excuse me and they've been introduced in thirty four states and passed in seven states the brennan center for justice estimates that as many as twenty one million americans could be denied their right to vote if so that will translate into a landslide romney win but just to make sure romney is getting into the voter suppression game sell as investigative reporter leaf falling out republic report on covered the romney camp campaign has paid more than seventy thousand dollars to this guy nathan sproul to do political consulting work what exactly are they paying sproul for well given sprawls previous record then most likely is being paid to disenfranchise democratic voters as following reports back in two thousand and four sprawls political consulting firm was investigated for destroying democratic voter registration forms in oregon and nevada while working for the bush cheney campaign the democratic voters in nevada who registered to vote through sproul mysteriously found their names absent from voter registration rolls when they showed up at the polls also in two thousand and four sproul spearheaded i

according to a study by the brennan center for justice eleven percent of eligible voters do not have a photo i.d. that's twenty one million americans will be denied their right to vote by paul way rick's alec if they have their way and then there's what's happening in wisconsin thanks to an obscure election laws passed by republicans in that state last year tens of thousands of college students were ineligible to vote today in wisconsin since the law didn't give them enough time to update their addresses after graduating from school last month again college students tend to vote for democrats which is of course why they're being targeted and then there's what's happening in texas where so-called voter roll maintenance will kick as many as one and a half a million texas voters off the rolls houston chronicle found that one in ten texas voters have had their registration suspended and among young voters people under thirty voters who tend to vote for democrats the number jumps to one in five between two thousand and eight and two thousand and ten three hundred thousand eligible voters

. >>> coming up, we speak to the president of the brennan center for justice, next. yep. the longer you stay with us, the more you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something. show her, tom. huh? you should see november! oh, yeah? giving you more. now that's progressive. call or click today. >>> governor romney is in arizona today for a fund-raiser in scottsdale later this afternoon. today's decision by the supreme court on arizona's immigration law could have a major impact on the presidential election, especially among latino voters. joining the panel now is michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justice, nyu school of law and msnbc contributor, steve kornacki of salon.com. he is also co-host of msnbc's "the cycle" which premieres today at 3:00 p.m. eastern. and from mexico city, telemundo's jose diaz-balart. let me ask you first, my friend, how does this decision play out with latino voters? >> good af

participation is nothing compared to the horrors of voter fraud which, according to the brennan center for justicepens at a terrifying rate of .0004%! (laughter) >> any group that comes up with a number that specific is blowing smoke through their ass. >> right. you always want to be suspicious of specific numbers. >> look, the detected voter fraud that you prosecute and put people in jail for may be one number. but there's a lot of voter fraud out there you can never catch because it's so easy to do! >> so voter fraud statistics are limited only as much as your imagination. (laughter) and the people whose job it is to catch fraud-- like elections supervisor ann mcfall couldn't be more grateful to have this law in place. >> the law doesn't make any sense. i don't see the fraud in voter registration. it just isn't happening. >> but, anne, i'm not talking about voter fraud that has happened. i'm talking about the voter fraud that might have happened. >> where did you get these ideas? >> john fund. >> who? >> having a short window so you have to turn in the form quickly lessen it is chance for mischi

disqualified university id cards as valid voter identification and according to a study by the brennan center for justice the voting laws could make it difficult for up to five million people to vote this november now there is a ray of hope in all of this the justice department wrote a strictly worded letter to the state of florida noting that their actions may violate the voting rights act a federal judge in florida also blocked parts of the state law on voter registration arguing that it violates the first amendment and the national voter registration act so hopefully these laws will be held up hopefully eligible voters will have their say november but we have to recognize this attack for what it is we have to acknowledge that there are states out there are republican legislatures are . it can governors that want to take the right to vote away from many americans and it's no coincidence that these restrictive measures often affect those who are more likely to vote for a democrat but the truth is that it shouldn't matter which party these voters would be in favor of this is a right that's granted us cit

