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The trusting wood-be voter shows up at the polls thinking he or she registered but the system ate it. after the deadline, the clerks were facing a back log of 35,000 new registrations, many of them from the last day that you could register. in colorado, this is just the view from here, but your election system looks like kind of a mess they're year. and it's not like we didn't see it coming. republican secretary of state scott gessler started making headlines last year when he tried to stop mailing ballots to every voter who normally gets one. last no he again ordered the clerk in denver to no...

He called them emergency rules. rules he needed right away before the november election. rules he could not wait for any elected legislature to give him. the new rules would let him conduct a last minute purge of iowa's voter rules. it gave him authority to kick voters that he considers suspect off the rollings. to first them to proof that they are rightfully registered and if they don't proof it, onus is on them, no voting. the second emergency rule made it easier for people to alodge that other people are on the roles when they weren't supposed to be. that's how the iowa secretary of state w...

There have been no real votes of voter fraud in iowa, at all. let alone the kind that would be hampered by blocking people from voting in this particular new way he wanted to block people from voting. after that he prom i alsoed he was turning over every stone to find some fraud. when he didn't find any, he brought in an agent from the agent of criminal investigation to help him look at the cost of tax fairs up to $250,000. he gave up looking for the legislature. in late july he personally ordered a new set of rules about voting in iowa. he called them emergency rules. rules he needed right aw...

Wisconsin, michigan or pennsylvania. but update. wisconsin, you are now getting added back to the list. in addition to the eight states i named, the romney campaign says it will also carpet bomb wisconsin, home of paul ryan. now we have a playing field of nine states with wisconsin included. nine states we define as the pl playing field. presidential races are always fought this way in a few states. right now this year it appears to be nine states. but in most of these nine states officials have acted to try to make voting harder. passing laws that require you e show documentation you never ha...

Eyebrows? we have just the lawyer for you. we'll fly him in. making voting harder has become kind of an industry if you know where to look. for republicans it's become a real political priority. in iowa republican secretary of state matt shultz has declared emergency rules in iowa to make voting harder. he says he simply must do this before november. it's an emergency. if the court allows the rules to stand, secretary of state matt shultz will begin a purge of iowa voter rules. the new emergency rules would allow anyone to allege that someone else was committing voter fraud. and you can make t...