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>> we are a justice organization so we have been building a moral fusion coalition in north carolina of people, both republican, democrat and independent, who really want to see issues that affect not only african-americans but all marginalized people and poor people in our state. so that coalition has many partners that have committed to educating people. we are educating people about the voting laws. we have a souls to the polls program where on the two sundays of early voting, people literally come together to worship and then go together to march to the polls. this has been all saints day ...

System works. just because he's lds isn't a reason why i would pick someone to vote for. >> i think you need to vote your conscience. vote what you feel is best for us as a country. >> reporter: so the idea of utah being a battleground state, let's examine that a little. most people do expect that utah will stay red as it has for many many years. the difference here is that many are worried about whether or notten mcmullin will change what happens to the electoral votes and if donald trump needs them and doesn't get them that will usher in a hillary clinton presidency. overall the state more t...

Fundamentals as they were like originally but when it comes to like where trump is at today, you know, i can't kind of believe it. i have a hard time defending my party right now. i'm almost disgusted a little bit, some of the things that have happened. >> still, you cannot bring yourself to vote for hillary clinton? >> i can't. that's a fundamental thing. for me, i feel like anybody that's been in government their entire career has never been in capitalism. >> when you hear your husband talking like that, because you are going to vote for hillary clinton, right? when you hear him say that, wh...

Offense to those people's sacrifice. so we are doing all that we can to make people aware of their right to vote and to get them out to do it. >> alice, how important are people like jonathan to the democratic process? >> i think it's critical to encourage voters of all, republican or democrat, to get out and vote. it's such an important right. to his idea about specific issues, that's one thing that the trump campaign has done very well with and both sides but specifically, being able to identify voters based on the issues they are concerned with, whether it is second amendment rights, whethe...

And where the candidates stand, you are going to be able to persuade them to get to the polls and that's the key issue. it's not a secret that both of these candidates don't have high favorabilities. they are not very well liked. to be honest, neither one of them are very trustworthy. so it's a matter of persuading them on the issues that are important to them and motivating them to get out and vote. that's the key these last few days. >> jonathan, we have heard that voters aren't so enthusiastic especially in early voting in north carolina. what are you seeing? >> i think there's a great deal...