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Guys navigated some of the trick kwa -- tricky things. and photo i.d. also will be a big fight? >> i dont know if we punted anything. >> fair enough. >> i think we took on the charge given, and we tried to provide really data-based solutions that could affect the voting experience. >> can i welcome zachary -- >> i was going to say, you have a new title. youre a grandfather. >> the best title in the world. >> there it is. congratulations. >> better than co-chairman. >> a grandson, so the ginsburg...

It seems everybody should be able to show up and vote in 30 minutes to matter where they are. how realistic is that for the next election? >> our expectations believe these recommendations to have immediate effects. we would like to see them have some impact in 2014. more impact in 2016. there is no reason to believe this cant happen quickly. there are steps to be taken and having difficulties that significantly shorten lines and address other frustrations. the report addresses language minority...

Problems that affect the voting experience and they are identifiable and they are solvable. we heard that throughout the country wherever we went in public hearings, fact finding. so weve drawn up some recommendations that we believe will have broad bipartisan support just as our report is a unanimous bipartisan report and will enable voters currently facing the obstacles to be relieved of them. it includes lines and a variety other of the obstacles that the president asked to examine. >> one st...

From last months state of the union address that i thought probably would not come to pass because it involved republican participation, i thought thats never going to happen. turns out, its going to happen. so tonight im announcing a nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in america. and it definitely needs improvement. im asking two longtime experts in the field, who, bring the way, recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for governor romneys campaign, to lead...

Accomplish that this time. but after mitt romney lost, republicans in the states started in again with renewed vigor. they are not giving this thing up. the republican lawyer who will now co-chair the presidents bipartisan commission to, quote, improve the voting experience, ben ginsburg, he spent last year advising the romney campaign, including the romney campaign in its role in the state-by-state fights over how hard republicans in those states could make to it vote in this country. when the ...

The pennsylvania legislature said voter id laws would deliver the state of pennsylvania for mitt romney. it did not work well enough to accomplish that this time. but after mitt romney lost, republicans in the states started in again with renewed vigor. they are not giving this thing up. the republican lawyer who will now co-chair the presidents bipartisan commission to, quote, improve the voting experience, ben ginsberg, he spent last year advising the romney campaign, including the romney camp...

Not historically, not for regular folks. certainly not for 102 retired ladies. and after he hosted desiline victor at the state of the union last night and told her story about trying to vote and this problem in our country, president obama then moved on later on in the speech to propose a solution to this problem. >> we must all do our part to make sure our god-given rights are protected here at home. that includes one of the most fundamental rights of a democracy, the right to vote. when any a...

Vigor. they are not giving this thing up. the republican lawyer who will now co-chair the presidents bipartisan commission to, quote, improve the voting experience, ben ginsberg, he spent last year advising the romney campaign, including the romney campaign in its role in the state-by-state fights over how hard republicans in those states could make to it vote in this country. when the obama campaign sued over ohio republicans cutting early voting, it was mr. ginsberg and the romney campaign who...

Nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in america and it definitely needs improvement. im asking two long-time experts in the field who, by the way, recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for governor romneys campaign, to lead it it. we can fix in and we will. the american people demand it and so does our democracy. [applause]. of course, what ive said tonight matters little if we dont come together to protect our most precious resource, our children. it has be...

Improve the voting experience in america and it definitely needs improvement. im asking two long-time experts in the field who, by the way, recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for governor romneys campaign, to lead it it. we can fix in and we will. the american people demand it and so does our democracy. [applause]. of course, what ive said tonight matters little if we dont come together to protect our most precious resource, our children. it has been two months since newtow...