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>> our complaint and lawsuit will show how this voter suppression deal and its many eerey elements revisit the tactics of jim crow in the 2 1st century. >> joining me now, susan myrick, policy analyst at a conservative think tank in north carolina. susan, my first question is, one of the things this bill does is it moves back the end of early voting so it has to end saturday at 1:00 p.m. it used to extend through sunday. what evidence do you have that there's a disproportionate amount of voter fraud committed in the 30 hours or so between 1:00 p.m. on saturday and the end of sunday? >> well, a...

Plus, did the department of justice really try to change a bunch of numbers on its website and hope we didn't notice? well, we noticed. that and a collection of other political sneakiness coming up. we begin tonight with what appears to be the most restrictive voting measure passed in this country in the deep south since the voting rights act was signed in 1965. speaking of sneakiness, the bill was signed last night by north carolina governor pat mccrory, more than two weeks after it passed with no lye ceremony, not so much as a picture, just this weird 90-second hostage-style video. >> hi, ...

Hours. it just takes that option away from the counties. four hours. >> okay. what about this 16-year-old and 17-year-old preregistration program for high school students which has also been done away with in the bill? what evidence is there that those 16-year-old and 17-year-olds were committing some disproportionate amount of fraud? >> well, i don't think there was any evidence they were committing fraud. i think the 16-year-old and 17-year-old legislation really went nowhere. while the proponents thought it would encourage young people to vote, all it really did was put their personal infor...

>> okay. what about this 16-year-old and 17-year-old preregistration program for high school students which has also been done away with in the bill? what evidence is there that those 16-year-old and 17-year-olds were committing some disproportionate amount of fraud? >> well, i don't think there was any evidence they were committing fraud. i think the 16-year-old and 17-year-old legislation really went nowhere. while the proponents thought it would encourage young people to vote, all it really did was put their personal information on a website so anybody could access if. in north carolina, if...

They're ending same-day registration. turning loose these vigilantes to go into these polling places. this is our governor deciding to join the interposition and nullifiers like in the 1960s, george wallace, strom thurmond. he's on the wrong side of history. this is extreme, and it's a fundamental crime against democracy and attack on our voting rights. >> rick, you are -- reverend barber is an activist, obviously. he's been working on this issue in north carolina. you're an academic. you study election law. you write about election law. you're probably the most read election law scholar, cert...