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It's really an all or nothing proposition. so we're all going to do our part here in texas. i feel like we've done as much as you can ask us to do. now the senate needs to do theirs. >> are you accepting of the compromise that he's put forth? i'll put up on the screen some of the critical components of it. make election day a holiday. universal democratic acceptance. mandate 15 consecutive days of early voting. how about this, require voter id with allowable alternatives, utility bill, et cetera. how does congressman beto o'rourke feel about that? >> well, that would be an improvement over wha...

Exclude many voters if it's limited to driver's licenses and other forms of i.d.s that republican legislation use. and here's what stacey abrams told nicolle wallace today about why she can now accept senator manchin's version of voter i.d. let me read to you what stacy abrams said since that video's not going to tell you. "it's about making sure that, yes, you can demonstrate you are -- who you are, but that the restrictions placed on how you do so should not be untenable. you should not be allowed to use your gun license in texas, but not your student i.d. so across this country we are seein...

It won't cost anything. then you can use it in state and local elections as well as federal ones. >> curtis allred, the voter i.d. provision in this bill, if it is passed into law eventually, would that override any of the voter i.d. provisions that already exist out there in some republican states that, for example, allow you to use a gun license, don't allow you to use a student i.d.? >> unfortunately you're talking about my state, there, lawrence. we have only a limited set of i.d.s we could use. it would. the voter i.d. we had in texas before they passed the restrictive photo voter i.d. wa...

You should not be allowed to use or gun license in texas but not your student i.d.. across this country we are seeing a clamor for people to say they want democracy to work for everyone. there should be minimum standards that do not change based on your race, or your geography. >> georgia democratic senator raphael warnock said he is very encouraged by joe manchin's proposals, and told nbc news, quote, i have never been opposed to voter i.d.. and in fact, i don't know anybody who is. who believes people shouldn't have to prove that they are who they say they are. but what has happened over the...

Not cost people and not make it difficult for them to get it. if you do something, i proposed a long time ago with andrew yang and martin luther king the third, putting an i.t. photo voluntarily on a social security card, you could get anywhere. get it in the post office, won't cost anything. you could use it in state and local elections as well as federal ones. >> congressman allred, the voter i.d. provision in this bill, if it is passed into law eventually, would that override any of the voter i.d. provisions that are already existing out there, in some republican states that, for example, a...