the republicans win twenty percent of the vote the green party wins twenty percent of the vote the libertarians get ten percent of the vote and also socialist got ten percent too so democrats since they won forty percent of the vote they would get forty percent of the seats in congress republicans get twenty percent so they get two seats the greens won twenty percent as well so they get you know twenty percent of the seats and since the libertarians and the socialists each won ten percent they'd each get ten percent in this case one seat so now we fill ten seats in congress in a way that's far more performer all of congress that way this far more proportional to how the voters voted rather than just a winner take all. and smaller parties like the greens and libertarians didn't have to have as much money to try to win they just needed to get a certain threshold to have a voice in government. the important thing about proportional representation like this is that the lowers the barrier for third fourth and he was fifth or eighth parties have access to our government and once multiple parties get

the report. i was tasked to look at a very analytical point. why are people voting the way they are voting? that gets away from a statistical analysis. i did not include that information for that reason. i feel that we addressed what we could given the parameters the commission gave me. i have not had a chance to look at what was presented for the final point. it is always something we could do as a supplemental later on. supervisor campos: in terms of the point that mr. fried was making and you were talking about jurisdictions where they have elections that are tied to statewide offices do you have any response to that? >> new york city, for example, has september elections and even years and odd years. the election for mayor for example, there are no federal elections on the ballot. in minnesota, they use september elections in odd years. it seems to me including those is comparing apples to apples. in terms of the state primary, all i was suggesting was using the most recent 2012 data because you are already using state primary. you already have said in the report. it stopped at 2010. inc

this is how the senator has voted. and it's not in the interest of working families here in massachusetts, not in the interests of small businesses. i went to washington to do better than that. >> response. >> john, she fails to point out that the oil votes and energy producers are rejected in a bipartisan manner. both democrats and republicans rejected this approach is because they recognize in the middle of the three inaccurate recession at the high cost of energy right now, people pay more at the pump, more than double. we also imagine this winter when he paid a oil bill, it will be skyrocketing. so to do something right now change the policy in the middle of the three recession, it's not the proper approach. if you want a comprehensive discussion, let's do it right now. i've are devoted to close the ethanol subsidy. to say that the first answer every time she suggested raising taxes. >> response. >> i'm concerned how the senator has voted. he has voted to billions of dollars of your tax money should go to the oil in

it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching every voter in the state. >> the eyes of the nation were on california in 1911, when we all voted. it was the sixth and largest state in the nation to approve this. one decade later, we have full voting rights in the united states. helping newly enfranchised women, a new political movement was founded. >> starting in the 1920's, it was a movement created by the suffragettes moving forward to getting the right to vote. all of the suffragettes were interested in educating the new voters. >> non-partisan, not endorsing candidates >> -- endorsing candidates, getting the right to vote and one they have

the senate voted down the republican plan on a bipartisan basis by a vote of 45-54. the senate passed the democrats' plan by a vote of 51-48. since then the house of representatives also voted on this matter and the house sent the senate its revenue measure. now that we have the, have had the debate, the votes, it's time to go to conference with the house. the senate has voted and so has the house. it's time for us to resolve our differences. we believe that the tax extenders should not apply to people making more than $250,000 a year. we should extend it for people making less than $250,000 a year. so let's have a conference on this. this process would be important. unfortunately, i'm sorry to say, mr. president, my republican friends often place roadblocks in the way of routine senate business. it wasn't long ago this would be routine. last week moody's said it would probably cut america's credit rating if congress couldn't reduce long term deficit reduction. the bill congress passed in july is a big part of dealing with fiscal cliff and the american people deserve

