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Empowerment act to help with the voting process, martha. martha: so what does the department of defense say about all this, eric? >> reporter: the head of the pentagon voting program says registration is running about the same as in 2004, the last time an incumbent president was running and she says military voting assistance has never been better. she cites the way they get information out and social media and pentagons voting assistances offices. >> at the end of the day what were trying to do...

Help keep certain sectors of the electorate from exercising their constitutional right to vote, and in turn, this helps republicans win elections. the republican leader of the pennsylvania house said as much earlier this summer. >> voter i.d. which is going to allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania, done. >> voter i.d. isnt the only tool republicans are using. in the swing states of florida and ohio, republicans are taking aim at early voting hours, which helped president obama w...

Operatives to as self-appointed police officers of our voting process. >> when they were involved in wisconsin they were open they wanted a big presence at the scott walker recall election. when he was not recalled from office, truitt vote described that as a victory. they described that as a victory, which is what they were looking for. do partisan declarations create a higher standard of anything they have to do to justify putting themselves in polling places the way they have? >> unfortunatel...

Reasonable steps to stop voter fraud, but its simply not reasonable to allow self appointed political operatives to act as self appointed police officers of our voting process. >> when they got involvemented early ther year. they were very open about the fact that they wanted a big presence. they described that as a victory, which is what they were looking for. is that create any higher standard of anything they have to do to justify putting themselves in polling places like they have? >> this i...

Fraud, but its simply not reasonable to allow self appointed political operatives to act as self appointed police officers of our voting process. >> when they got involvemented early ther year. they were very open about the fact that they wanted a big presence. they described that as a victory, which is what they were looking for. is that create any higher standard of anything they have to do to justify putting themselves in polling places like they have? >> this is a problem with the law. we al...

Affect a lot of races. this is "the ed show." lets get to work. >> i had heard one time a medical report that said its hard to get -- its harder for somebody to get pregnant under those conditions. >> a missouri lawmakers radical rhetoric has reignited the republican war on women. >> rape is rape. >> republicans are denouncing their own candidate. super pacs are pulling money and the candidate refuses to quit. >> im not a quitter. >> tonight terry oneill on todd akins is ridiculous beliefs, joan...

Rhetoric has reignited the republican war on women. >> rape is rape. >> republicans are denouncing their own candidate. super pacs are pulling money and the candidate refuses to quit. >> im not a quitter. >> tonight terry oneill on todd akins is ridiculous beliefs, joan walsh and sam stein on the political impact in missouri and beyond. the romney camp refuses to stop lying. and today the president called them out for it. >> you cant just make stuff up. >> richard wolffe on the presidents bliste...

Megyn: support these laws. but this is a major ruling for those who support the laws why, jay? >> well, number one, youve got a judge thats issued here almost a 55-page opinion that says that the integrity of the voting process is protected by having voter id laws. and these photo ids -- by the way, in many pennsylvania that photo id can be even a college, you know, college id. so they have a lot of parameters. theyre giving out free voter ids throughout the state, theyre doing a huge educationa...

To make them feel like they are not part of the social fabric. a great way to do that is to take away their right to vote. when i talk to individuals about the right to vote, some say my vote doesnt count anyway. voters are disenfranchised here with the voting process, but when i see them, i say, if it is not important, why would they take it away? in my opinion, im not sure why we take away their vote to right at all. we knock people down a notch and take away all the rights. unfortunately, we ...

Hour trying to make us, the local officials subservient to the statewide policy, but as independent political officials our own general counsel sent us a memo last week that basically said that the state is probably in violation of the national voter registration act of 1993, and as a 24-year veteran of the administration, i was around when the nvra was passed and section eight of the law does prohibit a state from conducting a systemic purge with a few exceptions within 90 days of a federal ele...