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Back years and years, no one has been able to prove there is systemic vote fraud in u.s. elections. and we've been down this road before. in 2002, republican president george bush with his republican attorney general john ashcroft launched the voting integrity in addition initiative. after six years, the total number convicted, less than 150. a rutgers professor concluded the percentage of illegal votes was statistically zero. an as for the elected secretaries of state who actually run elections in their states? not one republican or democrat has voiced any concern about massive voter fraud in...

Co-founder of the center for election innovation and research. david, the trump team has cited your report on voter fraud in the united states, the support the president's baseless claims that millions of people illegally voted in the presidential election last year. you say the president is misinterpreting the data that you had. tell us why. >> right, i oversaw that report when i was working at pugh as the director of the elections program there and that report was just about the quality of the voter list. election official had challenges keeping up with people as they moved mostly, sometimes...

Million people voted illegally. simply no evidence of that. >> david, jeff, thanks so much. i want to bring in former missouri secretary of state jason candor. he's a democrat and a former army captain who served in afghanistan. you might remember jason from this senatorial campaign ad where he showed how quickly he could put together an ar-15 rifle while blind folded. jason was serving as missouri secretary of state where he oversaw voting on election day. i do not have an ar-15 for you to put together or blind fold. >> it's ease toy do. >> next time. you have supervised elections in missouri...

Recently it was, i feel you're in this unique position to shed light for us about what's in between these two parallel tracks we've got. it seems what's going on with these restrictions on the ability to vote, putting these new hurdles, whether test shortening, early voting, restricting voter registration, it seems clear it's being done for partisan purpose. then republicans say oh, no, it's only about voter fraud. it is about voting integrity. is it clear to you that is just bunk? just a story that's being told to cover up? >> it's crystal clear to me. you couldn't be more right in my humble ...

Partisan ship at that level was absolutely wrong. >> i feel like because of your position and where you were governor and because of how recently it was, i feel you're in this unique position to shed light for us about what's in between these two parallel tracks we've got. it seems what's going on with these restrictions on the ability to vote, putting these new hurdles, whether test shortening, early voting, restricting voter registration, it seems clear it's being done for partisan purpose. then republicans say oh, no, it's only about voter fraud. it is about voting integrity. is it clear to...