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An infomercial for america for early voting. voting early. it slices, it dices, it juliennes. there are a million new stories about specific states and specific counties screwing with the voting process. remember we told you last week how the largest county in arizona, they were telling spanish speaking voters to vote on the 8th of november? and english speaking voters to vote on actual election day which is the 6th. now it turns out its worse in that county. maricopa county it turns out is sayi...

This was the president of the united states essentially doing an infomercial for america for early voting. voting early. it slices, it dices, it juli juliannes. there are a million new stories about specific states and specific counties screwing with the voting process. remember we told you last week how the largest county in arizona, they were telling spanish speaking voters to vote on the 8th of november? and english speaking voters to vote on actual election day which is the 6th. now it turns...

Rican community. all the hispanic communities. young people, african-american. if you look at the subsets, the women voters, young voters, our margins are about 30 points over republicans. its about the message that the president has been giving. we do see that every month. >> early voting begins in florida this saturday, is that right? >> right. this saturday. >> in 2008 we know floridians waited hours in some cases for the chance to early vote. not just election day lines, but early voting lin...

Women voters, young voters, our margins are about 30 points over republicans. its about the message that the president has been giving. we do see that every month. >> early voting begins in florida this saturday, is that right? >> right. this saturday. >> in 2008 we know floridians waited hours in some cases for the chance to early vote. not just election day lines, but early voting lines. this time around the legislature cut the days for early voting by quite a bit. can you as a political party...

>> with the sole intent of intimidating people. people should not have to go to a voting place, reverend sharpton, in fear and to be addressed. and then basically one of the things that this investigation is going to do is were trying to find out, for example, what kind of information are they basing their challenges on? we also would like to look into how do they select the various places that they are going into poll watches, as you would say. it would be interesting to see whether those are i...

Theyre not allowing us to have high principles and low practices. >> thats the silver lining. i agree with you a thousand percent. i was in a barbershop last week. >> which is all knowledge and wisdom. >> in terms of voter apathy shall not voting, its pretty high, at least in my barbershop. my barber specifically said i need to understand this voter i.d. stuff. i immediate to know what i need to have. >> what an interesting moment i said. this is a delicious moment where someone quite frankly is...

Pennsylvanias voter id law under todays ruling, voter id will be implemented, but on a different time frame. this november all voters will be asked to show photo id when they vote, though it will not be required. this is, essentially, the same voting process we implemented in the spring primary. in the meantime, we are reviewing all legal options. well, this story is far from over. eric shawn has been following it from the beginning, and hes going to have a live report in just a few moments. >> ...

First all, it could cut both ways. you could say, the romney people say if we are that far behind, why bother? it is better not to have your bases for the be there because of the other guy which is what romneys people are. they are not there for romney but they are there because they do not like obama. the talk of polls being off because of the 2008 turn out model, let me explain to people that since 2008 there have been millions of new voters who is come into the voting process who are young pe...

Or you think some of these independents are going to vote early? >> i think, again -- we have to ask why were pushing this early voting. i thought our civic duty was supposed to be on election day with circumstances for our military, disabled, other people who cannot get to the polls. now its roll in voting process where the thing is not over yet. people are declaring this election over. i think for a reason. because their guy could very well be in a lot of trouble. republicans have an unbelieva...

In north carolina, just 1.7%. virginia, 1.4%. and florida is at 15.7%. while members of the military register to vote from their home states in 2009 congress passed the military and overseas voter empowerment act which is meant to help smooth the voting process. >> with the low numbers it raised serious questions for us not only about whether the service members will have their voices heard on election day but more importantly whether that important federal law was actually implemented. >> repor...