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She later lowered the number to 6,000 and dropped off replacement ballots to the u.s. postal service the saturday before the election. after mail carriers had gone home. prompting one postal worker to say, "there is no way in hell those people are going to get their ballots in a timely fashion." they should get their act together over there. the snafu meant thousands of voters in the democratic leaning county were out of luck. of course, bush went on to win. finally, in 2016, the 23rd congressional district race between debbie wasserman schultz and tim canova landed brenda snipes in court. he ...

>> you can't blame a brother, though. >> he loves his brother. you know, he keeps trying to get him back on the stage, and republicans keep saying no, thanks, we don't need him. it's also interesting. i wonder if jeb has seen that memo that came out from republican party operatives about the sort of panic attack they're having about the state of florida. they are losing the early vote ground game right now. they are actually very worried, particularly looking at places like palm beach, which is a democratic-leaning county, but where republicans usually have a decided advantage in absentees. th...

Has no one told jeb bush this thing about his brother's lack of popularity with the american public? >> poor jeb keeps trying. he tried it at the convention too. he just tries to slip george in there every so often. >> you can't blame a brother, though. >> he loves his brother. you know, he keeps trying to get him back on the stage, and republicans keep saying no, thanks, we don't need him. it's also interesting. i wonder if jeb has seen that memo that came out from republican party operatives about the sort of panic attack they're having about the state of florida. they are losing the early v...

President obama, but only about 1500 votes. this is a, in portsmouth, a democratic area, but rockingham is kind of a republican leaning county. this state went to president bush in 2004. the latest poll, the real politics average has the state at about 1 point. some polls have it, 1, 2, maybe 3 points towards president obama, but it seems to be shifting after that first debate. so rockingham county, one of the swing counties and that's why we're here and we'll have a special report tonight with a local panel and talk to a bunch of folks about the issues and what's really on their mind. >> 1500...

Voting against extra voting on nights and weekends. county election boards are evenly split between democrats and republicans. the republicans are voting for expanded voting hours in the counties, and they're voting against that in democratic counties. in the democratic counties where republicans are objecting to expanded early voting, the secretary of state has personally intervened to break the tie to side with the objecting republicans and make sure that, in fact, democratic-leaning counties will not have early voting on nights and weekends, and the republican-leaning counties will. here's ...