why hasn t more been done? i think a lot has been done. kris kobach is doing an analysis with each of the secretary of states throughout the state. i was an assistant secretary of state in california tasked with ensuring the integrity of the votes. and they are looking at what systems were hacked into in states. did they were they able to look at voter
as you know. the trump administration then dragged their feet and refused to fund that office for months and months and months. they have now technically funded it but the hiring freeze at the state department means that no one is at work there. so congress has taken some steps to push back on russian interference, it s been the administration that has regularly blocked the implementation of those pieces of legislation. remember on the electoral front, don t assume that the russians are going ton object facebook in 2018. they were trying to penetrate state-based voter lists in 2016. and if they re ever successful at that that s true pandemonium at the polls. senator i ll ask you a question that under any other circumstances would be absurd. but under these circumstances is warranted. is it possible that the republican chairman of the house intel committee, has been compromised by the russians? is it possible they have a russian agent running the house intel committee on the republica