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>> the industry is witnessing an part of du exploits and e.u. action. the previous prime minister said he would make sure the industry's voice is heard and we would get in negotiations. what is this prime minister doing to ensure they maintain access to the e.u. and a level playing field in the face of protectionist and then. >> the honorable gentleman i'm very pleased to welcome him the industry that he refers to. his constituency of was the non-skinning history and tradition. what are we doing us to go through negotiations and the european union will be ensuring this country is the best possible to trade with them operate within the european market. >> thank you pigmented constituents have contacted me
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to express concern about anti-semitism. i'm sure i remember this house can agree we will show zero tolerance. does the prime minister agree we must ensure that all parties do not allow a situation to arise where it appears that environment is created where anti-semitism is created. >> yes, i absolutely agree with my honorable friend at this how should send a very clear message that we will not tolerate anti-feminism. i have been concerned about the rice they seem in anti-semitism in this country and we should very clearly ensure that those incidences are properly investigated and dealt with and get the clear message we will not tolerate it. there does have to be every political party in this chamber. i asked the right honorable gentleman, given the report of the select committee of this
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house about anti-semitism in the christian anti-semitism, he needs to think carefully about the environment being created. >> we are not just one month from the start of the new inquest into the birmingham bombings. the westminster police set aside 1 million-pound but today the bereaved families have no legal fun days. prime minister, this is a shameful state of affairs. please intervene and show the birmingham sam is the same compassion we've shown to the hillsboro families. >> the right honorable gentleman may be aware that the birmingham families have been encouraged and have applied for the exceptional fund that was at the time what happened after after the bombing which to place. the secretary has made clear her expectation of funding will be provided. we are waiting for a decision
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from the big lake fun and we are hopeful it will be a positive one. >> why would they could deliver a catholic and half the time that half the cost in a fraction of the environment. >> prime minister. >> and i assure my right honorable friend a decision has been taken on airport expansion in the southeast. she will know from her previous background the davis commission said the airport in the south they should be expanded or the government accepted the argument today they identified three sites all of which they said would be credible and deliver blood governments would make a decision this month. >> we finished the question from general jones. >> thank you, mr. speaker. coniferous about think the prime minister and leader of the opposition and other members for their comments about the disaster and the resilient shown by the people. on friday morning at 9:15 the
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people in the community along with communities across wales with silence. could asked whether she would support what is marked the disaster affected in communities across the world and across the u.k. as well. >> i say to the honorable gentleman, i know the secretary of state be attending the memorial and the constituency on friday. it's appropriate we all mark and show our respect for those who lost their lives in the same in the families who suffered as a result of the tragedy that took place 50 years ago. it was a terrible tragedy not just for individual families but for a whole community and it gets right we recognize the market.
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and allegations of voter fraud. in our next segment here, we're going to look at the issue of the integrity of voting systems, the charges of voting fraud across the country and more. we're going to hear from spencer overton, with george washington university in the author of stealing democracy, the new politics of voter suppression and. you. i will start with how widespread you think of voting fraud is? -- moreore a question important question is why do we have such an archaic and rickety system? it has been 16 years as we got the big wake-up call of bush v gore, where the entire election
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was decided by 537 votes. the pew research center says there are 4 million dead or ineligible voters on our registration rolls, one out of eight voter registrations in this country contain valid -- invalid information. i don't care if you're a democrat, republican, vegetarian, libertarian, that should can turn us area -- that should concern us. the problem with election machines mean there is the potential for fraud, and it increase with the potential that is undetected. -- do youe potential think it has spread? do you think there is a greater potential than when we had the wake-up call of push the gore? stepshink there have been taken to clean up absentee laws. are preventative
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measures that can and do work. i think people are hanging or attention. -- are paying more attention. , people inelection any party sometimes get tempted. inc. can happen at the last minute. -- things can happen in the last minute. the senateof that race, 1200 felons voted illegally in that election. election, where things like that happened, it can be either accident or intent. >> how widespread you think it is spencer? notot widespread, at least voter impersonation. i agree with my republican senators that the system is not
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rigged. -- theot voter purser threat is not voter impersonation, it is issues like gerrymandering, barriers that prevent eligible voters from casting a ballot. those are restrictions, those where politicians are manipulating rules to choose voters, as opposed to voters be able to choose politicians. >> all elections are run at a state level. how does a federal government, how does a federal system straighten things out across 50 states and the district of columbia? >> we had a very good these of legislation in 2002 after florida. chris dodd at a republican from a missouri authored the legislation. it turned out to be pretty good. an expanded voting opportunities, but also said the federal government will give
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states money to update their voting systems, it should also make sure the voter registration rolls are accurate. one of the sad things about the obama administration has been starting in 2009, they suspended all lawsuits and all enforcement measures to try to get the states to clean up their voter registration rolls. that prevents her over to do not challenge the pew registration findings. problem. potential to it, to pay attention because regardless of party, we want accurate voter rolls. this notion of voter fraud, there are 31 documented cases of voter fraud since 2000 out of the one billion votes that happen cast. you are more likely to be struck by lightning than to commit voter fraud. the justice department did a five-year investigation.
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they were not able to bring a conviction of one person in terms of voter impersonation. it is a very narrow issue. there are much bigger problems. >> the headline of the nation says that voter suppression is a much bigger problem than voter fraud. election lies distract from the real threat to american democracy. what is voter suppression, professor overton? >> that was a great story by ari berman. ari finds that many voters who are excluded who are eligible voters are results of restrictive attempts justified by forbidding fraud. in north carolina, they found that 2300 eligible voters were prevented from casting a ballot,
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even though there had been only two cases of voter impersonation since 2002 great -- 2002. we're talking about 13,000 eligible voters big alluded -- being excluded. the stateout all of voting laws? have they contributed to help more people vote? >> in all of the states where mr. overton says that there has been voter suppression, minority turnout has gone up, and it has gone up when barack obama is on the ballot, it has gone up when it is often ballot. actual cases of people who have ,een prevented from voted sometimes they can't even find a plaintiff who actually is a real live human being who has had their votes suppressed. the real question here is, if
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you don't look for something, you're not going to write it. the statistics that mr. overton mentions our federal statistics. prosecutions are state and local. in new york city, the department of education's -- of investigations sent out 63 investigators to say they could who with names of people were dead, who would move out of state or were felons. they succeeded 61 out of 63 times. there are only two cases in which they failed. one was they were simply directed to another precinct. the other was the woman looked i can't let you vote, you are voting in the name of my son. they demanded the local prosecutor prosecute the election investigators for impersonating people, even
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though they are on official government agency. if you don't look for these cases, you're not going to find them. i would like to suggest, i don't see professor overton or his allies going to the states and saying that we should address absentee ballot fraud. john talked about a lack of cases. i was actually thinking about wisconsin, where there are cases of people who did not have id, who moved to wisconsin, did not have id, brought it proof of residency, brought a drivers license to the dmv. they were not given a voter id. i have several other cases that are like that. in wisconsin, the court said the state discriminated with almost surgical precision against people of color.
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we have six cases recently where they have struck down, where federal courts have struck down these recent laws that are allegedly intended to progress rod that in fact exclude voters, many of them minorities. journal,'s washington live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. ,onday morning, giant dining professor lake forest university, talks about why north carolina is a battleground state, and voting voter enthusiasm for presidential candidates. then dallas woodhouse on the political makeup of the state, and what that means for republicans in the presidential, senate, and governors races. pierce, on north carolina as a bout of state. and hillary clinton's chances of winning there.
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