he had campaign ads that took the fandom to kind of a self satire. >> ron loves playing with the kids. >> build the wall. >> he reads stories. >> then mr. trump said, you're fired. i love that part. >> he's teaching madison to talk. >> make america great again. >> eye of the beholder. some people say he was making fun of himself, but look at the mimicry. >> anyone here would do it. judges are a priority. >> honestly, we have businesses that have been locked down and lives destroyed for over a year. >> many ballots. they put them all together and dump them. >> in china. >> why would we want so many important things -- >> can we take them? >> to us be at the whim of china? >> this is the deal with trump's republican party and everyone trying to be him. as drake once said, a lot of people came up on a style that i made up, but if everyone looks

like me, who should i be afraid of? that's it for us. "the reidout" starts right now. good evening, everybody. welcome to a special edition of "the reidout," live from beautiful orlando, florida. we're just five days away from the final voting day of the midterm elections. and baby, the stakes could not be any higher. a point that both president joe biden and former president barack obama have been making every single day. >> when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it's not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we take this for granted, and we can't. >> there are candidates running

for every level of office in america, for governor, congress, attorney general, secretary of state, who won't commit, they will not commit to accepting the results of an election that they're running in. this is a pat to chaos in america. it's unprecedented. it's unlawful. and it's un-american. >> tonight, we'll spend the hour looking at florida. once the perennial swing state and key to the 2000 election. it's now effectively the home base of the maga movement, led by wanna be president and current governor ron desantis. and failed presidential candidate and current senator marco rubio. now in the past two years, this state has led the country when incomes to banning books, banning thought, banning history, banning speech, and restricting access to voting for former felons. which happens to be a vestige of the jim crow era.

at stake in this state is if desantis will maintain his stranglehold and use it for his 2024 presidential ambitions. if republicans can pick up five seats in florida alone, they can retake control of the house. and whether or not the person representing florida in the united states senate will help pass a nationwide ban on abortion. but oh, that's not all. florida voters will also decide who represents their interests on county commissions and school boards. they will choose whether to retain the state supreme court justices and whether to eliminate a group that can revise florida's constitution and more. like i said, the stakes could not be higher. we're going to be joined momentarily by congresswoman and senate candidate val demings and she's going to be here in a bit. but right now, i'm joined by former governor and current congressman charlie crist who is the democratic nominee for florida governor. the once and perhaps future governor. how are you? >> god bless you. i'm doing great.

>> you were my governor when i was here. >> it was an honor. >> you were a republican governor at the time. and the reason you didn't fit in is you're a nice guy. i don't think i'm hurting your feelings by telling you, you're a nice man. i have seen you with little kids getting down on the floor to talk to them. i have seen you be kind to people who are voters and let them stay in line in 2008 when your party wanted you to shut the lines down and not let them vote. teachers, like, no, you shouldn't lose your pension. it was easier for you to win when you were a republican, wasn't it, because republicans, they don't require as much, they follow the leader. >> they do. >> i wonder if maybe -- maybe you're too nice to be governor of florida. >> i don't think that's true. >> are you concerned that over the time since you have been governor the state has gotten meaner and maybe you are at this point too nice to be governor? >> i'm certainly not too nice, but i think too nice is what we need now more than ever.

i think that people are yearning for more civility, more decency among the parties and among all americans and i'm confident that's going to carry the day for us. and women are going to be a huge factor, as we all know, in this race. and the right to choose i'm a champion of. desantis already signed a bill restricting a woman's right to choose. it's so bad it doesn't even include exceptions for rape or incest, which is shocking. >> you brought this up during the debate with the current governor. i mean, a seventh grader, a kid, a child was forced to leave this state to get the procedure because the child had been raped. and in this state, there are no exceptions. >> no exceptions. >> is that message getting through to voters, that the stakes here are whether or not a child, like that child, will get mercy and be able to get health care? is that message coming through loud and clear enough? >> i believe it is. there's only two people left who are going to be the next

