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We thought exsplaning reconciliation was hard. there is a new voting process for the academy awards tonight, and election officials might want to take notice. 15 u.s. presidents have been elected by 15% of the pop vote, including bill clinton twice and george bush in 2000. it has been the same with the oscars since 1945. last year in the best picture category academy members voted for one of five films, and the final tally is a secret. if it were close sl"slumdog millionaire" s could have won wi...

Inside. >> the first step in the voting process, you come over here and somebody checks your i.d. to make sure youre on the voter list for this particular room within this polling location, you walk over here and get your ballot and look how large it is, about the size after poster. the ballot then gets stamped and you walk over to one of these cardboard voting booths and basically use a pen to check off the name of a candidate and a party. the final step, you come here and you get your fingers ...

I think at this point everyone is saying "the hurt locker" because leading up to this you see the producers winning. you see katherine bigelow winning. the stage has been set for this film to go away with it. it would be a historic win for katherine bigelow if she got best director. theres a lot of this what seems right that goes into the voting process. it would seem right to have katherine bigelow be the first female director to win. i think thats really whats going to be behind a lot of the v...

There are two, separate bills that were introduced in the special session. thats h.b. 3 and s.b. 1 and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to the voting processes. and -- and different kinds of criminal penalties added to the voting process. specifically, for election officials. now, the decision to break quorum is not an easy one because it does come with a great risk. by law, they have to respond and have to be there, at the capitol. meaning, that the department of public safety could...

With the reporting. sahil, you have texas democrats, you are inside the capitol, about to deliver a news conference i think at a different location from where you are with the expectation that they will really push hard specifically on senate democrats to effectively change the rules to get something done to give them some backup in texas. >> reporter: thats right, hallie. the texas democrats have fled the state in an attempt to stop republicans there from passing some restrictions on the voting...

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Dysfunctional. theyre in total disarray and thats why america knows this is a trump shutdown. >> the detectimocratic leader mt his personal priorities ahead of everything else no matter the cost but the republicans stand with the american people. >> one thing for sure. it will be a long day and night on capitol hill. majority leader mcconnell expects to begin the voting process on a continuing resolution at 1:00 tomorrow. that would keep the government funded until february 8th. president trump ...

Its a faction ism thats taking place in the party right now so people felt that there was a man. who who could have taken the opportunity to say as a leader a failed here and there but instead went all over everything is and put the blame if it were else in terms of you know the voting process he went on to say that external faxes. change the way we do things in the a.n.c. we shouldnt have any other voices influencing these decisions essentially what he was hitting out at is much of the economis...