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That essentially criminalizes voter this is the practice of helping your neighbor, helping your friend, helping your mom or your grandmother vote. it criminalizes that activity in a lot of ways. it creates trap doors and tripwire. you didn t persuade or encourage someone to select you to help them vote. so what that means is if i say, hey, come on, it s wednesday, let s go vote, i promise you i d take you, let s go do it. what that means is that when i m filling out that oath and it says, did you persuade this person to choose you to act as their assistant, did i, didn t i? i m not sure. and the penalty for that is criminal. so, if i don t want to get myself in trouble, i might back off and say never mind. my aunt, my grandmother, my neighbor who i ve gone with might say i don t want to get diego in trouble, this isn t ....
This, there s an oath you now have to take that says you didn t persuade or encourage someone selected to help them vote so with that means is if i say, hey, it s wednesday let s go vote. i promised you i will take you. what that means is that when i m filling out that oath and it says did you persuade this person to choose you to act as their assistant? didn t i? i m not sure. and the penalty for that is criminal and so i don t want to get myself in trouble i might back off and say never mind. my aunts, my grandmother, my neighbor who i run with might say i don t want to get anyone in trouble in this isn t gonna work out the way i want to. the safest thing for both of us to do is to walk away. they re criminalizing what we ve done in our community for a long time and they re making it harder to vote and that s exactly why we re here. because you re taking every day access and making it harder. ....
Easier to overturn an election so is it your hope that with this second ending of the quorum, that you will get further concessions from texas republicans? well, we did see those provisions removed and they said it was a mistake having it in there. accidentally cutting the bill finally but still the bill has been written right now and has many restrictions and there that will be very awful for the state of texas. let me go to you now representative diego burnout. can you talk about the impact to specific communities? absolutely, and thanks for asking. there s a provision in the bill that essentially is the practice of helping your neighbor and helping your friend, helping your mom or grandmother vote and so with the provision does is is it criminalizes that activity in a lot of ways and the worst is ....
We ll tell you what to look out for. you need to know this and tell other people. no matter where you live in this country, we ll tell you the important things you need to do to make sure your vote is counted. do not get discouraged. no matter what, go vote. first, 15 states and the district of columbia are offering same-day voter registration. please pay attention to this. that means you can show up to the polls, register to vote and cast a ballot and do all of it today. if you have not registered to vote but live in one of these places, please go do it. and i tweeted this out and people said that s not the case in california. it is the case in california. you couldn t do it in the last few days, but today you can register while you re voting. you re watching v velshi & ruhl on msnbc. always a catch. like somehow you wind up getting less. but now that i book at hilton.com, and i get all these great perks. i got to select my room from the floor plan. very nice. i know, i m good at ....
Done. reporter: and your vote reflected that. ali and steph, republican campaigns are looking at this hour, rick scott and ron desantis are looking to run up their margins in this place, collier county, lee county. the gillum folks are trying to make their mark here, keep margins low. we were in ft. myers with andrew gillum last week and he was saying that he s been getting pretty sizeable crowds in those republican areas. whether or not that turns out in the vote we ll see, but more than 5 million people have voted in florida already, so clearly turnout is high already, so the results are going to be really interesting tonight when we actually see what they roll out. and we ll be watching results from all across florida very, very, very closely. a tight senate race, tight gubernatorial race and a lot of house seats. think about all of those people who are displaced in puerto rico by hurricane maria. many went to florida. let s go to new jersey, democrats are hoping senator bob ....