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Now in setting the commission up this way and announcing it this way, the president is clearly trying to turn fixing our national problem with voting into a bipartisan effort. he is trying to proceed here as if a story like desiline victor's pulls on everybody's heartstrings equally, democrat and republican. but what happened to desiline victor when she tried to vote this year was not an accident, it was on purpose. it was policy. florida republicans took overt steps to make voting lines longer in florida and to make voting harder. to make registering to vote harder even. governor rick scott s...

Turning to politics and a debate over fixing our election system. extra long lines, delays, frustrated voters put the state of florida. joining me now is the supervisor of elections for leon county florida. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure, craig. >> going to call your attention to the "new york times" story that i'm sure you saw. >> yes. >> florida has the nation's longest voting lines. last november it took people on average 45 minutes to vote. some folks reported waiting in line for up to three hours in the sunshine state. what happened? >> well, what happened was that in 2010 the repu...

Polls especially in red states cost hundreds of thousands of votes in november. on average, blacks and hispanics had to wait twice as long as whites to cast their ballots. in the state of florida, the longest voting lines in the country were too much to bear for some voters. 200,000 voters in florida say they gave up in frustration and didn't cast their ballots. but republicans are still at it. today in virginia the republican-controlled house of representatives passed a bill limiting voter i.d.s allowed at the polls. this is outrageous. but democrats are fighting back. already democratic lawm...

Not accommodating all voters led to record long lines on election day. in the state of florida, there were reports of people waiting in line as long as seven hours to vote. these voter suppression tactics must stop, and president obama said he wants action on it. >> whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very, very long time, by the way we have to fix that. >> in the wake of all of this, california senator barbara boxer introduced the line act. it would require an election commission to set new national standards by january 1st, 2014. this commission would decide the...

Contort the voting process to accommodate urban red african-american voter turnout machine. not accommodating all voters led to record long lines on election day. in the state of florida, there were reports of people waiting in line as long as seven hours to vote. these voter suppression tactics must stop, and president obama said he wants action on it. >> whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very, very long time, by the way we have to fix that. >> in the wake of all of this, california senator barbara boxer introduced the line act. it would require an election com...