governor of florida. myself or ron desantis. if ron desantis gets re-elected, a woman's right to choose will be gone in the state of florida. they won't have that respect, they won't have that decision to make anymore. if on the other hand i get elected five days from today, a woman's right to choose, i will sign an executive order on thefirst day of my administration to protect a woman's right to choose. >> the other thing, i spent a lot of time on the radio this morning, calling in to radio stations and encouraging people to vote. i called a lot of black and caribbean stations. the message i got back from the hosts was alarming to me. the lines in communities of color are short. people are not lining up. people are not coming out and voting in the kind of numbers you're seeing in places like georgia, in places like pennsylvania. and one of the things that a friend of mine who is down here works in politics told me, she's hearing a lot of fear among black voters that even if they have never done anything wrong, never had any kind of a criminal record or anything, the fear has been put into them by those

arrests of black voters who had former felonies, thought they could vote, didn't know they weren't eligible, voted, and ron desantis's election police arrested them and they were prosecuted. that worked. that's a jim crow tactic, and it's worked on a lot of people. glit rr horrible. >> how can you reassure voters and how do you get the communities you need to win to actually come out and vote? >> do exactly what you and i are doing now. encourage them to do that. exercise that right. i served with john lewis. great civil rights icon from georgia, god rest his soul. he used to always tell me and anyone who would listen, your right to vote is precious. in fact, it's so precious, it's probably sacred. it's very sacred in this election and very important in this race in florida. all our floridians have to get out and vote. we have val demings as our candidate for the u.s. senate. god bless her. wonderful. going to really help with that minority turnout, which you indicated is so vitally important. i'm confident they're going to

get out. i'm excited about the race. you know, i'm concerned about the future of my state, if ron desantis were to get re-elected, but these people are not going to let that happen. >> let me ask you about ron desantis because i remember, i remember in 2018, i was covering the florida race at that time. he was running against andrew gillum, who is a unique political talent. wonderful guy. a wonderful human being. and a very kind, good man. he said, let's not monkey it up. about his black opponent. >> unbelievable. >> and that hurt him enough that that race was very tight. >> razor thin. >> very tight. he won by only 39,000 votes. when you look at the number of people who stayed home, though, despite andrew gillum being a fantastic candidate, despite ron desantis being a cruel man and showing that he thought it was funny to make a racial joke, despite that, the people who didn't turn out, hundreds of thousands of people, could have make the difference in that margin. what message can you give to people who have not made the

connection between voting, right, and getting the government that they deserve? >> well, just don't let that happen again. we should have learned from what happened in 2018. if just a few more people would have gotten out, we would have had a democratic governor for the first time in like 25 years in florida. this time, don't make that mistake again. make sure that all your friends get out to vote, all your family members. just vote, vote, vote. as barack obama, president obama, i should say, used to always say, when we vote, we win. so we have to take that to heart. >> we are here in orlando, and of course, disney is predominant here and universal, et cetera. ron desantis went after disney. >> he did. >> it's going to cost this state about $2 billion. and that's going to be passed along to the taxpayers here because someone has to pay the bills. if disney is not paying them, somebody has to pay them. it's the taxpayers. what would you do about that as governor? is it possible to fix what he has done, which he did out of spite? >> absolutely it's possible.

what we need to do is protect walt disney's districting that they got when they were lured to florida. they're the largest employer in the state, joy, and what they bring to tourism, all around the state of florida as well, is hard to really estimate and get a handle on it. but this governor, desantis, went after them, why? because they wanted to protect their right to free speech and talk about a bill they disagreed with him on. and for that, they get condemned and punished by the governor. that's not a free state. that's not what the right thing is. who the hell goes after mickey mouse in florida? >> he was boog too nice to the lgbtq community. lee didn't like their content. there's also the issue of the venezuelan migrants which we're now finding out the firms of the people who were coordinating that, there might have been benefit around ron desantis. there's a history of that, rick scott once said he was going to drug test everyone who works in the state of florida and his wife worked for the drug clinics.

