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. >> reporter: these are absentee ballots in rockland county, new york.happening before our eyes. and kristen and pa ritricia are co-election officials here, a democrat and republican, working together. can i help you? >> sure. >> really? all right, rhonda, you're in. joe, you're in. >> reporter: but nationally, republicans and democrats are fighting. >> this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen. >> reporter: not only to turn out their voters -- >> he's throwing out every roadblock to suppress the vote. >> reporter: to make sure each vote is legitimate and counted -- >> sometimes when there are challenges, people will say wihout that stamp, we're not sure when it got here. >> reporter: what you're about to see is perhaps the most consequential moment in the journey of a typical mail-in ballot. >> the first thing we would do is scan it in, and then we're going to just view the signature. >> reporter: oh, wow. when election workers try to verify that a vote is genuine, by checking the signature of what's on file. >> reporter: we make a ruling. >> r

however, the democrats have filed a lawsuit to try to get rockland county to extend its hours tomorrowut down one of its centers due to a covid-19 exposure. >>> i'm kyung lah in phoenix, arizona at a suburb called tollitson, and we're seeing trickles due to the pandemic. over here is an early voting site. if you swing over this way in the parking lot where i'm standing, you see this white tent over here? that is a covid-19 testing site. so in the same location where you early vote, you can also get tested for covid. technically today is the last day to early vote, but this site and about a hundred others are going to stay open for so-called emergency voting here in maricopa county. i want you to take a look at this video from the elections department where we were, and we watched as these blue ballot boxes were rolled onto trucks along with ppe, all of them h d heading out to those 100 voting centers that will be rolled out on saturday and sunday. these voting centers will be own all weekend. as far as the ballot count, there are now, according to the secretary of state, 2.36 million b

trillion nationally that leaves, for example, thousands of people in my district in westchester and rocklandled with debt and not able to live on their own, owning a home or renting an apartment. we know we are on the brink of climate catastrophe because people have failed to act with the urgency that issues requires. so we need big structural changes to meet those challenges. that's why i'm so proud to be running and be part of what will be the most progressive congress in american history. >> let me ask you this, mondaire. i said that if elected, and you're in a democratic district. it is likely that you will be. you'll be the first black gay in congress. in my book that i just brought out, i did a whole chapter on we've got to get rid of homophobia in the black community. did you engage in having to deal with homophobia in your race because i think you winning that primary in and of itself shows that we are coming of age though it is not a black district so to speak. there is a large black populati population, that one day a gay black man would not have won a drea democratic primary in th

. >> these are absentee ballots in rockland county, new york. >> democracy happening before our eyes.it is. >> kristen and patricia are co-election commissioners here, a democrat and a republican working together. >> can i help you? >> sure. >> really? all right, rhonda, you're in. joe, you're in. >> but nationally, republicans and democrats are fighting. >> this is going to be a fraud like you've never seen. >> not only to turn out their voters. >> he is throwing up every roadblock to try and suppress the vote. >> but to make sure that each vote is legitimate and counted. >> and sometimes when there are challenges, people will say without that stamp, we're not sure when it got here. >> what you're about to see is perhaps the most consequential moment in the journey of a typical mail-in ballot. >> so the first thing we would do is scan it in and then we're going to just view the signature. >> oh, wow. >> when election workers try to verify that a vote is genuine, by checking the signature against what's on file. >> tricia and i would make a ruling. so it matches. >> while the commissi

now the zones included, those in the so-called red zone parts of brooklyn, queens and orange and rocklandounties, just north of the city. just north of new york city. that could also trigger still more widespread closings beyond schools but again the first time the governor has sort of make good on a threat, if you can make good on a following threat if you don't do what you're supposed to do and shut down and start doing things in an orderly way, that's it, i will take away all sorts of things. we'll keep a close eye on it. the news out of new york did not help the dow. another reminder, the virus pandemic, the effects still alive and well. meantime we want to go right to washington. hillary vaughn is following the confirmation hearings. day three right now for judge barrett. hillary, how is she doing thus far? reporter: neil, it has been interesting because we actually heard a new line of questioning today, not related to the affordable care act, not related to potential election cases. coming to senator sheldon whitehouse who raised concerns about loopholes that raise the potential for

you can't handle this virus in new york city different than westchester, different than rockland, differents responsible for everything. that's why when the question was posed to me who's responsible, i'm responsible. and that's the way it should be. the real template should have been the federal government was responsible. i believe that. this was a national pandemic. when it's national, it triggers the federal government. when i was in the federal government and there was a regional situation, the federal government took control. but, in the absence of a federal government, the state steps in, it's a statewide plan. the mayor, county executive, has no legal authority in this. now, they talk a lot, mike, because that's what politicians do, right? and every local politicians will talk about what they think. but it's all state authority. >> all right. the new book is american crisis leadership lessons from the covid-19 pandemic. governor andrew cuomo, thank you so much for being on this morning. >> thank you. >>> and early voting is also under way in illinois. the state board of elections ha