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There was discriminatory activities in the south that a number of states were systematically denying individuals the right to vote, and you go back into the history, you can see it plainly, actions and rules and procedures were adopted in a number of states with the specific purpose of blocking african-americans from voting. and it was just wrong and the voting rights act confronted that, and it in effect targeted certain states and required any even the most minor changes in voting procedure like moving a precinct across -- >> so how would you approach this going forward? for instance the fif...

Common problems, and joining me is bob bauer and ben ginsburg. gentlemen, you've done the tandems, campaign finance issues, but on election issues. ben, let me start with you, because this is -- where this becomes a partisan fight is on access to the ballot. you guys focused more on how the balloting is done and the voting procedure. why did you stay away from the photo i.d. issue? >> the photo i.d. issue is beyond the charge that the commission had. the reality of what we did is that bob and i have spent a lot of years on opposite sides of issues. we've done a lot of recounts together. when y...

tackle the victim. six victims dead along with the gunman. david mattingly, what is the latest? >> reporter: well, here's what we know this morning. we have a law enforcement source who is involved in the investigation telling us that the shooter was an army veteran and at one time it was believed to be a white supremacist. we know the witnesses at the temple describe him as a white male, bald, wearing a t-shirt, dark pants with april tattoo that says 9/11. all of that together, we have a local law enforcement official saying ty were approaching this as a case of domestic terrorism. ...

Statute they cited which is the voter rights act, florida is a state that requires preclearance of changes in voting procedures. it's a debatable point whether this is a change in voting procedure. but most lawyers would say because of the potential discriminatory impact it would require preclearance. even the republican election commissioners in florida say they think this is a violation of the law. using department of motor vehicle records to check against the voter polls is a very, very clumsy way, and state officials including republicans say this purge has been riddled with inaccuracies i...

pretty steady. we're at ward 1. you step inside where voters started showing up about 6:00 this morning. right now you see a few of the voters here. you haven't seen the long lines, but a steady stream of folks coming in here. this is a very busy ward. we take a look back to 2008, according to official als here, they had to call up the clerk's office and get the ballots. they got the ballots this time. perhaps they won't have to do that. overallstate wide according to the secretary of state's office, they're expecting 250,000 ballots to be cast in this highly contested republican pri...