there's a sense of government for personal benefit and in this case cruelty for political and private benefit. what would you do as governor to fix that situation? because those folks are already gone, and now the state legislature has more money available to continue deporting people from other states. >> your point is excellent and well made. what you do to stop it is elect charlie crist as governor and that will never happen again. because we won't treat people like they're cattle and ship them off, these hispanic people who simply wanted to come to a place to have an opportunity to have freedom and seek it, and governor desantis uses them as human pawns in a political game, a scheme really that is in humane and uncaring. one of the people on the planes was a 1-year-old baby. another one was a pregnant woman. who does that? who is that cruel and that laser focused on their own political future instead of the betterment of our fellow men and fellow wim snn we have a governor who fits that mold right now. that's why we need to change,

floridians deserve better. >> we're out of time, but you asked him on the debate stage if he's going to stay through a full term and not run for president. he's sort of gone a little back and forth. he said i wouldn't run against donald trump. do you believe him that he would serve a full term? >> i don't. i think if he were to get re-elected, he would be out running for president right away. but we take care of business on the 8th, and that show is over. we don't have to worry about it. >> former governor, congressman, potential future governor charlie crist. thank you very much. really appreciate you. >> coming up next, congresswoman and united states senate candidate val demings. "the reidout" road show continues from the beautiful hall of the yard in orlando, florida, right after this. that was quick. and rewarding. i earn 3% cash back at drugstores with chase freedom unlimited. that means i earn on my bug spray and my sunscreen.

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as the daughter of a maid and a janitor, to have the president of the united states come to florida to campaign with me, to help me get my message out, isn't that what the american dream is all about? >> i am joined now by florida congresswoman and united states senate candidate val demings. and i have to point out, congresswoman, that we're here

with a crowd that loves you. and i want to point out to our audience that you were supposed to be with us last night when we were supposed to do the live show at another location, so that's why you are not -- you're remote. you're in my former county, broward county, where i used to live, so that's why you're not here. i know folks here miss you, but i know that's why you're not here. but i'm in your district. so your district is beautiful. >> it's great to be in broward, but i tell you, that's my hometown crowd, so welcome to orlando. >> they're giving you your flowers. they love you. say hi to my county for me. let me start out, i'm glad you're in broward. a good friend of mine who lives in broward county and i had a long talk yesterday. we were talking about turnout. you know, and i am an

evangelist. i'm at my most annoying during election season because i harass everybody. i'm in the stores saying, person behind the counter, did you vote? but what i'm hearing about florida, unlike a lot of other states like georgia and states like pennsylvania, is that african american voters are voting in lighter numbers than one would think with a black woman on the ballot with somebody who i know is very popular here, yourself on the ballot. i just want to give you a couple statistics here. in 2018, at this stage or about 3.3 million votes on the table, it's a little down from that now, 3.28 million, that's the total florida absentee votes, a decline of 76,000 votes. you talk about simnel county, seeing low turnout, that's here closer to where i am now. lower turnout. if you compare florida to pennsylvania and georgia, it's not quite keeping up.

why do you think that is, and how can you encourage folks in this state to get out and vote, actually, florida is a little ahead of georgia. how can you encourage folks in this state to vote? >> i can tell you, i have been on the ground here myself in broward county, several trips, knocking on doors myself, talking to people who have not voted. as you well know, the last two years have been tough, it's been tough for everybody, but we also know that florida was hit hard by the pandemic. florida's been hit hard by hurricanes, natural disasters, and so we are making sure that we get out and knock on doors and talk to people about if we're going to change things, if we're going to make sure that people who have been hit hard, people who have lost their jobs, people who have been adversely affected by climate change and the intense storms they bring, if people are going to be impacted by the lack of health care, we're fighting for that, so we're trying to certain make