absolutely right in the days gone by before the passes the voting rights act and. when they passed poll taxes when they passed grandfather clauses when they passed all the things that will prevent you from being able to vote they didn't say black folks either but we knew very well those were the jim crow laws of days gone by we say now with the same guys we have the same kind of program put in place to prevent millions of americans being able to vote because of their race because their income because of the gender because of this student status because their retirement status because they don't have the proper id to be able to participate in the voting process according to the brennan center eleven million americans will not be able to vote in this upcoming election if there are states that require them to meet that very high standards of having those state issued very stringent photo i.d.'s to be able to come to the polls and participate and by and large who are those eleven million people they are african-americans twenty five percent of them out of five. african-

george bush won for these arm of the vote. -- 40% of the boat. -- vote. now romney is pulling at best in the mid-20's. his own campaign has said they need to reach 30% in order to be competitive in the states or the latino vote will be critical. what the republican party has done is lurch to the right instead of george w. bush, john mccain. let's reach out and let's make immigration reform something we are for. he has promised a veto. he is for radical policy description, and the idea of making life so miserable that immigrants are purged from the country. this lurch to the right is hurting badly. their strategy means the southwest is out of reach because of this. they pulled out of new mexico. they have a shot in colorado and nevada. essentially, the hispanic strategy has been let's talk about the economy. the cuban americans are in florida and hope they can peel off enough of them. maybe that will be the trick. the fastest-growing group are the non-portrait in immigrants for whom this is a defining issue. i suspect he is glad to have a hard time winning

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going to vote republican. the swing voters don't care even if they are pro-choice or against citizens united, they are not motivated to vote so the candidates don't talk about it. >> it's interesting. we just completed a poll and found different results. in fact, a wide majority of the people do care about the court, are interested in the court, i think because of citizens united. perhaps they paid more attention around the decision of obama care. not only is there greater interest in the court, but there's also growing concern about the corporate tilt of the supreme court and the fact this is a supreme court that finds in case after case involving big corporations that they should retain power at the expension of the people. there is quite a lot of -- >> i actually think that's an interesting angle. the reason the court has been so -- has loomed to low in political life and the moments it's been a big election issue is because of social issues. i think primarily because of roe. it's because of roe. in some ways,

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but he didn't get the electoral vote. >> we remember 2000 for butterfly ballots but al gore won the popularthe electoral college, so he didn't become president. >> eliot: you don't want the president just focusing on those states that are in play, swing states, but a state that is a swing states almost necessarily gets more presidential attention, and attention from congress. >> sure, and i don't think anyone is saying that swing states or that any state should or shouldn't get necessary attention. no one is saying that ohio is unimportant or pennsylvania is unimportant, and the president shouldn't be paying attention to them. it's just simply disproportionate attention that doesn't makes season or when overall national policy gets distorted to help one particular state or one particular tiny cause. >> eliot: there is a proposal to eliminate the electoral college in terms of outcome even without a constitutional amendment. that's a crazy system. can you explain it quickly. >> lyle' do my best. >> eliot: you're a lawyer. >> it might drive everyone way when a lawyer describes it. it's nationa

are deploying teams of lawyers and states around the country to challenge right wing anti voting laws the voter protection teams as they're called are monitoring any new law changes putting pressure on local election officials and training poll watchers to keep an eye on any shenanigans come election day it's a crime as such efforts are necessary in america the beacon for democracy around the world with the republican party committed to kicking millions of largely democratic voters off the rolls by november one of the choices there i'm joined now by hilary shelton director of the washington bureau and senior vice president for advocacy and policy at the end of. a nonpartisan organization hilary shelton welcome good to be with you today thank you for joining us tonight attorney general holder in a moment of candor i think he went off script referred to these laws that have been promoted by largely the american legislative exchange council. which was founded by a guy who said i don't want everybody to vote but in any case he's referred to these laws as poll taxes if they are such how ar

