mr. richie, i'll ask you. some other unlike some other democratic leaning counties across the state, the republicans on your county board orally joined with you in wanting to expand early voting hours in the county. why do you think they orally went along with that when republican in a lot of other democratic counties were voting no on that? >> well, i think that they knew it was the right thing to do at the time they cast that vote. to let the people of the county vote. we had made that commitment to them in two previous board meetings where they had appeared, and the republican board members voted to allow weekend voting. >> let me ask this. to either of you. in terms of the technical matter here at hand, the secretary of state issued some guidelines about essentially standardizing some of the early voting hours, and it seemed from the most people's reading of those guidelines that he was saying there would be no early voting on weekends and there would be some minimal expanded early votings -- extending ear

richie sr. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> mr. lieberman, let me start with you.mportant was early voting on weekends in your county, in montgomery county, the last time around in the 2008 presidential race? >> it was exceptionally important. you know, i can give you some numbers, we had 28,000 people that voted early. of those, one third of them voted them voted on weekends. in fact, there was the weekend beforehand, in which we had almost 8,000 people, the weekend before the election. i remember standing out on the lawn, and because there was so many people that they actually were lining up on the lawn, and we -- there was a college student that had a guitar and he was playing songs, and my republican counterpart on the board at the time looked at me with tears in his eyes and he said, this is what america is about. and he was right. it is. early voting in montgomery county is critical. >> let me ask about working with your republican colleagues here. obviously, all the elections boards have two democrats and two republicans, and mr. ritchie, i'll ask you. under

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mr. hall took the test. he didn't take the test. >> with his first line of defense shot down, higgins pivots to explain ziggy's actions. >> richie, how many times have you been up for parole in the last 18 years? >> twice. >> what's happened each of those times? >> they've continued me because of something i've done. >> why would you purposely try to ditch your parole? >> because i'm scared of getting out. >> you've been at the program before? >> yes, sir. >> if you didn't want to make parole, could you say, i don't want to go? >> i don't know if you would understand, but a convict saying that he's not ready to get out, i'd feel like i would be ostracized. >> is that it? >> yes, sir. >> the lieutenant's decision comes swiftly. >> guilty of the charge of refusal, attempt to alter a drug screen, recommend five days penal segregation, assess a fee of $25, $4 fine. recommend a job drop. you want to appeal this? >> yes, sir. >> yes, sir, i don't think the $25 is appropriate. >> i can suspend that. i will suspend the $25. >> okay. >> and richie would like a little time to get his affairs in order before he has to go away for five days.

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