several studies including one by the nonpartisan brennan center for justice and found the voter id laws do take away the rights to vote from tens it could be for more than ten million americans who don't own cars particularly particularly hard hitting low income people minority people college students and elderly voters people who generally tend to vote for democrats here's what paul wiring the guy who ran the reagan campaign ran the george herbert walker bush campaign advisor the george w. bush campaign founder of the american legislative exchange council and co-founder of the heritage foundation here's what he had to say to a group of republican christian activists in one thousand nine hundred dollars taxes. how many of our class have what i call them grown good government they want everybody to vote i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. leverage in the elections why can't i go up only popular. are our leverage goes up as the vote in any as he said that he was working on

there is a 2006 study by the brennan center for justice at new york university which estimates that up african americans citizens of voting age do not have current government issued photo i.d.s and many of the states are calling for that compared with 8% of white citizens. do you still consider the attorney general and president as wrong to tell hispanic voters that perhaps their voting rights could be in jeopardy? >> the figures don't dispute what we have seen happen on election day. the question here is do these laws depress black voter tornout and there is no evidence that they do. >> kelly: jason let's go back to the voting rights act and language. do you know what the voting rights act of 1965 actually called for. in. >> the voting rights act of 1965 was about access to the ballot. that was the original intent of the voting rights act. >> kelly: let me read a little bit for you. the act is considered a landmark in civil rights legislation though some provisions have sparked poe let cal controversy and during the debate over the 2006 extension some republican members of congress ob

michael waldman of the brennan center for justice.ave you. >> nice to be here. >> the original one people look back to is back in 2000. how does what we're looking at in 2012 compare to the 2000 purge which focused on a felony purge? >> when it comes to messed up voter purges and messed up elections florida -- >> leading the way. >> people say what's the next florida when it comes to election messes and always turns out to be florida. so in 2000, there was a purge of voters who supposedly had felony convictions and it turned out that a lot of them didn't. they were eligible voters kicked off the rolls and in fact it was so many, it was more than the margin of victory in the president shl election in florida. >> i heard from 1100 -- not the margin of victory, number of people kicked off the rolls. >> something close to 2,000 i think but that was -- the margin of victory -- >> too much higher in many cases. >> yeah. we want the rolls to be cleaned up. we don't want people who aren't eligible to vote to be on the rolls. the way this is s

according to the brennan center for justice, those laws will disproportiona disproportionately impactty citizens and students, all eligible voters who already face the biggest hurdles to voting. and interestingly, all people who tend to vote democratic, because you see, this is a question of strategy, and what this isn't is the new jim crow, because the old jim crow, and the only jim crow was about the subrogation of black people under the system of white supremacy, and black and white, and voter suppression in 2012 whether it is purging thousands of voters from the rolls or stripping the rights, it is not about black and white, but two colors, red and blue. reading the system to take the meaning away from the majority. coming up, i'm going the tell you how the voter suppression efforts have gotten so ugly in one state that the justice department had to step in this week, and the strategy of keeping you from voting is ahead. [ music playing, indistinct conversations ] the charcoal went out already? [ sighs ] forget it. [ male announcer ] there's more barbeque time in every bag of king

two thousand and seven study from the brennan center of justice and taking a look at those studies let's just say if the frequency of the crime is underwhelming for example in one suppose it missouri double voting epidemic from two thousand to two thousand and two there were only four cases a rate of zero point zero zero zero three percent it was also allege the five thousand four hundred and twelve votes were cast by dead people in georgia in the year two thousand but these are all examples of false alarms at the end of the day not a single case of bonafide fraud there but what about using pets to cheat the system the nine people have been recorded registering dogs to protest the ease of registration risking lengthy prison sentences sentences in the process but the thing is that there's only been one instance of a dog actually voting and that was in a local election in california hardly a cause for panic and then how about non-citizen voters like the people that governor rick scott is up in arms about and washington in two thousand and five county officials looked into the eligibility of one thousand six hundred and sixty eight registered voters