i didn't vote for it simply because it would give the port money. and i certainly department vote for it for any kind of side deal. i voted for this project because it is a good and appropriate project. the facts today are exactly what they were several months ago, when eight members of this board voted to support eight washington. so what's changed since then? well, opponents of the project have gathered 31,000 signatures. we don't know from the department of elections how many were valid. we were simply informed that at least 19,000 and some odd, the minimum required, are valid. we know that there were at least that many. there was somewhere between 19,000 and 31,000. we know from campaigns you don't ever achieve 100% validity. i tip my hat to opponents for running this campaign and gathering these signatures. this has been alluded to and this is a critique of the ballot measures in california that you can collect signatures for just about anything. we've seen on the ballot proposal through signatures to create the alcatraz peace center, to ban cir

voting. a fair comparison with the alternatives would show ranked- choice voting does quite well in this regard. i would encourage you to either provide a fairer comparison or to take that topic out of the report altogether. thank you very much supervisor campos: next speaker. >> good afternoon. i was very thankful to see that all three of the proposed repeals of ranked-choice voting did not go to the ballot this year. i want to reiterate what i wrote in an e-mail to the board of supervisors about to the votes that happened a couple of weeks ago. even the executive branch, even the mayor's office, it is crucial to have ranked-choice voting because when you have a runoff, even if you had ranked- choice voting before the runoff, you create a situation where big money can dominate and win because all they have to do is get past that 51% mark. the more money they spend, the less likely it is that the voters will decide and money will decide instead. a lot of people reference the 2003 race. what i remember about the 2003 race is because it was a runoff and because there was the threat of a green par

vote. they are not worth the color if they don't vote. [cheers and applause] the african-american credentials need to be smashed. that is an insult to the ancestors of the people who brought us to where we are right now. there would be no black caucus but for the black men and women who fight and died, that we may have an opportunity to gather in washington, the third 242 members of the congressional black caucus. so we are launching on the 25th of this month, national voter registration dale over the country, at least in areas where we have a black member of congress. we will have a rally at the election boards in all of these cities than in kansas city being one of them, will have huge concert at the top entertainers in the country. african american entertainers. at the register to vote come you come in free. if you're not registered, you can come register and then coming for you. if you haven't had a change of address, you can show up anywhere and coming free. we've got to do everything we can to get people energized and understanding w

the person whose vote is suppressed. it is those who wear the uniform. on't get to vote as you alluded to. they vote once. military men and women have the most flexibility. >> and it is convenient for them . they don't get to vote twice but once. >> ohio is among the 32 states and the district of columbia that allows them to cast a early ballot without giving a reason. democrats are arguurg that given the military living overseas, special consideration is unfair. why is that unfair, mark? >> it is unfair to say some votes matter more. republicans living in switzerland get to vote where as blacks living in cleveland don't? we all have a equal right to vote. >> why -- what about the other states who decide when and where those votes will be cast. what is wrong with that. >> ohio should allow early voting. >> and decide if the military is involved. everyone has equal right. ben said they shouldn't. and republicans said they shouldn't. >> that's not what i said. mark. >> go ahead, ben. >> let me make it very clear. the white house knows that this affects 90,0

opponents of the group strongly disagree saying, quote, organizers of true the vote want to make the ence of voting like driving and seeing the police following you. the group's involvement adds more debates in states where already contentious legal fights are being fought over voting laws. in battleground ohio, early voting heavily favored by democrats and african-american voters is under fire. for example, back in 2008, in montgomery county, 28,000 early voters turned out in person and one-third voted on the weekends. ohio republican secretary of state claims he wants to make voting in ohio uniform, easy, fair and secure while pushing to kill early voting. he's now the subject of a lawsuit for firing officials who refused to follow his early voting ban. in another swing state, iowa, where the latino population jumped 92% in the last 11 years, a lawsuit is moving forward on the issue of voter eligibility. the lawsuit accused iowa secretary of state matt schultz of pushing a set of rules to check the citizenship status of 3,500 voters in the state. on friday, a state judge put those r