voting easier and not harder. talking to people about have a plan to vote, don't wait until election day, which a lot of people do. we're glad they get out and vote, but we're asking the voters, please do not wait for election day. have a plan, think about how you're going to vote, transportation, make sure of your polling place, and let's get this done. >> your opponent, marco rubio, he is the co-sponsor of what would be a national abortion ban. lindsey graham's bill to ban abortion nationwide, he's the co-sponsor. it would create the same law federally that is here in the state of florida. is that an issue that comes up when you're talking to folks and knocking on doors? >> you know, joy, it is. of course, people are concerned about costs. we have a lack of affordable housing in florida. a greater lack of affordable housing than we do in new york city and los angeles, which is shocking to believe. people are concerned about gas

at the pumps, children are concerned about the cost of tuition or being saddled with debt. seniors are concerned about the cost of prescription drugs. there's only one party trying to do something about that. but the bottom line is, as we talk about the issues that people care about, i have not been in many meetings at all where protecting constitutional rights has not been an issue. women, we are not going back to a time where we are treated as second class citizens or property. we're going to fight to protect the right to choose, and that's what voters expect their united states senator from florida to do. >> you know, and the republicans, including your opponent, they're trying to make crime an issue. crime is not up nationwide. it's not changed definitively from the previous president's era, but they want to run on that. you actually are a former member of law enforcement. it's a bit ironic they're trying

to use that against you but he's trying to do that. in your view, how many hours will it take after the election for the republicans to stop talking about crime? because it doesn't seem like it's an issue they care about if they don't care about january 6th? >> well, and joy, look, i served 27 years as a law enforcement officer, had the honor of serving as the chief of police. i certainly did not pick and choose when i wanted to fight crime based on the political climate. we fought crime every day, and we were able to reduce violent crime by 40%. marco rubio only likes to talk about crime when he thinks it's politically advantageous to do it. you're absolutely right. dog gone it, i was in the capitol on january 6th. you talk about a day when crime fell on the steps of the capitol, entered the building, and terrorized members of congress, our leadership, and our staff. if marco rubio is so concerned about crime, why didn't he vote

for an independent commission to investigate what happened on january 6th? so look, i'm just not talking the talk. i walk the walk. >> let me ask you about marco rubio's campaign. he had one campaign member who it turns out is associated with white supremacist groups. his hospital room after he was hit when he was campaigning for marco rubio, canvassing for him, and the proud boys were guarding his hospital room. we have now had members of the proud boys who are acting as poll watchers, walking around in miami-dade, and that's a group that we know was involved in january 6th. they're now getting involved in the miami-dade republican party. are you concerned that there's been a merger between the extremists who participated in january 6th and the party that you're running against?

>> well, you know, my mom used to say, we know you by the company that you keep. and i said it on the debate stage, and i'm going to say it tonight. i have been extremely disappointed in marco rubio's performance. his desire, it appears, to win by any means necessary, yeah, he spoke up quickly about his canvasser who was beat, and look, i said quickly as well, political violence of any kind is not tolerated. it shouldn't be tolerated anyplace or at any time. but paul pelosi was beat in the head with a hammer, and does marco rubio know that? because somehow, i haven't heard where he has spoken up and spoken out against that. but joy, the bottom line is this. i won't do anything or say anything to win, i trust the voters of florida. and they have a real choice in

this race. we ask you to not wait until election day. get out and vote early. if you need more information, you know, joy, go to valdemings.com, and let's win this thing so that florida will have the representation they deserve. >> i'm going to ask you one last question because i know that you were an impeachment manager during one of the two impeachments of the former president. we're now getting more and more information that john eastman about what he was doing in terms of trying to involve clarence thomas, justice clarence thomas of the supreme court, directly in the election. are you concerned that if republicans take over the house, that the investigations into january 6th will promptly end? >> you know, joy, when you are bold enough to say to the attorney general to clear your calendar, i'm 100% convinced that if the republicans take over, the investigations will

end. and that's why we cannot allow that to happen. our democracy is at risk. >> congresswoman and united states senate candidate val demings, thank you very much. enjoy broward county. "the reidout" road show live from orlando, florida, will be right back.

