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Deserve to vote, not if you can jump through this hurdle, that hurdle and pay a fees. people are not doing this because of the reasons they say, quote, unquote, voter fraud. george bush went for years looking for that. last year, we had nine. prosecutors can take care of this. you don't need to disenfranchise millions of people. >> we show voter fraud and comparing it to other things that might befall you. how often people are struck by lightning, 352 times compared to the 9 voter imposters and the number of ufo sightings, over 32,000. you are far more likely to see a ufo or be struck by light...

In place 50 years before that. those laws like the poll tax and the literacy test and the grandfather clause, this is the new fang ld version of that. when you give somebody a voter i.d. requirement and that person was born into the hands of a midwife who may not have been sure they got a birth certificate, it can be a legal nightmare that takes years for them to be able to register to vote. when you are in a state like wisconsin where black and brown folks are hugely disproportionately poor, three-quarters of young black men don't have a valid i.d. for two reasons. one, they are too poor to o...

Some kind of i.d. when they vote. 16 states have a law you can say bring your utility bill or a bank statement instead of a more traditional i.d. as proof that you're a registered voterment finally the states with no voter i.d. law, those are in black. those include california and new york. although, those aren't ones that are battleground states for sure. i'm joined by the director of voter protection for the dnc. good morning, will. how are you? >> good morning, chris. thank you for having me. >> debbie wasserman schultz called this the literacy test. why? do you agree? >> i think what we're...

>> thanks. up next, republican governors and legislatures are trying to make it harder for african-american students and the poor to vote. they are trying to keep down the traditional democratic vote the old way. they don't have a poll tax and they don't have a literacy test but new ideas. the republican assault on voting rights coming up next.

The racists around the south, the old joke about the literacy test what does this say it says basically you are not going to get the vote here in grosser language like that ask you to explain something in greek or something. let me get a look here. here is list of the birthers out there. by the way, this is a list of people that i think is going to go in ignominy. look at these things, bill posey of florida, marsha blackburn of tennessee, dan byrd, look at the names, indiana, john campbell of california, john carter of texas, michael conaway of texas, john culbertson of texas, trent franks of ...