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To low-cost, high-speed internet at home. i'm trying to do some homework here. so they're ready for anything. growing concerns of voter suppression in critical mid term races could be decided by the thinnest of margins. on monday, a group of african-american senior citizens in georgia was forced off a bus taking them to a polling site for early voting. county officials said the event was a politically prohibited activity. earlier the organizer of that event joined our colleagues at "a.m. joy." >> what we've been seeing is the slow roll around voter suppression. we've been talking to people, ...

Order of someone's name is correct. is not a reason to keep people off the voting rolls. and look, we know as you've just said that the majority of people who are being impacted by this new exact match rule are people of color, specifically african-americans. people who may have issues around having the requisite i.d. that states like georgia are requiring. again, alex, this goes against the grain of what a democracy should stand for and it's not at all what other nations do. other nations try to insure that for instance, information in their databases share so that voters, names, addresses an...

Polling site in a tux, everybody loves you. >> i think in 2016 the three states that hillary lost that everyone thinks she should have won and, you know, i think she should have won, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania, did not have early voting. >> no. >> something like -- and nevada, which we won as we thought we would, did have early voting. so to the point about they have all these -- their little tricks and devilishness in getting people to not vote -- >> north carolina. souls to the polls was working and because it was working so well and people were really actually participating in the...

Than white voters were told, incorrectly, that their names had been purged from the voting rolls. now, these laws are often pushed by republican state legislators, why? well, according to some of them, it helps them win elections. here's wisconsin's republican attorney general after the 2016 election. >> how many of your listeners really, honestly are sure that senator johnson was going to win reelection or president trump was going to win wisconsin if we didn't have voter i.d. to keep wisconsin's elections clean and honest. >> and now, listen to georgia's secretary of state, republican gubern...

Kamala harris, cory booker that would be your set-up for the presidential in 2020. here in georgia and florida you've got a couple of basically progressive democrats, african american, stacy abrams in georgia, andrew gillum in florida who had denied that he's a socialist running against two candidates who have aligned themselves with donald trump. so it's a very conservative candidate running against the progressive. the other thing that i should point out, stacy abrams, for example, in georgia has spent 5 years enlisting black minority women, younger voters, getting them on voting rolls, a te...