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New this morning, internal text messages with republican lawmakers in florida, undercutting the claims the state's new, more restricting voting law was not politicly motivating. a senate proposal was defended to cancel all existing mail-in ballot requests, saying it would be devastating to republicans to keep them valid heading into 2022 election, when desantis and other state republican officials are up for re-election. that proposal did not ultimately make it into the final bill, but republicans did shorten the time the ballot requests would be remain valid. joining us now, florida man, the ...

>> brian kemp has, i think, a pretty bad history when it comes to suppressing votes. when i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say he's not doing something new but he's using every old trick in the book. that's what's kind of unique about him. he doesn't just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio the other year, he has this exact match program, which stacey abrams challenged and the system of...

When i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say he's not doing something new but he's using every old trick in the book. that's what's kind of unique about him. he doesn't just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio the other year, he has this exact match program, which stacey abrams challenged and the system of rejecting absentee ballots of whether or not the signature appears to match someone'...

Vote data from other parts of the country. and i should say, despite news like that out of telephone, the early vote data that we're getting is n all good news for hillary clinton's campaign. for example new early voting data from ohio and it is good news for donald trump. we saw those ecstatic pictures of people flooding into the county clerk office. a lot of those people, if not all of them in these images are hillary clinton supporters. but the early data so far out of ohio is not good news for democrats. cuyahoga county, ballot requests down almost 20%. that's where democrats bank their vo...

Installations there be voting assistance facilities and the inspector general has documentd that only about half of the bases complied with those laws. and we know that many in many places absentee he ballot requests are way down from deployed military and it is a national disgrace and i'm very disappointed in the pentagon's failure to lead on this issue. >> shannon: we know that you constantly keep an eye on that issue. one you have been working on for years. we will check back with you on that in the wake of this election and see if improvements are made. talk about the senate where you are ...