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Where they are being asked to fill out additional papers which will lengthen the wait for voting and discourage students from voting. i'm thankful i can use my campaign to highlight this. there are so many women of color fighting for voting rights and we can shine a light on what's happening in waller county gives me a little bit of encouragement. i think big picture, we're going to have to continue to negotiate with waller county, with the county judge, to get them to reverse their decision. one thing you didn't note, rachel, they just announced this decision two weeks before the close of v...

Delivering a letter would end up being kept in custody for two hours and they put their hands on jacob, they wouldn't let him go. they threatened to hold him for multiple days. i was horrified that they would do this to someone for the simple act of delivering a letter. >> and what's the status of the students who are the subject of that letter? i ran through a little bit of the history of prairie view a&m. honestly, i could do a week long series about that history because it is such an important thing in american civil rights and what those students have been up against, what they have fought...

Federal elections. then he sends those people and those addresses this letter. it explains how his group, the voter integrity project has determined they may be inactive, urges them to re-register to vote or face possible challenges of their voting status. if the letter comes back like this one, return to sender, he uses it as evidence for the board of elections to begin the county's process of removing that voter from the rolls. he claims to have successfully struck more than 6,000 inactive voters since he began this project several years ago. 3,000, he says he's struck just this election cyc...

How he does becomes part of this federal lawsuit. he pain stakingly combs board love election records. he looks for the thousands of names and addresses of people he says are inaccurate, found not to have voted in two or more federal elections. then he sends those people and those addresses this letter. it explains how his group, the voter integrity project has determined they may be inactive, urges them to re-register to vote or face possible challenges of their voting status. if the letter comes back like this one, return to sender, he uses it as evidence for the board of elections to begin ...

Link up to a national data base. and they are looking to collect 400 data elements on our children. it's based on a p-20 model. meaning they want to track the kids from preking all the way through age 20. >> through age 20? >> yes. it's a little over the top. they want to keep track of their after school activities. they want it know our voting status. >> that's horrifying. so i know a lot of our viewers are parents and a lot of them have real concerns about common core and some questions, too. what can they do to find out more to get involved. is there any recourse for citizens against the ed...