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Subsequent to that, but now you guys believe the most pressing concern is for you to make it harder to vote. what are you fixing? >> yes, thank you for that, chris. look, i have been in the legislature now six sessions. roughly 200 or so bills are filed every session in the elections committee, and they have addressed issues like fraud, mail balloting, ballot harvesting, making sure veterans in combat zones have to access to the ballot. so, these bills are filed every session on these issues, and i don't really see any difference in what we're doing this session. >> well, here's a couple diffe...

To be deadlocked in this way? it seems to be shaping up -- arlette saenz was talking about this a few moments ago, they just don't have the votes in the senate it seems to push this through? >> that is really the singular focus of all the groups working on this. as i said the courts are not really an answer. it is unlikely that john roberts, who set all of this in motion with the shelby county decision in 2013 where he argued voting discrimination was a thing of the past. the one lever the democrats have is to set a national floor of voting rights to guarantee americans early access to early b...

County, over 60% of the absentee by mail ballots requested were not returned. the concern is what happened to those ballots, but more importantly, with the affidavits that have come out through the state democratic party, concerns by voters about potential ballot tampering by those who were going around to collect ballots, which is illegal in north carolina. i think a lot of this is all kind of tied together to absentee by mail balloting in the ninth congressional district. >> i know you had some other things to say about this today. you had called the allegations rumors about unproven voting ...

Were contractors. there is serious issues the way background checks are performed. the issue is not who is doing it. there's clearly problems in federal agencies as well as contractors. might be an issue of oversight. this company has 100 u.s. federal contracts of 95 different federal agencies. someone within the federal government should be going through a lot of these things after they send out the contract to make sure they are doing them appropriately. >> a good point. point well taken. ellison barber, thank you very much. >> thank you. new report offering solution for laundry list of pr...

Republican texas legislature intentionally discriminated against minorities in drawing congressional districts and other districts and so this voting rights decision certainly doesn't help in a state like texas. >> i would even go a little further than it doesn't help. let's look at the stark facts of the state of texas, it's growing in population, the population growth is coming disproportionately from hispanics, it's going to be the case in the near future that there will be a hispanic majority in that state, if you are a white republican in the state of texas, you have every incentive to li...