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Offered no evidence its a widespread problem. sadly, it could be an eternal series. the voter suppression is not over. south carolina and pennsylvania passed voter id laws that while suspended by judges for 2012 could impact elections next year. in some states like wisconsin and missouri, republicans are considering enshrining roader id laws in their constitutions. some want to fix voting problems, others think things are fixed just fine. back with my panel, richard kim, bob herbert, liz, author...

Voter had to feed into the machine. >> how much of a role did cutting back early voting hours play in this? >> it was interesting. our early voting totals which totalled 145,000 was only off about 9,000 voters. they allowed us the same number of hours so we were open 12-hour days for early voting so we caught a lot of people going to work and coming home where before we only had eight hours. what we need in florida, though, is to expand where we can have early voting. right now we can only have ...

>> eric: 15 electoral votes, polls close at 7:30 north carolina. >> greg: yeah, well, you know how many people are going to vote? 90,00,001. this morning they said 90 million people would vote but then i added. i dont know anything, i am sick of polls. after today, if i hear the word "gallup" or "pew" it better be because a horse broke wind. i dont want to hear their name forever. i have been hearing a lot of weird, weird voting problems going on. joe biden got confused because he complained the...

New reports cpa is cracking down on cole ahead of tomorrows vote. more reports of voting problems a member of the military says he was given the wrong ballot. usly. haha. theres more than that though, theres a kick to it. wahlalalalallala! smooth, but crisp. its kind of like drinking a food thats a drink, or a drink thats a food, woooooh! [ male announcer ] taste it and describe the indescribable. couldve had a v8.

Problems with voting machines and how wide spread do you think that is? is that something that both camps should be worried about? >> look, we dont have any perfect systems any time you have electronic voting system you have cal voting problems. but the ohio system, what i love, we have transparency and a lot of back up systems to make sure that the sort of things that people are wringing their hands about will not the outcome of our election ask well have a result whether we get it election nig...

Think that is? is that something that both camps should be worried about? >> look, we dont have any perfect systems any time you have electronic voting system you have cal voting problems. but the ohio system, what i love, we have transparency and a lot of back up systems to make sure that the sort of things that people are wringing their hands about will not the outcome of our election ask well have a result whether we get it election night or two weeks from election night. that hommeds the con...

Think that is? is that something that both camps should be worried about? >> look, we dont have any perfect systems any time you have electronic voting system you have cal voting problems. but the ohio system, what i love, we have transparency and a lot of back up systems to make sure that the sort of things that people are wringing their hands about will not the outcome of our election ask well have a result whether we get it election night or two weeks from election night. that hommeds the con...

Politics, live in cincinnati, ohio tonight. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> bishop curry, let me start with you. what do you make of latest voting problems in your state? >> well, im not surprised. even though the race is nonpartisan, the mayor is a tea party republican. so im not surprised by whats going on here in miami-dade county. but what i am happy about, reverend sharpton, is that people of miami die-dadmiami-da palm beach county, it doesnt matter how long th...

Down around where it was, i think really five or six points in the presidents favor. so they have this dishonest ad on saying jeep is going to ship its jobs to china. and the great irony of that ad, by the way, in a news broadcast in ohio, you can see 22 consecutive political ads, the newscasters says romney has a fake ad about jobs being shipped to china. lets go to commercial break and you see the ad. so the ad is preemptively denounced. >> what about pennsylvania? could there be the calculati...

>> if i got the call right now, right now to go to libya or anywhere else to help folks and they needed me, i would be there right now. every single military member, cia folks, state department guys, security, anybody would step up to the plate and run out there in harms way to save fell will he americans. there is no doubt about it. >> brian: you think he was disingenuous when he said that because you and delta force and guys like you do this all the time? >> folks like us and that are out ther...