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Voters of this state. >> that is important news, actually. and there are nationally implications every time there's a voting matter like this in the state of ohio. ohio state senator nina turner, thank you for helping us understand this. thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> i should mention that we reached out to secretary of state john husted's office today to see if he would talk to us about his decisions on ohio voting. his office told us the secretary's schedule would not permit him to appear on the show tonight. but if you're watching, you're welcome any tim...

They've made it harder to get your provisional ballot counted. and they made it harder to get your absentee ballot. that's definitely been a huge problem, right? way too many voting machines, a terrible scurge of voting being easy. it must be stopped. ohio republicans voted last year to make it easier to kick people off the rolls. all of these voting rights changes in ohio last year, last week and now today, they have all been made on party line 100% republican votes. or they've been decisions made by 100% republican officials. and yes these changes in ohio matter for ohio, john kasich after a...

Fitzgerald, and fewer people voting would help him. ohio republicans making these decisions to make voting harder, the tide of decisions since the last election, yeah, ohio republicans are helping themselves. they're making decisions that will affect their own elections, their own ability to hold on to their jobs. this is ohio. and when they change the rules by which people vote in that state, it does not end up just affecting ohio. it aends up affecting all of us. we should be making it easier for people to vote not

Decided they couldn't take it. significantly less than the number of people who went home rather than stay in lines was the margin of victory for george w. bush that year. after that voting disaster in 2004, ohio tried to get their act together a little bit. they didn't want that embarrassment again. between that presidential election in '04 and the next one in '08, one way ohio tried to fix its third world caliber system was by giving people more time to vote than on election day. the weekend before the election. and so 2008 rolled around and there were still lines in ohio, and people did sti...

Democratic candidates. republican candidates between the 2008 election and the last election, they got control, they got complete control of the state government in ohio. the legislature and the governorship, and with that complete republican control, they did everything they could to try to make voting harder in ohio for the last presidential election. and they specifically tried to get rid of early voting on the last weekend on election day. they would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those medaling kids. the obama re-election campaign sued ohio over them trying to get rid of t...