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I think there's a record. it is true that many of the schemes, many of the types of things we see today may not match what you saw in 1965. but i do think that the court was wrong in striking down section four. and i think as the chairman said, you're going to see a mobilization from people who will say this is a democracy issue. we want congress to act now. >> but chairman, is it a democracy issue as mark is pointing out, is the supreme court really putting this on the american people, reminding them what democracy is all about? and we're going to have own it individually. basically fast forw...

People in the states will fight against early voting cutbacks et cetera. we have the state fights, but we really need to get congress on board to move this. republicans have got to step up and listen to the voters because this isn't a republican or democratic issue. this is a democracy issue. >> right. this is for the table. this all makes sense. we agree with what was said. aren't we at risk as we get farther from the election people are going to let it go? we have fiscal cliff and other issues. >> i might have said that before the election. the thing that surprised me about the election was ...

Clear. now, when you compare that to the votes, if you look around the country because people need to understand that this is not only a civil rights issue, it's a democracy issue. >> that's right. if you look at the obama people that are disenfranchised. let me show you the screen in ohio where we talked about the early voting. in ohio, early voting, 1.7 million early votes cast. president obama won the state by 300,000 votes. if you knock out 1.7 million votes. >> that's right. >> you can clearly determine that he could lose the state just because people didn't have early voting, and you hav...