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>> in terms of the some of what we are seeing with the students and the suppression of their right to vote, i'm thinking specifically about the case, the young man, matravius king, elizabeth, on the east coast of north carolina. that seems to me tactics used against students there seem blatantly unconstitutional. the supreme court says students have the right to vote where they two to school, but republicans are systemically challenging that now. should we expect there's going to be a big legal fight over these matters in north carolina? >> i think that's one more legal fight. we already have ...

Significant group of people who are mostly voting democrat. so this is a very blatant and obvious way to suppress the vote of those who would not keep them in office. >> in terms of the some of what we are seeing with the students and the suppression of their right to vote, i'm thinking specifically about the case, the young man, matravius king, at elizabeth city. that historically black college on the east coast of north carolina. that seems to me tactics used against students there seem blatantly unconstitutional. the supreme court says students have the right to vote where they two to schoo...

They have moved the voting site which was very early voting on the campus, and consolidated all of them into one precinct which means that all of those students who were voting on the campus in early voting, all the staff, all the faculty and all the townspeople will now be in one voting site. and, of course, that's really going to suppress it. i'm almost positive they are going to do this all throughout the states so what happens is every college town, and we have 17 universities in about 35 private colleges, they will challenge that now. they will take away those early voting sites where all...

The campus, and consolidated all of them into one precinct which means that all of those students who were voting on the campus in early voting, all the staff, all the faculty and all the townspeople will now be in one voting site. and, of course, that's really going to suppress it. i'm almost positive they are going to do this all throughout the states so what happens is every college town, and we have 17 universities in about 35 private colleges, they will challenge that now. they will take away those early voting sites where all the students and faculty and staff voted and they vote high qu...

Area. they tried to change the way they conduct elections in this district. they tried to cut the number of polling places in this district from 84 polling places down to 12. and the list of 12 proposed new polling places had one very notable feature. the new list made if really easy to vote if you were a white person and really hard to vote if you were not a white person. look, the site with the smallest proportion of minority voters, so the whitest voting site was set up to serve 6,500 voters. the most heavily minority site serves over 67,000 voters. the big new election idea in this electio...