affect happen sometimes and those people are often -- it is brought to their attention and they are taken of the roles but that is often not a widespread problem. there is a study out of arizona where they looked at instances voter fraud in and they used that term very largely. looking at impersonation fraud. another part of the was looking -- people notble being eligible ending up on the voting rolls but they found that out of one billion votes cast, 1000.umber was below so does happen, but is a small problem compared to the number of votes cast overall in certainly every effort should be made so that people are not accidentally signing up for something they are not eligible to sign up for. an maryland.s

a democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. listening to ms. clark speak and my mom and most of my family live in alabama and florida. took were some things that place in alabama last year where they shut down most of the mva where people could not going to even get to the building and make their vote at all. now was still alive and doing very well. she is 91-years-old, she has always wedded went you got the opportunity. but now with all these , people do not understand that 891-year-old that a 91-year-old woman brought into the world by a birthe will not have

certificate but she is still a citizen of this country. the biggest violations are the ones who are making it difficult for people not to vote. my last opinion on this is in the workforce in alabama where a their my family work, hours are shifted on voting days where they cannot get in there within the hours allotted for voting. some of my family members are also told not to vote. so when their days off are saturdays and sundays, a lot of those days were shut down, too. what is your organization looking at in these instances? guest: sure. you mentioned alabama's specifically where your family lives and there is a lawsuit ongoing in alabama right now to the photo idinst law. it does not look like we are

going to have a decision before this november but there is an ongoing lawsuit there. because as you mention, alabama's one of the states that has recently made it harder for citizens to vote despite the fact there are people without the id you need to vote in alabama. you talk about your mother and it is wonderful but she still cares so passionately about her right and responsibility to vote at 91-years-old. that is wonderful to hear. in texas we saw a lot of people exactly like her who were born in 80 plus years ago. times, particularly if they were african-american citizens they were not born in a hospital. plenty of them were born in places where hospitals would not take african-american women to give both said they were born at home with a midwife and never got the documentation they needed but they were born in the united states and those people have worked very hard to get the

id they need and still often times have come up short post up blue saw a woman in texas who a woman ine saw texas who had to mail in application for the birth get itcate and pay to printed and mailed back and that cost $42. she and her husband live on a fixed income. he is a bus driver. they live on in income of $300 a month and are feeding a family on that. they put money aside for six months in in attempt to get her birth certificate. they eventually did. the cost of voting should not be so high for people who are eligible citizens and simply want to use the same rights they using since they were 18 or 21-years-old. host: len's in richmond, indiana. in independent.

caller: hello. thank you so much into thank you to c-span for having such a great public service. i would like to speak about the federal prison system and the state prison system. a sheriff work with in jackson county, kentucky, he and i would like to let her know about something that she might that islook into ian the candidate id numbers. to make sure they have not been compromised. those candidate id numbers, back in 2014, were tied directly to unverified illegal immigrants in the federal prison system. so held not get voter id had me count. this candidate id numbers were tied, everyone of them, to unverified illegal immigrants in federal prisons.

host: this is something you have looked into? jennifer: it is not something i've looked into or heard of. again, i would really urge who have seen something like that to reach out to their local election officials because local election officials are very invested in the system and truly want to those who are eligible to vote to be able to vote and want to make sure the electoral process is secure. because that is their job. i cannot speak to that incident that i think your local election officials are eight wonderful resource if you need to ask a question of somebody or if you have firsthand experience of a concern about electoral integrity. a republican. caller: good morning. i enjoy your program.

because therethat are so many states that have so many different issues regarding ids, verification, regards to voting, my suggestion is every four years when the residential election is up for grabs that the people in each state submit certain issues, problems regarding id verification issues to be put on the ballot. and once the elections are over in the various issues from all the states are combined and put people go through them. every state has the same issue issues to that. that way all the people throughout the united states

[indiscernible] -- everybody should be able to vote. legislatively, it would take 20-40 years because every state, again, has the same issues but they are inherently different. legislatively -- in the meantime, work with your legislators. last jennifer clarke, the 30 seconds. jennifer: states actually have in each individual state. under our constitution, they are given authority and that is why it has to be decided on a state-by-state basis. that authority is blocked in by things like the voting rights act and the constitution. you cannot have qualifications that are unconstitutional or rights people's voting under federal protection such as the voting rights. that is what we're seeing now,

states have crossed the line and are going to far in restricting the ability of who can vote. host: jennifer clarke is at the brennan center. thank you so much for your time this morning. >> we invite you to watch all of the oral arguments in the issue spotlight on the 2016 election and photo rights in there and tiredly. watch on our video library at c-span.org. >> book tv is live beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern at politics and prose bookstore in washington for "race in america." a panel discussion about race relations in examining relations in the african-american community. a bureau chief and author in moderates.hite other panelists include a correspondent and author of

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