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Voting or having the opportunity of take advantage of evening voting. all of this is being done by design, rachel. it is not an accident that the republicans in the state of ohio are trying to break the spirit and the will of the voters in the great state of ohio. it is a shame. this is a moral issue and everyone in this state should be outraged. as you pointed out, these roadblocks, voters should not have to jump over hurdles and roadblocks just to be able to vote. voting is designed to determine their will, not how high they can jump. they're taking us back to the bad old days in the state o...

To vote, or the republican worries about who's allowed to vote and how you prove you're allowed to vote. early voting doesn't invoke any of those concerns at all. it's about when you turn up. right? and people like having more options about when to vote than just election day. by 2012, by the next presidential election in ohio, fully a third of the people who voted in that election in 2012 voted early. people like it, it's convenient to be able to vote early. but that almost didn't happen in 2012 because smooth convenient voting processes do have the nasty side effect of making voting kind of ...

Elections. and he said this while announcing cutting back on early voting. has there ever been, even the allegation that there's some connection between cheating and voting and voting at a time other than election day? >> no, rachel. they have no facts. the republicans certainly don't let the arithmetic get away of a good story. they are harming the foundation of our democracy. one thing we can say, although it's been a hard way to go for a lot of groups in this country, we have been a nation of progress. what the republicans are doing in the state of ohio, they're taking us back. they are imp...

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 still have to do some work to vote, particularly in densely po...

For it, changed their minds almost as soon as they cast their vote. they regretted their votes, they wanted the governor to veto what they had just done. there's a split even among the people who were voting on this as time went by. the governor also faced pressure to veto this republican bill from the state's two u.s. senators. neither is particularly known as a champion of gay rights or anything, both of those said that governor brewer should defy the republicans in the legislator and stop this bill from becoming law. then again, there were also these increasingly loud voices from the conser...