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Leaned in on that report when it came time to reject ohio's votes. >> democratic judiciary committee staff report clearly establishes that the state of ohio has not met its obligation to conduct a fair election. ohio's partisan secretary of state, mr. kenneth blackwell, i'm ashamed to say, an african-american man, has failed even to follow ohio's election procedures, let alone procedures that comply with federal law and constitutional requirements. our ancestors who died for the right to vote certainly must be turning over in their graves. >> again, they weren't alleging votes had been changed...

Maxine waters leaned in on that report when she voted to reject ohio's elected votes. >> the judiciary democratic judiciary committee clearly establishes that the state of ohio has not met its obligation to conduct a fair election. ohio's partisan secretary of state, mr. kenneth blackwell i'm ashamed to say an african american man has failed to even follow ohio's election procedures let alone procedures that comply with federal law and constitutional requirements. our ancestors who died for the right to vote certainly must be turning over in their graves. >> they weren't alleging that votes ha...

The obamacare case overshadowed the term. >> so people know what that is, melissa, sorry, you were getting there but we have a graphic, too, the question to the court in that particular case is what is the standard that courts ought to use deciding whether a change in election procedures violates the voting rights act. that is the critical one. >> it concerns section two, the remaining sections with teeth of that landmark civil rights litigation since 2013 when the supreme court gutted the preclearance for teachers of the voting rights act making it hard are for individuals to have voting righ...

>> you are secretary of state in the state of arizona. and you're going run for governor. recently, the state legislature in a suite of bills that were passed in just sort of make it harder to vote, one of the things they did was to actually change some of the jurisdiction you have personally over some election procedures and give them to the governor, if not i'm mistaken. can you explain what that was all about? >> so, basically, they're taking constitutional things that are assigned to my office in the constitution, giving them to the attorney general, that will basically tie my hands and ma...

Earnest laid a bills over the past in just sort of making it harder the vote, one of the things they did was to change some of the jurisdiction you have overselling election procedures and give them to the governor if i'm not mistaken. can you explain what that was all about? >> basically, they are taking constitutional things that are assigned to my office in the constitution, giving them to the attorney general that will then basically take a -- time a hands and make it impossible for me to do my job. we believe this is blatantly unconstitutional. it has not made it to the governors desk yet...