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To vote, or the republican worries about who's allowed to vote and how you prove you're allowed to vote. early voting doesn't invoke any of those concerns at all. it's about when you turn up. right? and people like having more options about when to vote than just election day. by 2012, by the next presidential election in ohio, fully a third of the people who voted in that election in 2012 voted early. people like it, it's convenient to be able to vote early. but that almost didn't happen in 2012 because smooth convenient voting processes do have the nasty side effect of making voting kind of ...

System is voting is still based upon an 18th century model where people identified with their state more than they did their nation. and so in 1787, i would be a new jersey an, not so much an american. it is now 2014 and very few people identify with their state over and against their country. we are americans, we have no american system of voting, we have states systems of voting processes and this reports gets at that, but it doesn't really finish the discussion in terms of how to really repair that breach. >> what i'm hearing from you, getting month, making our voting system more modern, ef...

Jersey and then fly to florida and vote. who is going to make this happen, and at the core of this discussion, chris, it's the same issue that's at the core of the voting rights act discussion. that is states rights, our system is voting is still based upon an 18th century model where people identified with their state more than they did their nation. and so in 1787, i would be a new jersey an, not so much an american. it is now 2014 and very few people identify with their state over and against their country. we are americans, we have no american system of voting, we have states systems of vo...

Suggested the civil rights case was going to be brought against george zimmerman, that that is -- this is another clue that they are not going to do it. >> well, but, you're saying that with -- but have you seen the voting processes in texas? i have. they are just absolutely -- >> i have never been a voter in texas. i have been to texas. >> i know you have. >> a lot. i think it's a pretty diverse state and i think what's interesting here too is that the supreme court spoke. the congressional relations are so bad between the administration and congress that they can't figure out a way to get pe...

Let's switch to today's voting processes. under these photo id lays, you now have to get a birthday certificate, usually a certified one with a raised seal. that's $10 to $25. you have to get to the motor vehicle office and get your official state id, the driver's license or state id in which case you're paying another $20 to $35. you're paying a price, a dollar figure, to be able to participate in the electoral process. it's indeed a poll tax. >> e.j. dionne, the pennsylvania voter rights case could become a national test case. the plaintiff is a great grandmother whose purse was stolen. she'...