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Triple. at least 61 bills with restricted provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures. including in texas until last night. last night, democrats in the state house representatives walked out preventing a quor-up on state senate bill 7. at midnight, it delayed the measure at least until governor calls them back for a special session which he says he will. as for what's in the bill, they deny it is intended to disenfranchise minority voters, especially blacks. however, it contains provisions that could. it outlaws drive-up voting and 24-hour voting, both used in the highly democratic ho...

More by optics. >> i don't quite understand. the argument of having voting start at 1:00 p.m. on sundays and not before, you know, a lot of democrats are saying this is clearly targeting successful souls to the polls programs which bring people from churches to polling places. so it's convenient. what is the argument for saying that -- what's the problem with that? >> the way republicans talk about this bill, the very title of it is a voter integrity bill. it goes back once again to creating this atmosphere and talking about this issue as if this bill is designed to ensure the integrity, to en...

Essentially this bill is about optics, not really pointing to any fraud or repetitive fraud that would be a concern for wanting to pass a bill like this but simply described it as driven more by optics. >> i don't quite understand -- i mean, the argument of having voting start at 1:00 p.m. on sundays and not before, you know, a lot of democrats say this is clearly targeting successful souls to the polls programs which brings people from churches to polling places so it's convenient. what is the argument for saying that that's -- what's the problem with that? >> well, the way republicans talk a...

Is back at it again. >> now, you guys know i love joy. it is not a contest. but let me try. once again, today, we have an edition of "this week in voter suppression sclts "! and it's brought to you by the letters o-h-i-o. it was just over a week ago that ohio governor john kasich signed laws that cut six days off of early voting and absentee ballots were limited and john husted delivered another setback to voting rights with another cutback to early votes. he squashed early voting during the very class where a lot of people have free times, sundays and weekdays after 5:00 and that also affects...