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Cut and new rescriptions were put on absentee ballots. down in florida, republicans put reskriks on early registration, banned felons from voting for five years. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like pennsylvania and wisconsin put in place strict voter id laws. pennsylvania's law was eventually struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minority in low income areas there is no doubt they were meant to help elect mitt romney as president of the united state...

Restrictions on voter registration, cut early voting hours, banned felons from voting for five years. and attempted to purge 180,000 voters from the state's voting rolls. luckily after public outrage, the voter purge failed. meanwhile, states like wisconsin put in strict photo id laws. pennsylvania's law was later struck down, but misleading signs and billboards like this one were put up to try and trick voters. these suppression efforts directly targeted minorities and low income voters, no doubt this was meant to help them vote for mitt romney. >> he is going to win the state of pennsylvania...

Watermel watermelon. you know what the supporter wrote back to him? amen. >> thanks for supporting. >> you have the head of the republican party in columbus, ohio, saying we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate african-americans. so this isn't racial coding anymore. this is just racial. >> it's funny, because it happens at the same time that something else exciting happens, that is that americans don't like being called racist, right? the fact that president george w. bush said the worst moment of his presidency was when kanye west suggested that he was racist, there's a part of...

Limitation, fellow republican doug price said, quote, we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban -- read african-american-voter turnout machine. let's be fair and reasonable, end of quote. that was shocking talk. but election officials dennis lieberman and thomas richie recognized the importance of weekend voting and decided to allow weekend voting anyway. and today, john hustard fired them for it. lieberman and richie joined us on the show last night. here is what they said when i asked if they were prepared to be fired. >> it is as i explained to my children, you know, ...

The what they are conversation on the other hand takes things one step further and uses what they did and what they said to draw conclusions about what kind of person they are i don't care what he is, but i need to hold him accountable for what he did. and that's how we need to approach those conversations about race. >> instead of focusing on what cob conservatives are, we need to keep the conversation focused on what they are doing. this realm, very obvious racial asymmetries, the first and most obvious one, an issue we are covering here. new restrictions on voting, whether through voter i.d...