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Vote. do you believe it? republicans in wisconsin passed a new law, drastically reducing early voting in that state. it would eliminate weekend voting entirely and restrict voting on weekdays to no later than 7:00 p.m. the bill would limit the total hours of early voting a week to 45. the goal, the bill sponsor's say is to make statewide standards uniform. but critic says the goal is to help republicans by limiting the ability of poor minority voters to cast ballots. state senator lena taylor passionately buicked colleagues on the senate floor out there in madison, telling them they should be ...

They want to restrict early voting in a way that's never happened before, including, as you mentioned, ending weekend voting. we need more access to the ballot box, not less. >> and how much of this is specifically about governor walker's re-election, one of the tea party governors elected in the big sweep in 2010 and who now is going to have a harder time, if democrats are really focused? how much do you think this is really specifically about his campaign? >> well, i think it's a huge part of that. you know, we know that if, you know, if it's a fair fight, governor walker's party does tend n...

They should use them to vote. there is a segment of the population that doesn't have i.d.s and happen to be minorities and old. >> by the way, all those things that you said making it harder for people to vote as far as by, you know, ending early voting or ending weekend voting, i think we're so far down the road there we shouldn't be more restrictiontive but my question went to an i.d. >> yeah. >> by the way, you said something and i would like to see some studies on it because i've seen others that suggest there's not a huge difference between minorities and whites that would be affected by ...

Clerks could offer for voting. the bill would prevent workers who are unable to cast a vote in normal workday hours from voting. it would also end weekend voting, putting a stop to the sole to the polls effort which churches have adopted to get people to the polls. keeping a close eye on that is mike brown, deputy director of one wisconsin now. nice to see you this morning. >> thank you so much for having me here today, melissa. >> this is complicated, right, because it is not ending early voting altogether, but standardizing it, an standardizing it in a way that brings down the available hour...

Closed, they were told they could not vote. and i've giving and you few examples. we don't have all day. so we have to be careful because feeling that things have been reso solved because of challenges in court, but there will be on the ground a in an begans that will take place. >> and this goes back to early vote. because if you're stopped on election day and you get intimidated or shut down, game over. when you have the early vote, not only does it let a wider array of people participate including people with odd work schedules or have a hard work time on just tuesday, but it also gives you...