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Chaired was formed as a consequence of the 2000 debacle with the hanging chads and help america vote act was passed to not only fund the purchase of new voting machines but to create federal standards for voting. that's the key, when we talk about voting rights. voting rights function within the context of election administration, early voted started back in those days. what happens is the convergence of partisan bickering and underfunding, lack of training and no standards at all and so we can go literally county by county, state by state and find different levels of administration, different...

Opposition. do it spread to red districts? it really depends on which ones we're talking about. >> you know what's so interesting, ginger, congress is in disarray and you look at the way laws are being passed. city by city, county by county, state by state, that's how things are seeming to get done. is this the new norm? >> the federal government is largely deferring to the states. new jersey voted a constitutional amendment to raise their minimum wage earlier this month. california is going to start raising theirs. we see cities upping theirs. and there's no sign that anything could actually ...

But the former speaker of the house, jim wright from ft. worth, he went to go and try and obtain a voter i.d. card, and he couldn't obtain a voter i.d. card. that's how absurd this law is. that's how bad it's gotten here. and it's all about suppressing the rights of african-americans and latinos, elderly and the poor to vote in the state of texas. >> i was struck by the "ap" observation, what they found in their assessment. they went through county by county and looked at the voter lists in every county in texas to see the impact of the law would be. and they found that texas voters who don't ...

Card. that's how absurd this law is. that's how bad it's gotten here. and it's all about suppressing the rights of african-americans and latinos, elderly and the poor to vote in the state of texas. >> i was struck by the "ap" observation, what they found in their assessment. they went through county by county and looked at the voter lists in every county in texas to see the impact of the law would be. and they found that texas voters who don't have the right i.d. to be able to vote live disproportionately in counties with high poverty rates and/or a large percentage of minorities. was that -- ...

Announced a new national director of voter protection to work on these issues across the country. but in the meantime these issues are happening at the very local level. texas elections, for example, are under way with these new draconian and bewildering set of rules and for now at least it's being left to local officials operating precinct by precinct, town by town, county by county, to try to figure out how to make this new law work and how far they're going to have to try to stretch the law and try to work around it and work through it to let people who have been voting for years keep votin...