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Who are quite far for them, 1.2 million eligible voters whose income falls below the poverty line, 1.2 million african-american voters that are quite a distance from their state office. it is a real burden. talk to me about why. why is it that -- people ask me all the time, why don't you just have an i.d.? what sort of person doesn't have the kind of i.d. you need to vote? >> melissa, first of all, i hope the stayistics came from our brennan report which we just released a few weeks ago that goes into detail to talk about how difficult it is to get the reckry sit i.d. to vote in these states. ...

And in louisiana, 130,000 black voters registered in 1896 dropped down 1,342 by 1904. after discriminatory voting laws were enacted. thank goodness those days are over, right? today, 71% of voting age americans are registered voters and more than 17 million of them are african-american. all that in no smart part thanks to our constitution, which was amended and expanded to extend the vote to all americans, but you see the evolution of our laws around voting has historically moved to making the vote more, not less acceptable to citizens. and it is why as americans we should be concerned about t...

Melissa, is that the court made a decision that's going to make it difficult for thousands of voters in pennsylvania to cast their ballot. the court was able to see by the evidence that was presented that there are numerous pennsylvanians who are not going to be able to add here to the requirements that the legislator has set up. unfortunately the court said it believed that the steps that pennsylvania is taking to ensure that the voters in the state have the reck questionrequisite i.d., that everyone in pennsylvania would have the requisite i.d. and be able to therefore vote. we don't think t...

Required. my history of running election cycles, there are a lot of things that go back to registration and victoria, i agree, and nicole both, it is a right, it is not an entitlement to vote, but you have to exercise that right. and one of the things i'll tell you about the voting problems that cops around, is in my home state, you're from virginia, i'm from south carolina, we have been having dead people voting for years. years. right now in south carolina we had 953 in the last cycle. there aren't even alive -- it looks like a may cal jackson thriller coming in. >> you have them voting. >> ...

What they didn't realize is 50% of all those people that lived in new orleans didn't have a driver's license and didn't have a car either. as we talk about these issues, the presumption is because most middle class people have cars and driver's licenses, doesn't everybody else? the short number is no. 25% of african-americans in this country of voting age don't have the requisite id to vote in this election. that is voter suppression at its highest level. >> in the last year, 18 states have passed or have pending voter regulations. why is this happening right now? is there some happenstance, s...