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Guys navigated some of the trick kwa -- tricky things. and photo i.d. also will be a big fight? >> i don't know if we punted anything. >> fair enough. >> i think we took on the charge given, and we tried to provide really data-based solutions that could affect the voting experience. >> can i welcome zachary -- >> i was going to say, you have a new title. you're a grandfather. >> the best title in the world. >> there it is. congratulations. >> better than co-chairman. >> a grandson, so the ginsburg lives on. >> and i had a grandson first, samuel, and ben's trying to be very competitive. >> he i...

It seems everybody should be able to show up and vote in 30 minutes to matter where they are. how realistic is that for the next election? >> our expectations believe these recommendations to have immediate effects. we would like to see them have some impact in 2014. more impact in 2016. there is no reason to believe this can't happen quickly. there are steps to be taken and having difficulties that significantly shorten lines and address other frustrations. the report addresses language minority voters, disabilities, military voters and we made recommendations in all those areas to improve th...

Problems that affect the voting experience and they are identifiable and they are solvable. we heard that throughout the country wherever we went in public hearings, fact finding. so we've drawn up some recommendations that we believe will have broad bipartisan support just as our report is a unanimous bipartisan report and will enable voters currently facing the obstacles to be relieved of them. it includes lines and a variety other of the obstacles that the president asked to examine. >> one state in particular i want to point to, florida, where i did a lot of touring with my civil rights gr...

From last month's state of the union address that i thought probably would not come to pass because it involved republican participation, i thought that's never going to happen. turns out, it's going to happen. so tonight i'm announcing a nonpartisan commission to improve the voting experience in america. and it definitely needs improvement. i'm asking two longtime experts in the field, who, bring the way, recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for governor romney's campaign, to lead it. we can fix this. and we will. the american people demand it and so does our democracy. >>...

Accomplish that this time. but after mitt romney lost, republicans in the states started in again with renewed vigor. they are not giving this thing up. the republican lawyer who will now co-chair the president's bipartisan commission to, quote, improve the voting experience, ben ginsburg, he spent last year advising the romney campaign, including the romney campaign in its role in the state-by-state fights over how hard republicans in those states could make to it vote in this country. when the obama campaign sued over ohio republicans cutting early voting, it was mr. ginsburg and the romney ...