challenged bill gardner as having any role in determining who gets to vote the league of women voters then was called the communist league of women voters by the chairman of the committee kris kobach this is their response to legitimate concerns about the qualifications of members so it's not just a question of partisanship and it's almost entirely a republican panel but remember they as violence because he had demanded they don't even have the kind of normal crazy republicans you have to have crazy crazy republicans and a few democrats who are completely rejected for their and frankly racist operations of voter rolls in places like new hampshire greg thirty seconds left your guy who's been on top of every election scandal for the last few decades from florida to ohio to this year with the states and cross-check what do you have your eye on right now heading into two thousand and eighteen is it this commission is there something else that we should also be paying attention to. well whether it comes to this commission or not it's the idea that you have to prove you're a citizen to vote

and the league of women voters earlier this year filed a lawsuit so strike down the state's congressional map. so, what is your reaction to that? val: well, first off, keep in mind that 800,000 vote deficit that we saw from the republican party, that's been knocked down from about 900,000 earlier this year to about 800,000, so we're gaining ground there. a lot of those 800,000 are folks that are--have moved and they need to be purged from the voter role. so, we know that that's a much lower number. as far as why we do so well at a 13 to 5 advantage, we recruit great candidates, candidates who are not on the extremes in a lot of cases and who raise a lot of money. and we have a great organization in pennsylvania, a great ground game in the republican party. our message resonates throughout the commonwealth of pennsylvania in very diverse districts from rural pennsylvania in the west to more moderate suburban districts and that's why we do so well. it's a combination of factors. drawing the lines is one element of it but it's a much broader, it's a much broader group of reasons than just th

the records of the national urban league and national women's party, brotherhood of sleeping car importers, league of women voters, and american colonization society. voluminouse large collection. but we can also have a collection that is just one piece of paper. this is hourly harvey oswald collection. this is a letter that he wrote in 19 to qqq to the -- 1962 to the american rescue committee where he is trying to get help for his wife to try to come to the united states. his wife was russian born. of reformersapers and non-politicians. this is booker t. washington's papers. we have the papers of people like susan b anthony, margaret sanger, and frederick douglass. again it is not just politicians per se, but people involved in reform activities. we also have the papers of many novelists, authors. women's papers just recently went online. is a as you might see, very famous picture of whitman on the right that circulated in the 19th century because he was interested in nature. he wrote about it quite a bit. here he was saying, look, i am so good at nature that butterflies land on my finger. well, that was a cardb

even realize that the price of the goddamn debates are rigged right so used to be run by the league of women voters and they would have a fair impartial questioners and questions and then the two parties the two corporations got together and said let's get rid of these people they're asking us questions we don't want to answer and since we both agree on screwing over workers and we both agree on being in bed with wall street the mill let's just get our own and so now they have their presidential debate commission which has nothing to do with fairness it has to do with protecting the party which is the one party and so did sense two thousand and eight there hasn't been a question about climate change and the presidential debate and then when jill stein showed up they handcuffed her to a chair for eight hours and why do you do that you don't do that because she's not a threat you do that because you're afraid of the ideas and you're afraid of people hearing them why wouldn't you bring gary johnson and jill stein on stage because you actually have a conversation then and they don't want to actually co