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on the playground, in the community, in the office, nobody likes a bully. but that's exactly who ron desantis is. bullying our kids, bullying the lgbtq community, and bullying floridians seeking abortion care. we have seen bullies like ron before. we're not afraid, and we're fighting back. >> with florida's governor ron desantis attacking the lgbtq community, women's rights, and history itself, many young people have reacted by getting more involved in politics. my next two guests became politically active following mass shootings, both are survivors of gun violence in florida. and i'm joined now by florida congressional candidate maxwell frost and brandel, survivor of the pulse nightclub shooting, and the press secretary for equality florida. gentlemen, thank you for being

here. >> thank you. >> i want to start with you, brandon, because i played the ad, equality florida is running. this issue of making it illegal, unlawful for people to just declare themselves and who they are in schools, it's frightening. it's spawned a lawsuit. you do have some parents and teachers that are now filing a lawsuit. it's hard to believe that a law like that existed in america, right? can you talk about the impacts it's had so far? >> it's heartbreaking we're in 2022, not 1950, talking about whether or not lgbtq people can be themselves in this state and in this country. listen, this community knows full well what happens when we allow hatred and bigotry like what ron desantis has displayed to fester and to grow. it was 6 1/2 years ago that a man filled with that same hate and bigotry charged into pulse nightclub, an lgbtq safe space, opened fire, and killed 49 people. 49 of our friends, of our family members. that's what happens when we allow that hate to fester. we're watching it happen across

the state. books are being banned with lgbtq characters. rainbow safe space stickererize being peeled off classroom windows. miami-dade county schools decided to reject lgbtq history month this year because they said it was in conflict with the law, and all of that is weighing heavily on teachers just trying to teach, kids just trying to be themselves, and on families who deserve to be respected like everyone else. >> maxwell, meanwhile, the place where yousured be the safest in school, if you're not fearful that your teacher will get fired or you as a teacher will be fired because you're lgbtq, you also have to worry about school shootings. we saw the sentencing, a life sentence for the parkland school shooting. the parents were upset, they thought it should be a death penalty. do you think -- florida has done more than texas to try to beat back gun violence, but do you think the state has done enough under this governor? >> no, they haven't. what we know to be true is that

just a few months ago, we found out that the leading cause of death for children went from automobile accidents to guns. our children are literally on the front lines of this national tragedy, and our governor has done nothing to solve it. and what we know is that he is scapegoating the most vulnerable communities due to his failures. he hasn't done anything on affordable housing, gun violence, so he's saying it's the fault of the lgbtq community, of black folks, latinos. we see low it. we louis 100 people a day due to gun violence. i know sometimes we can get lost in the numbers because we see a mass shooting almost every day on twitter, but behind every number, there's a person. there's a story. there's a family, and we can't lose sight of that. >> you know, i'm glad that pulse was mentioned here, obviously, because whenever we bring you on, you represent the survivors, but also the dead. you represent your friends that you lost. that happened in this community. we are here in orlando, and that

would be the district that you would represent. so i want both of you just to talk for a moment about what you think should be done federally. we have seen president biden take some steps, more than we have seen in like 30 years. but what else do you think should be done? what would you want to do in congress to do more to stop gun violence. >> >> we know there's a common sense measure that most americans are for, that most republicans are for, which is universal background checks to make sure guns don't fall in the wrong hands. that's not some radical thing. that's insuring that people have a background check before they're given a weapon. i think that's something we can pass. bipartisan support shouldn't just mean what the nra is for. it should mean what the people want and what we know is people want to end this senseless violence. >> what do you think should be done federally? >> i agree with maxwell. let's do what the majority of americans want. let's close the loopholes that

