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Far. we just had over flow of crowds here in south carolina. we had about 12 or 14 i think events across the nation yesterday. and we've got all of the african-american -- in universities, fraternities and sororities. we're going to counter the vote. we're going into these voting places and we're going have our presence there on election day. we're not going to be intimidated by these people who feel that their presence is going to do something to dissuade the african-american voters. we're going to stand up to them and we're going to make sure that everybody who is eligible cast a vote. >> si...

But we do know that people are organizing to make it harder to vote and it's a fact that african-americans, students, young people, elderly americans, veterans, all of these laws will make it harder for them to vote. we should be expanding access and participation. and we will have voters' backs before and on election day. >> steven n that same "new york times" article i quoted a little bit earlier, the president of true the vote was saying that they had reports of buses carrying hundreds of people to voting places, for example, during wisconsin's recall election and that they were being dropp...

The ballot boxes. what they informed me to was that this russian election where the ballot box stuffing was really only about 7% more than the actual votes, that's not so bad, is an improvement from the last election where it was well in access of that. >> it's only because they ran out of paper at the voting places. >> reportedly, they did say they were making an effort so it wouldn't be too obvious. the thing i love, the initial results, his opponent got one vote. so he got 107% and he got one vote. >> that's a way to make it less obvious. by giving him the one vote. >> but they said they ar...

>> yes, the federal courts are generally reluctant to overturn a state law that has to do with management of some function of state government. years ago these primaries were run by the parties not by the government and the parties paid the state, they rented the state, they rented the state's voting machines and they rented the state's voting places. now these primaries are run by the government. why that happened is a function of history and money but the fact that they are run by the government means these are government regulations, not political party rules. and the courts are reluctant t...

>> yes, the federal courts are generally reluctant to overturn a state law that has to do with management of some function of state government. years ago these primaries were run by the parties not by the government and the parties paid the state, they rented the state, they rented the state's voting machines and they rented the state's voting places. now these primaries are run by the government. why that happened is a function of history and money but the fact that they are run by the government means these are government regulations, not political party rules. and the courts are reluctant t...