also featured judicial watch, who i heard ken blackwell name drop.ey said president barack obama stole the election in 2008 and is planning to do it again in 2012 with the help of the "illegal alien" vote and the " proved stamped army." the current secretary of state' of ohio was a scandal speaker this past weekend at the true the vote summit. shortly before the summit, our story at colorlines and "the nation goes to expose the voter intimidation network that "true the vote" has amassed over the years. the morning at the summit, secretary of state husted pulled out as a speaker. he did not attend. yesterday i spoke with his office about the reasons why he pulled out of the event and they said it was due to a schedule change. they would not elaborate with me on more details about what actually changed the schedule -- in the schedule printer >> one of the states that recently passed a strict voter the dedication was wisconsin, home of republican vice-presidential candidate paul ryan and republican national committee chair priebus. wisconsin's law would

, were embarrassed about what ken blackwell did set up early voting and made it much more accessible. rolling back reforms they made, and in no time really in our lifetimes have we seen us go backwards on access to the ballot. this is just morally reprehsible to allow more and more big money on one end and shut people down on the other end that would like to vote early. >> what explains, in your mind, that abandonment of that consensus that we used to have in this country about the expansion of voting rights, about the idea that partisanship didn't have a role in the administration of elections? obviously there's been crooked elections officials here and there throughout american history, but in recent history, we all used to think we were all sort of polling in the same direction, particularly after there had been some national embarrassments. how did it change so fast and go so far? >> i think these -- i think they feel so threatened by barack obama, so threatened, the far right and some of their large corporate interests, particularly wall stree and the oil industry feel so threate

ken blackwell is the chair. ken, what is this campaign about? >> it is about maybing sure that the obama forces don't define, distort and destroy paul ryan's record and his chances of becoming romney's vice president . we are in the going to allow them to use the next two weeks to dough fine paul into something he is not. many of us who have worked with paul for the last 20 years are determined to make sure his message of limited government and economic growth and an embrace of the moral foundation of this country is the story that is told. this is a very likable young man -- >> but what do you do? >> he is a serious threat. >> i'm sorry. how do you keep the word out? what do you do? >> we go into every venue where they are trying to distort his record. that's using social media and using radio and using town halls. we will show up wherever they are to counter their spin. one of the things that i have told the small circle of friends who are out there, look, we had to understand this about paul and the response from the forces. dogs don't bark a

electoral college, when it came to the actual voting, the secretary of state of ohio, a guy named ken blackwelland the secretary of state's job is to tell-part is to ensure fair, nonpartisan elections -- happened to the co-chair of the bush campaign. there is no conflict there. he gave a contract to host the film oversight for the republican the last brother for the votes in 2004, to another than smartech. this is where things went a little crazy. >> how is that even allow to happen? >> i think it is a huge conflict of interest on the face of it for the secretary of state of a party to be affiliated with one campaign or another. as we saw in 2004 in florida. >> 2004, election night, tell us the story. >> about 11:14 p.m., things started to happen, exactly. as the votes came in, it was clear it was going to be an all- nighter in terms of the results. around 11:00, florida was called for bush. that meant the entire fate of the election hinged on ohio. suddenly -- excuse me. the servers for the secretary of state's computers were -- >> ohio secretary of state. >> exactly. they needed to lock into

the new weekend anchor victor blackwell, and welcome.the right time and tracking all of the ireports, and it is a huge story, and you have seen the pictures. share them with us. >> well, suzanne, we have received hundreds of the ireports from people along the gulf coast and all of the states affected by hurricane issac and more than 300 of them. we have three of the best from new orleans and we will start with the photograph that came in from ireporter of eileen romero of this house on south cortez street in new orleans. the mid city neighborhood, and she said that at 8:00 a.m. this morning she was out driving to find gas for a generator, and she found that this house had collapsed. you can see in the photograph that there is a tree that collapsed on the house, and the gable of the roof is leaning on the house next to it, but although, those two houses are still standing. we have two videos from the storm chaser alex, and let's look at the first video. of course, you can hear the wind there, and this is along lake pontchartrain, and he s

we saw this in ohio in 2004 when ken blackwell as secretary of state passed a variety of rules very closere seeing now. are folks in ohio mobilized against what is happening there? >> absolutely. in fact, i have two attorneys on my campaign team who have been active in protecting the vote for quite some time. people are engaged and active. they want to vote. this is exciting. it's exciting for people to want to cast their ballots. we should encourage more of it. if someone wants to suppress a vote, you have to wonder why. if someone is trying to suppress a vote, it must be because they are afraid that you're going to vote against them for a very good reason. i encourage everyone to vote. come on out and vote. make the decision. it is yours to make. that's what it means to live in a democracy in the united states of america. >> what are the strategies here? >> what are the strategies of the people -- >> well, i mean, the pushing back against the strategies. what are the options that are facing voters on the ground in ohio right now? >> well, look, what voters have to do, not just in ohio a

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antiabortion lawyer james bop to a bunch of supporters of rick santorum to a virginia delegate named martin blackwellups, all of these folks now say they're planning to force another roll call vote at the rnc to protest republicans trying to change the nominating process for 2016. the romney folks have tried to change the nominating process for 2016 to make sure the front running candidate can essentially shut down insurgent and rival candidacies by locking up delegates at their own whim. republicans do not want those kinds of fights to be on the news. this is supposed to be the yay mitt romney convention and instead it's going to be that and also lots of other republicans, many of whom have big constituencies of their own arguing loudly in a big room in front of cameras about how mitt romney is big footing the process and shutting down the little guy and forcing a hostile takeover of the republican party's processes. the republican party does not want that on television. the democratic party wouldn't want something like that on television. as much as this sometimes seems like a pre-scripted pageant,