the list of more than one hundred eighty thousand people that have been compiled by looking at d.m.v. records which wasn't an accurate method well that was so riddled with issues that rick scott's former secretary of state didn't want to release and then he resigned then after his resignation rick scott went released it anyway and as you pointed out think progress found this week that hundreds of cases already in just one county where parents were u.s. citizens have been placed on this list wrongly but there's more say florida also passed a law that greatly restricts voter registration creates large fees large penalties penalties that in fact forced groups like rock the vote to shut down their operations in the state and the rules include requirements that completed voter registration forms had to be submitted within forty eight hours as opposed to the ten days they were previously allowed they also 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 v

voters that could be taken off the rolls because they have a faulty system right there is making d.m.v. records the houston chronicle recently said that in the state of texas one point five million people might be kicked off a voter registration and so i want your take on this because we are to have a problem in this country of low voter turnout right why would they want to make it any more difficult why do lawmakers want it that will because it's about power the issue is power. if they can control the electorate by shrinking it and thereby making it more manageable weeding out people who are unlikely to support their position then and they mean republicans yes they can get their policy agenda passed so it's really an issue of power if they can shrink the electorate get people out get students out seniors out who care about medicare so security get in you know the poor people out who need a hand. you know and stuff like that they will do that and that is exactly what's going on right now so the bottom line is if this is a power equation then the people have to come together and say no we're goi