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Brook, we should tell you, is expected to make a full recovery. kids should watch more television, thats what im getting out of it! >> bill: we encourage that, yes. a state election that would typically be off the national rad arrest is a wake-up call for the entire country as we head towards 2012. john fund of the "wall street journal" is just back from wisconsin with a disturbing story about free and fair elections. john, good morning to you and nice to see you again in the studio. >> good m...

Fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chesters six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only marginally impacted. >> it is money t...

Fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chesters six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only marginally impacted. >> it is money t...

Fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chesters six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only marginally impacted. >> it is money t...

Fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chesters six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only marginally impacted. >> it is money t...

Split their votes as they see fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chesters six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only margina...

Worse. i think thats the main takeaway. >> talk to me about that. it could have been a lot worse? >> the petitioners in the case, including the attorney general of arizona, wanted to gut section 2. the story actually goes back a lot farther than that. in 2013, the supreme court did away with section 5 of the voting rights act. in shelby county, the court said all of the civil rights era cases and laws that congress enacted to get rid of jim crow restrictions that required preclearance by the jus...

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President signs another executive action. this time green lighting that wall along the border with mexico. he also plans to sign an order to end so-called sanctuary cities where local officials around the united states refuse to hand over undocumented immigrants. another issue that is sure to come up during todays briefing, the presidents -- their refusal to back down from false claims of massive voter fraud during the 2016 election here in the united states. today the president tweeted this. i ...