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January and it goes january through march. hopefully they can create some of these misdeeds that they did in 2011. >> what do you think motivated them to change the law in the first place? >> oh, i think the ease of registering to vote was too much.c: c1 there were some other changes that is really locking out the chance for students to vote. in florida, the primary for 2012 was moved up two weeks to august 14th. most of the state universities don't go back into session until august 21st. >> ann mcfall -- >> why is that? >> -- supervisor of elections in florida's volusia county. it's a pleasur...

The election supervisor wrote herself in the local paper, quote, traditionally a supervisor of elections i go out of my way to avoid controversy and conflict, but legislation passed in the 2011 session was so egregious i felt i had to bring it to the attention of all interested citizens. that law was brought to the forefront in my office last week when we received by mail a packet of 50 completed applications of preregistrations from a public high school. it was an emotional day when i had to forward this information to the division of elections as being noncompliant. noncompliant as in illega...

To register, for instance, in volusia county, already registered in anotherç county. we will catch someone if abe bigoda tries to register in volusia county. it just won't happen because of our security features that the state helped us develop. it just doesn't happen. >> miss mcfall, i know that you are republican in florida. the law about voter registration this year was passed by the republican-controlled legislature. signed by the governor who shared your party. how do you square your objections to this law? your feelings about it, with your party's support for it? is this a partisan iss...

get a sense of how big this ç spill is, that tiny little rectangle there, the other rectangles of a similar size, those are containment units similar to the ones you see loaded on the back of an 18 wheeler which is something that's this size. the explosion tossed the units into the mire and into the lake like they were tonka trucks or toothpicks. the flat piece in the muck is the roof of a building. the scale of this makes it look like a monopoly hotel. the company that operates this power plant that had this spill today, wi energies, wi as in wisconsin energies, say the disaster h...

lake michigan in wisconsin. for perspective here, so you can get a sense of how big this spill is, that tiny little yellow rectangle there, the other rectangles of a similar size, those are containment units similar to the ones you see loaded on the back of an 18 wheeler which is something that's this side. the explosion tossed the units into the mire and into the lake like they were tonka trucks or toothpicks. the flat piece in the muck is the roof of a building. the scale of this makes it look like a monopoly hotel. the company that operates this power plant that had this spill tod...