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Seniors, among low-income voters, among students, and yes, among minority voters. today, the brennan center is out with a new study of the nation's strictest new make it harder to vote laws. and what those laws might mean for all of those millions of eligible voters who don't have the documentation that the states now demand. in order to get away with putting a new legal barrier between you and your right to vote, they're supposed to help voters get free ids they'll be allowed to show at the voting place. they're supposed to be free because if you have to pay for a document you suddenly need t...

Interesting is that they're offering these free id cards to help people, you know, who don't have an id get their id, and then they can vote. but the doj says, well, 81 of texas' 254 counties don't have offices for the people who get the id. so, you know, the practical reality -- they're not going to do it. >> yeah. there's a cure provision. well, you know, you're not going to do it, hey, look, voting is a privilege. i mean, there are things you have to do to vote, and i think asking for identification to make sure you're the person that's actually casting the vote, especially texas has had in...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that's not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we're more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there's a lot of reasons. and what's interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing ...

Make sense that you could have access to check if folks are who they say they are when they go to the polls. >> absolutely. that's -- that's the foundation of our government. it's what gives individuals credibility about our process, and that's what we need to do going forward. i'm hopeful that save and the homeland security will grant our requests in the very, very near future. >> eric: what happens if they don't? >> if they don't, we'll proceed with the databases that we have. we'll proceed forward. we'll be making sure that a due process is in place. this process allows for any individual w...

Be done away with. >> sean: if you put a bounty on somebody's head, you get arrested. that is not happening. >> premeditated murder. >> nazis. they ought to be arrested. they are calling for race riots down there. >> first, the black panther party has done positive things throughout history. it doesn't mean everyone has to agree everything they say or everything they stand for. >> sean: talking about a race war. >> you don't have to agree with everything they said. they have done positive things in the african-american period and just the community period. >> what about batons at a voting plac...