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To provide information to this. they want social security numbers, they want birth dates, they want voting history, how many times they voted in the past and some states saying, no, we're just not going to do this. errol louis what do you make of it? >> one important thing they're asking for is party registration, which aparental a contradicts privacy flalaws fro the 1970s. i think it is not a voter fraud commission so much as a voter suppression effort. >> that's what critics point out. >> i mean, critic or supporter, i'm not sure what the difference is, frankly. >> explain that. how could as...

Which has 159 counties. there are 159 county boards of election that each have their own way of doing elections. while it might seem complex and it might seem difficult to get information when you might want it, that's one of the ways we protect our ballot security. it is hard to hack the united states of america because there are 31 counties and 31 independently elected or appointed boards that make up their own systems. it is just impossible or nearly impossible. that's what's so important about it. everybody should feel, i think, relieved there was such a resounding rejection of this reques...

University shows many people here legally who have a green card, that entitles you to work, drive, own a gun, doesn't entitle you to vote, yet a high percentage of them, as high as 6% still are registered to vote, and there's nothing in the system to filter them out. what i would think democrats and republicans and anybody who cares about ballot security would say you know what, let's focus on people who are voting illegally and maybe they don't even know better, but the system can catch that and stop it. >> let me come back to you. we hear the congressman supports this investigation, but ther...

Machines or the paper ballots. these are the paper ballots. i want to go to our friend jeff here. this is the first time you've had media here. observers. this is a really big deal. a lot of people have been asking questions about security in the ballot security. how do you do this? there are three different copies in the machines? >> that's right. the machine itself has memory where the votes are stored. there is a removable memory cartridge that has the second set of the vote. and there is a paper printout of every choice that every voter made. so that -- >> sui am sorry, susan. i need to in...

This mirrors what we saw in 2012 when mitt romney won the state by 9 points and picked up arizona's 11 electoral votes. democrats also got bad news this weekend when the u.s. supreme court weighed in and said they're going to allow a law to remain in effect that would prevent political organizers from collecting ballots and returning them. democrats said it was important for people who lived on the border and for those who lived on native american reservations in minority communities. however, republicans argued that it was an issue of ballot security. the u.s. supreme court decided to stay wi...