s are going to be challenging oh well one of the things you know the election protection coalition is a nonpartisan you know are going to say send the and it's a coalition of many many organizations one hundred fifty of us plus you know two hundred law firms that you know put thousands of volunteers out into the streets to help protect voters and we are very worried about the mistreating poll workers and it's not just you know campaigns we're also see and for the vote doing the same kind of misleading mis education we're seeing and other organizations doing this i don't think it's an accident that they get a lot lot. wrong and that they have people so you have that whole incident it one city where people were challenging somalian naturalized citizens as they went to vote because stake said they did not vote they did not speak english whale now thank you everybody there's something called a voting rights act and it has a section too old to read it is a bilingual provision for people who are bad for allies so the soon certain who want to you know have english assistants and so it's just

expect most people to be able to vote on election day without a problem and for those who don't i organise ation as part of a coalition the election protection coalition and we run a hotline one eight six six our vote and we like people that's available for anybody to call if they have any or any problems and we will try to help people work through the problems they have an election day and john certainly what we're seeing is a lot of people having problems getting the ideas with all of this a slew of new voter id laws coming into place here but i do want to ask you what do these voting monitors what real jurisdiction do they have if any in calling out voter fraud and software in elections it's really not their job to interfere and to be to be clear what they're there to do is they're there to observe and they and what will happen is they'll go where they'll watch the elections in various states across the country and they'll come back with a report based on based on what they've seen they're not going to the idea is when you're an observer you're not in there to interfere if you see you see something that isn't going right and that really d

according to the election protection coalition, which posted issues, reports from virginia of long lines and machine switching votes in favor of romney. one week after superstorm sandy, new jersey saw its share problems with reports of technical malfunctions, poll workers army demanding id from voters. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama has been reelected to a second term with a resounding victory@ over republican challenger mitt romney. by the end up tuesday night, obama 150% of the popular vote, securing 303 electoral votes to romney's 206. obama nearly swept all of the key battleground states, taking ohio, virginia, florida, pennsylvania, nevada, iowa, wisconsin, colorado, and in hampshire. there were only two states president obama won in 2008 but lost in 2012 -- north carolina diana. all the major networks began calling the election for obama at 11:20 p.m. eastern, romney did not publicly concede until nearly 1:00 a.m. president obama spoke close to 2:00 a.m. eastern time, addressing

and i think it will help us not to -- when i say us shall the election protection coalition. going forward. it will help all of us to stop the bad tactics, to pass new laws that will make it better for people to vote and it also, what i'm really proud of, again, is the american voter. they're going out there and saying, i won't take it. >> yep. >> it's backfired totally. >> it may be more than a defining moment of the campaign. it may be in the democratic process. >> no doubt about it. >> cornell, your defining moment in. >> it was really the ad that they put out about welfare. sort of the lie that the president was going to gut welfare. >> just in case folks don't remember, let's take a listen to the ad. >> president obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirement. under obama's plan you wouldn't have to work or train for a job. you just get sent your check. welfare goes back to being plain old well pair. >> the problem with this is, look, we've had sort of campaigns sort of be misleading in the past. but the level of this outright lie, i thi

protect turkey if need be. the turkish foreign minister congratulating the just elected leader of the new unified syrian opposition coalition. turkey and its allies and friends and syria a group of nations that backed the face serious opposition have pledged to give it full recognition and support. we will do everything possible to get recognition from this new body. we will work with the arab league and the gulf states, europe, and america and it will announce recognition of your counsel as the only legitimate representative of the syrians. while the west clearly hopes the unification of opposition groups could be a turning point back -- could be a turning point, the regime had dismissed meetings out of hand. with the only dialogue going on is on the battlefield which is moving in relentlessly around the capitol like here in the damascus suburbs. the unified opposition and its outside backers insist that bashar assad must go before there can be any dialogue. he is clearly not ready to do that. >> the war in syria continues as do their regional implications. when the head of the cia resigns after admitting to an extramarita