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Main focus is getting out the vote. you can see the folks voting behind me, and this is a state that president trump won in 2016, but he hasp an extremely competitive governors race, and i want to bring up eric sellers who is here as the county director of elections. how many have you seen by mail and in person? >> we have had 113,000 that we have manld 68,000 have been returned where we are almost 60% of the return rate. typically we will see 90% of the ballots coming back. >> and in-person vot...

Cold and snowy election day in western pennsylvania. polls in district 18 will close? a little over four hours. because of this special election. the deciding between conor lamb, democrat, rick saccone, the republican, who president trump tweeted his endorsement for mths morning a few minutes before dropping the news also on twitter he fired rex tillerson. vaughn hillyard is in mcke mckeesport, pennsylvania. vaughn, what is going on, how are things looking there? >> reporter: good, despite, snow...

>> yeah. and you have examples in arkansas. a republican election commissioner intimidating voters showing up and yelling "shut up and go home" to early voters. you have white nationalalists claiming they plan to go and distribute weed and alcohol in african-american communities to try to suppress the vote. the idea that people can actually show up at a polling place with a gun, yell at people as theyre voting, is it legal to be on the property of a voting location and do that? >> well, states d...

>> reporter: clinton campaign organizers stress the need to get out the african-american vote especially here in the northern counties of ohio. and to that end theyre going to do another one of these souls to the polls. this has been traditionally african-american churches where after service the church buses are loaded up and people go to the nearest voting location. if youre not a member of any faith, then they have another way, you got rapper jay-z coming to town. hes going to have a concert ...

Someone who may become president, what that does is embolden less stable, less invested people in this country to attack, to shoot, to possibly try to capture a voting location and thats a problem. trump is responsible for it. >> lets all remember, it didnt start with trump. jesse helms joked about the president being assassinated if he came to north carolina back when bill clinton was president. thanks for joining me. >> thank you, chris. still ahead, the state of the race eight days out, com...

They have gone full and the long-term consequences of this, if you have sitting senators who can make jokes about killing someone who may become president, what that does is embolden less stable, less invested people in this country to attack, to shoot, to possibly try to capture a voting location and thats a problem. trump is responsible for it. >> lets all remember, it didnt start with trump. jesse helms joked about the president being assassinated if he came to north carolina back when bill c...

Saw the new black panthers come out and supposedly try to intimidate voters at a voting location, however, those voters they were try to be intimidate turned out to be a falsehood, it wasnt a true moment. listen, hes doing it -- he has his reasons but for him to in the election hes got to talk about ideas and how to governor. hes got to talk about how hes going to be the leader of the free world and stop talking about this, because while it might get some of his voters riled up and get them out ...

Theyre highly democratic. whats going on here? whats he trying to say with this? isnt the irony about illinois is hes not going to win illinois and when hes talking about chicago, hes talking about the 1960s and kennedys win and there was some kind of fraud back then in order to get jfk the presidency and did his father do it. so, the idea that hes going to chicago, harkens back to a time most voters in the election have any understanding of it. when he talks about philadelphia, hes trying to ...

Than 30 minutes to vote. the report is filled with very specific guidance about how to speed up voter lines, including, of course, early voting. heres one example of the level of detail in the submissions report. election officials should pretest the length of time it takes an average voter to vote a ballot in order to accurately estimate how many poll workers, machines and voting stations will be needed at each voting location. that, of course, is something that election officials should have b...

Early voting. the governor of virginia wants to extend hours for casting absentee ballots only. the virginia governor says hes confident precincts will be ready for election day. >> we dont believe there will be any problem with any voting location, any precinct of the 2800 or so precincts. none of them we anticipate will have any problem being fully operational next tuesday. >> which will be no easy managing editor of politi-geek.com. so this is go down as a thing we talk about in history, the ...