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Joining me now are congresswoman marcy captor, democrat from ohio. and john saults. he wrote a piece on think progress.org titled why does mitt romney want to restrict voting rights for more than 900,000 ohio veterans. thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >> congresswoman, let me start with you. explain to our viewers what romney is claiming here. >> well, what he's saying is that he's actually twisting the truth. because in ohio the accomplishment have denied early voting the last three -- that means our senior citizens, the

Because they know the president is ahead. >> now, john, you took it a step further. you pointed out that the law is only talking about active military. it doesn't even cover veterans. is that right? >> that's correct. this is a terminology issue. a veteran is someone currently on active duty. when you leave active duty you're a veteran. what mitt romney plans to do, there are over 900,000 veterans in the state of ohio. if you're a veteran you're over the age of 18 and you could vote. under the romney plan, 900,000 veterans won't be able to vote early. active military is a different term. the l...