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Split their votes as they see fit. here is an example of how this works. with six votes, a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates. or vote six times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chester's six board of trustees but the compromise was costly. the town spent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedures and despite efforts to target hispanics, voter turnout was only marginally impacted. >> it is money that is spent that i would rather have seen spent on streets and sidew...

Worse. i think that's the main takeaway. >> talk to me about that. it could have been a lot worse? >> the petitioners in the case, including the attorney general of arizona, wanted to gut section 2. the story actually goes back a lot farther than that. in 2013, the supreme court did away with section 5 of the voting rights act. in shelby county, the court said all of the civil rights era cases and laws that congress enacted to get rid of jim crow restrictions that required preclearance by the justice department or by federal court for changes to voting procedures in historically discriminatory...

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President signs another executive action. this time green lighting that wall along the border with mexico. he also plans to sign an order to end so-called sanctuary cities where local officials around the united states refuse to hand over undocumented immigrants. another issue that is sure to come up during today's briefing, the president's -- their refusal to back down from false claims of massive voter fraud during the 2016 election here in the united states. today the president tweeted this. i will be asking for a major investigation into voter fraud, including those registered to vote in t...