exist in the system, let's institute a red flag order so we can get guns out of thandz of people who are a danger to others. i believe because i have come face-to-face with the muzzle of an assault weapon, assault weapons and high capacity magazines have no place on our streets and they need to be off. >> the other thing, where we started, was talking about the cruelty factor in republican politics to be fair. to be honest right now. and the more cruelty actually the more popularity ron desantis has been able to achieve. and so i wonder, brandon, for you, for the communities that are at risk, for lgbtq voters, for young voters, for people who are afraid to send their kid to fourth grade, are you worried that the reaction will be to retreat rather than to vote? and how can we turn that around and get young people to vote? >> that's always the fear. and that's the intent of the

cruel policies. they're designed to scare us back into the closet, to erase us from communities. and honestly, desantis' strategy is similar to the right wing strategy across the country which is to make things so chaotic, so overwhelming that people feel like there is no hope in fighting back. i'm here to tell people, our only hope is to fight back. throughout history, we have done the most good work when we have been unafraid, unapologetic, when we have stood up to bullies like you saw in thad ad and say we're not going to take it. we get to write what happens next in this country. we're the people in a democracy. we ged to decide what happens next and that starts by showing up next week. >> maxwell, i have to point out another thing happening in the state in particular. and you grew up in a cuban american home. speaking spanish daily. which i wish i could do. i'm so mad at myself. but there is a lot of disinformation on language radio that spanish speakers are

getting piped in, and it's moving a lot of voters. you're seeing movement that people are believing democrats are all communists or whatever else is being said. is there something that democrats should be doing, that the media should be doing, that the public should be doing? because disinformation we know is dangerous. we saw what happened to paul pelosi. >> what we know to be true is there's a long history of republicans using spanish radio to work to fuel disinformation in places like south florida. my mom, my aunt, and my grandma came here from cuba in the late 1960s. my mom and aunt are in the audience right now. >> wait a minute, hold on. hang on now. okay, okay. they're beautiful. >> but i remember my mom telling me about how that disinformation was there when she came here. and so this has been their plan. and they think because people don't know english, that for some reason they're more likely to believe it. so what we have to do as democrats is combat it by insuring we're spending in those areas and spending with spanish language media. and not giving up on the voters.

>> absolutely. and that spending piece is important because i think people, you show your values by where you're willing to spend your money. and i think for democrats having worked in campaigns, sometimes spending on ethnic media goes by the wayside, which then in the end they're running into churches. i want to show something to our audience here. can you zoom in on this, downtown sterling brown, my director? that's his name, downtown sterling brown. this is a beautiful, beautiful thing. you got it. beautiful. that i just got from my friend brandon. i want you to explain what it is and who made it. >> so our dear friend banjo hansen made your an orlando ribbon. yes, we love ben. and it stands for a lot of things. i want to address for me what's at the core of it. people know about florida. unfortunately, they know a lot about the anti-lgbtq agenda of ron desantis. they know a lot about don't say gay. this not only stands for the 49 people stolen from us at pulse,

it helps us remember. it's also a proud declaration that here in orlando in this community that's been touched by hate, we proudly say gay. we proudly say trans. we proudly say queer. and we're not going anywhere. so i hope you'll wear it with pride. >> i absolutely will. thank you very much. please thank the wonderful person who made it. i'm going to make sure it's on the instagram. it's going to get on. we're going to get it on the gram. maxwell and brandon, two incredible young activists. give them another hand. incredible. and maxwell is trying to be a congressman. thank you all very much. tonight's democracy defender joins us next on the other side of the break. "the reidout" road show live in orlando, florida, will be right back.

