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Of vote suppression laws enacted throughout the country in different states. >> right. >> and that really had a n negative impact on the ability of a lot of people to register and participate. one thing that is absolutely clear is the that millions of people in this election did not vote illegally. that is an absolutely bogus claim that president-elect trump has made, and a real problem that we have in the country is not that too many people are voting who shouldn't be, but thaw not enough eligible people are voting who should be. that's the issue that we have to continue to grapple with in th...

For trump. pennsylvania, the exit polls show hillary clinton up in the exit polls by 4.4%, but trump wins by 1.1. wisconsin, hillary up 3.9% in the exit polls, trump wins by 0.9. florida, hillary up, trump wins. when you're talking to people who are experts, even frank luntz was tweeting, hillary clinton's got this in the bag, i've seen the exit polls. the discrepancy between the exit polls and the vote count does raise alarms. do you see a feed to kind of audit the vote definement, or do you think there's some explanation that are. >> i'm sure the explanation is exactly what your other paneli...

What we know is we can overcome the wall of vote suppression with a higher wave of vote registration. you've got to invest, do the hard work and start now. >> speaking of which, one of your colleagues, republican state senator barry fleming in the other house has a bill to limit early voting. what do you think is going to happen with access to voting rights in georgia between now and election day? >> we're going to fight very hard to avoid any limitations. representative fleming's bill would limit municipal elections and not affect or 2014 elections. more importantly, i think we have to reme...

Up seats, picking up voters and engaging voters across the state is an incredible opportunity, and if georgia can turn blue, the rest of the deep south can follow. >> it should be noted that the dynamic here, with voter registration, particularly in the south, is not static. in the sense that boosts in black turnout tend to come with a correlated boost in white turnout. and that has been the history in a lot of southern states. >> look, that depends on the issue. right? so if you look at what happened in florida last year, what you saw was the far right wing saying, look, we've got to come in ...

>> the supreme court ruled there isn't any minority suppression any more. that's a problem that's resolved itself. >> you're laughing. you're laughing. >> this is, i don't know if this is actually a larger issue of vote suppression. it's about gun control. and a changing demographics in the state. the senator can speak to this far better than i can, but there sieges to be a strong sense of resentment of this perceived government overreaching. there have been a raft of cosmopolitan transplants coming in, and it's experienced a left ward shift. this was a strong push back. >> new york mayor bloo...