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They are focussed on the voting bills they say are restricting voting rights in texas. and this takes us back to where they were. this is a special session theyre in right now, the texas governor has called. specifically to address voting bills and some other things. so these house democrats or texas democrats are going to effectively try to walk out. its something they did earlier this summer in an attempt to stop further progress on these bills which they see as restricting voting rights in te...

These efforts to weaken our democracy. >> joining us now peter binert cnn political commentator. look, peter, we know how this will turn out today, this will not pass the u.s. senate. it may get 50 votes, ma i achieve 100% democratic unity which is not nothing but it wont pass. what former president barack obama was talking about there is this somehow fits the pattern of the u.s. as a back-sliding democracy. how does it fit that model? >> its important to remember that the united states is in ma...

The state had ranked second in the country in voter participation in the previous two presidential elections in 2008 and 2012. but in 2016, wisconsin saw its lowest voter turnout in nearly two decades. and new piece of mother jones, the reporter offers a theory as to why. this was the first big election under a new wisconsin law that made voting harder. they have a new voter i.d. law in wisconsin. after the election, the university of wisconsin surveyed voters and some of the democratic strongho...

The state had ranked second in the country in voter participation in the previous two presidential elections, in 2008 and 2012, but in 2016 wisconsin saw its lowest voter turnout in nearly two decades. in a new piece from "mother jones", one theory as to why, "this was the first election under a new wisconsin law that made voting harder. they have a new voter i.d. law in wisconsin. so they found over 11% of registered voters who didnt vote in 2016 were, quote, deterred in some way by the voter i...

Now instead of being able to walk to the clerks office and vote early up to the election, now unless you are uniformed military or voting overseas, now you have to get in line with everybody else. early voting stops three days earlier than it used to, and once youre in line, just pray they have enough machines. pray you dont spend your entire day waiting to exercise your right as a citizen. told by congress that ohio needs to make voting easier. under republican government, the state moved overt...