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>> black voters tend to not drive at the same rate as white voters so there's a higher percentage of african-americans who do not have drivers licenses and that's why we always seek to actually have additional forms of voting id able to be presented at the voting polls and the other thing, they allow guns, gun owners to present their guns and cars to vote and get they won't allow students to prevent from accusing their student id card so you've got a problem in texas, the problem with texas is historically it's been racist and continues to this day. dan: you just basically credited the entire ...

Signature match. they didn't want any voting i.d. until about two weeks ago when they realized even their base believes in voter i.d. >> pete: well, we know why. >> it's not the for the people act. it's the corrupt act. >> pete: of course, we know they want to pass it so later on we can find out what's in it of course, in the mean time they're characterizing it as the most critical threat to our democracy, which they always mischaracterize since the civil war, mark. now, you write about history. you understand the constitution. with these kind of characterizations do they really believe it is ...

That's not the way these fights are going everywhere. just yesterday, the united states supreme court upheld a pair of voting restrictions in arizona. one of those restrictions calls to nullify anyone's vote that was accidentally cast in the wrong precinct. the other blocks anyone but a relative from helping you turn into your ballot. the legal challenge to those restrictions argued they affected voters of color and violated the voting rights act. the supreme court put those voting restrictions back on the books in arizona. the conservative majority on the court argued that any unequal impact ...

Sticking point was voter i.d. democrats said we're wig to give on voter i.d. in exchange for expansion of early voting, banning partial redistricting which i think everybody agrees with if you're a republican in new york you're probably against partisan redistricting or a republican in illinois, probably against redistricting and also making election day a holiday. if you can make an election day holiday everybody will have the ability to vote. >> another shop day. >> yes. >> you don't have to work. >> and we have to work. >> holiday special. but i do think -- this is what you call meet in the...

View of. >> so, scott, what is the status of this bill particularly after stacey abrams came forward and said, yeah. this bill has a lot of things that she likes and would support? >> so you have a compromise bill here but it is among senator manchin's own party. let's go through the key tenets. election day would be a federal holiday. it ends partisan gerrymandering. guarantees 15 days consecutively of early voting and requires some form of voting i.d. or an alternative. that is a way to cast the net that captures all democrats but the stacey abrams endorsement, the bill getting firm and almo...