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>> the week you could register and vote. created bipartisanly by the legislature, signed by republican governor bob taft who is really a real moderate, decent republican. he's not the right wing that they've all become. the right wingers they've become. but they've clawed all this back, so in ohio it is a shorter window, a smaller window to vote early, but the -- they're going to be there. i mean, democrats are going to be there. people of color are going to be there. people that want to support hillary are going to be there in early voting. we will catch up and do better, if in fact, i'm not ...

At from 2000 to 2014 and 1 billion ballots and found 31 cases of voter impersonation, and there can be problems with the absentee ballt los and the registration, and remember acorn which was defund and destroyed because of allegations. >> oh, yeah. >> and when they is studied the acorn, ed, not one person who was falsely or correctly registered cast a vote wrongly. >> why did they got out of business then? >> because people believed in ginned up and phony videos. >> i went to you in several times in a row, and so in fair ness i go to joan which is the reaction here, and the new polling, joan. ...

>> by miles and miles. >> no major figure has gone there. they simply have not gone there ever. >> but for democrat, if this were a democratic candidate doing that, democratic -- other democratic leaders repudiating that, it would be a much easier thing. the republican resistance to repudiating it comes that some of this has its roots in mainstream republican politics. >> what if marco rubio came out -- has come out and has taken a stand. so what do you believe? >> do you believe in this or not? >> steve, does that make you crazy that i said that? >> no. i think that it's a bit of a stretch. i...

That's not the way we do -- we conduct ourselves. and that's not what our democracy is about. >> i think it's going to be a hard test for them to pass, though. because it doesn't, honestly come out of nowhere. it's unprecedented for a presidential candidate to be there. but the republican party for the last especially the last eight years has been hyping the idea of voter fraud and stolen elections. go back to the third debate between john mccain and barack obama. he raised this issue of a.c.o.r.n., as if a.c.o.r.n. was then the menace that was going to steal the election from him. and john mc...

All the time aren't there precedents? isn't this like something that's happened? i actually think this is qualitatively different. >> you've never seen anything like this basically? >> no, not -- you've had hints of this argument. john mccain made some of these arguments in 2008. warning about voter fraud with the controversy surrounding acorn and voter registration. donald trump talked a little bit about this in 2012, after the election. but he is the nominee now, and this isn't one argument. this is the argument of the final month so this is different. >> so douglas what do you think, when t...