rick scott's florida they're also passing laws to make it harder to register people to vote what's going on here deirdre macnab joins me now she's the president of the league of women voters of florida they're welcome to the program eighty tom it's a pleasure to be reviewed is the thanks for joining us first is this new law new law actually making it harder to register new voters. unquestionably it is and it's it's very unfortunate because your viewers i'm sure are very familiar with the year two thousand and the difficulties that florida faced as really the poster child in the country how not to run the elections we made a lot of sense that year with new machinery a paper trail the expansion of early voting and then what we've seen just in the last few years is a very consistent effort to make it harder for our citizens in florida to get right to start and harder for them to cast their vote just just this year in the legislative session they put into place a number of laws and a voter registration difficulties that you alluded to with the high school teacher is just one of several elements they cut early voting hours and days in half maybe to murder people who've been ar

of those would directly affect young people. in the state of florida, for example, there is a law that passed that will make it harder for organizations like rock the vote and the league of women voters to do our work. adding additional levels of bureaucracy, putting financial burdens and potential funds for our young volunteers and teachers who are in the classrooms or in their own communities to registering their peers and cliges. but in states like wisconsin or texas where they passed these very superrestrictive voter i.d. laws. and i want to be careful about this. this is only these laws we take issue with where they're requiring identification that many people don't have in order to cast a ballot. and from the student perspective and the youth perspective, you know, we're very concerned. so for example in texas, they eliminated student i.d.'s as a form of identification that you can show at the polls. many out-of-state students who don't have driver's license from the state of texas because they're going to school there from somewhere else now have to have a different form of i.d. or get a texas i.d. and can no longer use their student identification card. same thing in wisconsi

like florida where there's a new law that really cracks down on nonpartisan voter registration, where the league of women voters, which is not, you know, a well-known subversive sect. it's the league of women voters have shut down their voter registration operation, and these kind of voter registration drives are often a way young people, poor people get to register to vote. >> in other words, i think what i hear you saying is just because there were shenanigans with some individuals who i think had a financial incentive to go out there and register, you know, the whole dallas cowboys, it doesn't mean those individuals actually or anybody showed up and actually voted in those instances. let me ask you about another one, if i might, because you just referenced florida, and i understand governor rick scott has signed into law in florida something that would eliminate the opportunity for voting the sunday before election day. why do you think that would have a disparate effect on different segments of society? >> you're seeing that in other states as well. you know, this phenomenon of early voting that we've seen in recent years is really very popular. it's a very successful innovation.

of those which directly affect young people. in the state of florida, for example, there's a law that passed that will make it harder for organizations like rock the vote and the league of women voters to do our work, adding additional levels of bureaucracy, putting financial burdens and potential fines for our young volunteers who are in the classroom or in their own communities to register their peers and colleagues. but in states like wisconsin or texas where they had passed these very super restrictive voter id laws, and i want to be careful about this. this is only, these laws that we take issue with where they're really restricted and they're requiring identification that many people don't have in order to cast a ballot. from the student perspective and just perspective, we are very concerned. so for example, in texas they eliminated student ids as a form of identification that you can show. many out of state simply don't have drivers license from the state of texas because they're going to school there from somewhere else now have to find a different form of id or get a texas id and call no longer use their student identification cards. same thing in wisconsin. so we are conc