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instance where we have a certain amount of time, a woman should know if she's pregnant or not, and she has that allotted time to do it. >> number one, women's rights, abortion. >> yeah. >> number two, losing our democracy is like high on my priority list. >> i think there are some people who are eager to say that abortion is not the issue that democrats thought it was going to be. it's not true. >> i think it is. i think that's really bad. i think that it is the issue. >> there is someone here, too, ron desantis, who it seems like an issue in this governor's race, is this a springboard to something else for him, a presidential run. >> yes, i think he wants to run for president, yes, and i do think whether he's governor or president, he's going to overturn abortion in florida. >> joining me now is msnbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali. my friend, thank you for being

here. excellent job. i saw your walk and talk with congressman demings earlier. well done. that was interesting listening to you talk to those voters, and the first person, the first woman you spoke with, she mentioned the pandemic. we haven't talked a lot about the pandemic in this campaign. to what extent when you talk to voters did governor desantis not closing restaurants, not closing gyms and keeping schools maskless, how much is that factoring into whether people support him or don't? >> it's actually huge, joy. it's something that i have heard about from a lot of voters. desantis voters for sure, but even in the instance of the first woman, she was fascinating because she's not a republican through and through. she never voted for trump. she doesn't want to vote for him if he runs in 2024. and she vote for biden. she looked at desantis as someone who kept the state open

despite what other governors were doing, allowed businesses to keep working. that was important for her. all of that steers back to the broader issue of the economy and my conversations with voters. what i also think is fascinating is the ways there are no clean lines here. for example, again, that first voter cares deeply about the issue of abortion, but to her, economy was more important. so again, all of the issues we see playing out in the polls are present in my conversations with voters, but they're certainly not necessarily going in clean party lines. that's not the way it works on the ground. >> all right. ali vitali, thank you very much. well done. i'm joined now by tonight's democracy defender, cecile skoon, who is president of the league of women voters of florida. she's a fierce advocate of easy, equitable voting and she's fighting for your right to vote free from intimidation. thank you for being here, cecile. giving her a big hand. i know you're nonpartisan. there are a lot of signs.

but the organization is nonpartisan. tell me what you do. everybody has heard of the league of women voters and y'all have been targeted sometimes for what you do. >> we have. we started because we wanted to get the right to vote for women, which was denied over 100 years ago. and so we realized we had to fight for the marginalized groups of people, and then once they got the right to vote, we realized we had to educate because they hadn't had that opportunity. we're still doing that today. we want everyone to vote who is lawfully able to. but we realize that there are communities that have not had access, so we target those, and we provide information to everybody. >> what is the question you get the most when it comes to a voter who hasn't voted before? what do they want to know? so when someone asked me that question i look at their situation. if someone has a small child, i say what are you taking care of this lovely child? do you care about their school situation? do you care about what is going

on in the libraries? and i say as a voter your phone will determine about someone making a decision about those things. when you bring it to them personally, the usually say, i want to register, i want to vote. >> you have a voter guide there because one of the things and counter these to work on the campaign side people say the, only thing i know about is obama. they don't know all the other candidates are, the judges, the school board people. you have a voter guide here. how do voter guides work? of explaining who are the candidates are what do voter guides? to >> our former guide talks about what is on the ballot, we never recommend a party and we never recommend a politician. we just let them give a statement about what their values are. we ask the standard questions and many of them take opportunity to give us information and some don't. so then we just say go to their website. we also talk about the three amendments that we had to the

constitution. we give them links where they can go link for more information. >> now but the amendments. i know back when i was a florida voter. where these amendments are sometimes written, the written legally some people don't know what they're voting on. does it explain what's in place? >> absolutely, that's what we try to do. we try to let them know if you vote yes, this is the likelihood >> to slap and right. >> if you vote no this is the likely outcome. do you research and do your best. >> that is the most important thing, you being informed and feeling informed, feeling empowered. what would be your message? give us your oliveira pitch. if somebody says i don't think voting is important, why is it important? >> it is important because is a fundamental american right. there was a study done and they asked what do you prize the most in voting was number one. so that's just people saying in their heart, that's what they think of when they are american. so when we all vote, we are all

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