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Ever since. >> e.j. dionne, thank you so much for your time. have a nice great weekend. >> and great to be with you. thank you. coming up, karl rove finally has the answer. he knows exactly why he blew through $300 million for his billionaire buddies. you've got to hear this. and scott walker's so concerned about retirees that he want to get rid of same-day voting registration. i wonder what they think. he won't like the response. that's next. [ male announcer ] citi turns 200 this year.

Officials are intentionally purging voters with these lists. not so say election officials. louisiana secretary of state tom shedler says the accurate voter list assures elections by having accurate voting list. >> i put voting at the utmost paramount of our legal rights but you can see in business everyone does some type of file maintenance or business list maintenance and i don't see any difference in the voting registration. i think the most important thing out of everything i'm saying is this. these individuals have not voted in almost half a decade. i think people miss that. >> reporter: ...

Vote has been restricted since the 2010 election. restricting voter registration drive. disenfranchising ex-felons. there's different rationales. for voting registration it's a.c.o.r.n. for early voting it's too expensive. voter i.d. it costs too much money. you have the voter fraud. and ex-felons they don't deserve to vote. even though they paid their debt to society they shouldn't be back in the political process. if you look at all these different restrictions together what you see is a trend and the trend that you see is that the people that are most likely to be harmed by these restrictio...

Idea. >> as we come pullry voting. it's not voting id require them to do but show up at the polls like you're required to show up at the courthouse if you get a summons. you can cast a blank ballot. you don't have to vote for any particular candidate. i don't think it's the kind of thing you have to enforce with like you're going to jail. australia has mandatory voting. they get 94 to 96 participation. the biggest benefit. think about our politics right now and how much emphasis is placed on targeted turnout, sometimes the ugly side of that, suppressing the vote. we want our people coming out....

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