right now democrats have an advantage. axios is looking at the variety of ways to hack an election. what did you find out? this is the new butterfly ballot. the new butterfly ballot is the convoluted system we have across 50 state elections, flash drives and wireless connections and regular old e-mail. you look across how we physically vote and you see a lot of what my grandma used to call chewing gum and bailing wire. a system where we register to vote which can be hacked. the database that then is created of those registrations. look at the polling books that they have at the polling places, sometimes electronic. sometimes on paper. sometimes from third-party vendors that introduce their own vulnerabilities. look at the way we count it that s different in all these places often with no paper trail. and you add all this up, and you see that there s so many points
talk about health care. do you remember whether he was for the big push up front from the start? no. it was an open discussion. i think in his heart that s what he thought was necessary. he knew that, given the economy and the politics of that moment, that the likelihood that we would have large democrat majorities in his second two years was very faint and so if we were going to deal with health care, we were going to have to deal with it in the first couple of years or it wouldn t get done. and that was the argument that he made. by summer of 2009, the polling reflected the water that he was taking on as a result of health care and i went into his office with polling books and i remember standing in the middle of the oval office and he listened respectfully and when he was done he said, yeah, but i just got back from green bay and i talked to a woman 36 years
very personal. listen in. talk about health care. do you remember whether he was for the big push up front from the start? no. it was an open discussion. i think in his heart that s what he felt was necessary. he knew that, given the economy and the politics of that moment, that the likelihood that we would have large democrat majorities in his second two years was very faint and so if we were going to deal with health care, we were going to have to deal with it in the first couple of years or it wouldn t get done. and that was the argument that he made. by summer of 2009, the polling reflected the water that he was taking on as a result of health care and i went into his office with polling books and i remember standing in the middle of the oval office and he listened respectfully and when he was done he said, yeah, but i just got back from green bay
every election cycle in 2012, the national average was voter turnout i should say was 58%. here in inconorth carolina, it 68%. in wake county, this battleground of tax, 75% voter turnout. we ve seen the line here in the community of bedford all morning long, 3 1/2 hours into voting. let me take you next door. we have had some reports from the durham county board of elections and i got some information from the north carolina state board of election that there had been some problems with the polling check-in system there, computerized system in at least five locations. there have been some problems with the computers they use to check people in. so out of an abundance of caution, they ve moved to polling books. now, this will not affect tabulation, we re told, however, it will cause some of those lines to get a little longer. but again, they tell us this should not affect the tabulation of the votes. it s a democratic county. democrats there outnumber republicans 5-1 with a substant