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>> this is not a dream. >> also tonight as easter approaches, life after death comes to the forefront is there any proof of an after life? we will examine that question. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. hi, im boiler. thanks for watching us tonight. and pardon the allergies voter suppression. the grievance industry believes requiring i.d.es to vote is a right wing plot to deny some americans their voting rights. called voter suppression. been heari...

Are. this is common sense. >> its not about ideology. we agree we need to combat voter fraud. >> no, we dont agree on that. >> some big federal -- going to get you. >> every state should require a voter i.d. the states not federal government. im for the photo i.d. and not have the feds running it? >> easier and much more efficient because when there is voter fraud in the presidential election, remember, we had florida, okay. you had all that crazy stuff down there. all right. its much easier to ...

One response came from wisconsin, pat said, send my secretary a state of plea to keep voting hours available to the public. i live in wisconsin where the republicans are trying to tighten the reigns on democracy. the republican governor of wisconsin, scott walker recently signed a law that eliminated early voting on weekends, thats the dynamic so many reported from south carolina and texas where the justice department is suing state officials over restrictive voting i.d. laws. the rest of the 15...

For working people? do you want to see livable wage? do you want to see people who get guns have background checks? they say, yes. republicans and democrats say these things. these folks dont want a fair vote so they just take peoples vote. but i want you to know, tamron, in minnesota, we organized people all across the state and defeated at the ballot box a photo i.d. measure so you could beat it in the courts, but you can beat it on the streets, too. >> and thats what youre calling people in y...

Happy election eve. good luck voting. you might need it. joining us now is congressman mark visi of texas, one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit contesting texass voter i.d. law. he was a part of the legislature when that passed in 2011. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> tomorrows going to be the first statewide test of the i.d. law in texas on election day. weve already seen one of the implications of early voting. one in four voters in texas need to file an affidavit ...

Able to vote. 699,877, eh, maybe not. happy election eve. good luck voting. you might need it. joining us now is congressman mark visi of texas, one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit contesting texass voter i.d. law. he was a part of the legislature when that passed in 2011. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> tomorrows going to be the first statewide test of the i.d. law in texas on election day. weve already seen one of the implications of early voting. one in four vote...

Happy election eve. good luck voting. you might need it. joining us now is congressman mark visi of texas, one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit contesting texass voter i.d. law. he was a part of the legislature when that passed in 2011. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> tomorrows going to be the first statewide test of the i.d. law in it xotexas on election d. weve already seen one of the implications of early voting. one in four voters in texas need to file an affidav...

Stand up when were talking about a new voting rights bill, when we see in states all over the country changing in voting from changing early voting, changing sunday voting, changing voting i.d. to now photo i.d., are we not hearing in many ways certain things that lead to the same results that was more blatant by jesse helms but is in many ways moving toward the same direction? >> you know, youre right, reverend sharpton. but no one is going to pull ted cruzs coattail. just as they did with tren...

Representatives there. you look at a state, for instance, like south carolina. it isnt only expanding voting i.d. laws. theyre making it difficult to vote. theyre discussing in south carolina a bill that would make it harder for disabled people to vote, that would essentially say if youre disabled, you have to get a note from your doctor to get an absentee ballot. there are all sorts of measures going on. i think were going to have a long, hot summer about the culture wars in many ways. thats wh...

What you voted for in 2006 included the formula. if you thought it was 50-year-old data and a bad formula, why vote for it? >> i didnt want to throw out the whole bill. at the time we decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is -- to get back to the point, its not 50-year-old data. were talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws, manifestly unjust, and the way racial je y gerrymandering as occurred in texas and florida and south carolina. were not talking ab...