the congress gets the other votes. : does the congress have any responsibility for job creation? how can the president get anything passed when they want him to fail? now that the conventions are over, the traditional bob we have sinned, the headline is the betting bump. the president at 46%. -- where the battle state's bar. michigan, ohio, virginia, north carolina, florida, and in new hampshire. these are the states that will determine whether the president is reelected. the president has 221 of votes. mitt romney has 191 leaving 126 votes in these doesn't toss up states. >> good morning. this is a good show a about the crisis. the reason i say that is because we have been having that as one of your callers said before a long time. we have not had a balanced bulked -- a balanced budget. if the people do not realize congress -- we have to change congress. republicans are not going to be able to vote either. once the congress sells us out to the mega millionaires, they will not be able to vote. anything they go against t

the war in iraq. amy goodman: you voted in-three days after september 11, 2001, to give president bush the authority to retaliate in a vote that was 420 to 1. you have described it was one of your toughest votes. talk about how you decided to do that. rep. john lewis: i was very disturbed about what happened on 9/11. and when i look back on it, if i had to do it all over again, i would have voted with barbara lee. it was raw courage on her part. so, because of that, i don't vote for funding for war. i vote against preparation for the military. i will never again go down that road. amy goodman: and what do you say to those who say, "then you're not supporting the military. you're not supporting the soldiers, the troops"? rep. john lewis: i support the soldiers. when i see young men in uniform, i say, "thank you for your service." and i tell them, "i want all of you to come home." i tell them to their faces. i see them in the airports. i see them in washington. i say, "it's time for you to come home." amy goodman: president obama your book begins with a chapter on faith. many of the great civil rights le

to the winner of the national popular vote no matter who wins the state. seven other states have passed laws to do the same thing. but the pact would take effect until their ranks double. the complaints, except for fund-raisers, the candidates don't campaign in roughly 40 of our 50 states. because they're not those all important swing states. visited over and over again. >> thank you so much, florida. >> hello, virginia. >> i need ohio to help me become the next president. >> we win colorado, i will get four more years. >> i think our founding fathers had it right. >> jeff: republican new jersey state representative allison says even though 62% of americans say they would support replacing the electoral college with a national popular vote, the current system ensures against big city domination. >> what i believe is that you will have large urban areas like los angeles and chicago determining the outcome of the elections. >> she also considers the popular vote fact an end run around mending the constitution. >> they don't have the votes so they're trying t

by the difficulty of trying to vote, itself, that the election outcome is affected by the difficulty of voting. then maybe the smooth running of the process of voting doesn't make a huge difference in the outcome in states when the result is a blowout, but in 2008, as you heard the tea party guy say, the election in north carolina was decided by a teeny, teeny, teeny, tiny margin of 14,000 votes. with the margin that slim, and remember, the polls right now in north carolina are straight up, a straight-up tie, with a margin that tight, anything that makes it harder to vote in north carolina could change the outcome in north carolina and therefore change the outcome of the presidential race. anything that makes it harder, either because people are told they are dead when they are not and have to prove otherwise or the process of lots of people having to go through that process slows everything down for everybody else or because the effort and attention toward running the election has been diverted so the elections board h

so the first time around, when you voted the majority of you all voted, that was on you. just like when we came here and told you what was good for another area in the bayview, and you all favored the rogue developer called -- at that time we collected 33,000 signatures. and after getting the certification, we had our city attorney nullify them. this is a process. and like the first speaker said, who has served our city well, she said let's do the right thing. now, let me mention about california pacific medical center. they had a group called -- or whatever. and just a couple of days ago, they stopped all action. and i'm saying this because promises are made about jobs, internship, this, that, and the other. promises are just made -- lives over there and not -- thank you very much. >> president chiu: thank you very much. next speaker. >> -- on the left, david elliott lewis. welcome back from your well-earned break. you know, i have mixed feelings about this project, eight washington. but -- and i'm sure it would be wonderful for the representatives who live there, probabl

this is a nasty campaign cut back the black vote, anger up the white vote. roud of. a strategy which will go down into the history books for all the disgustingly obvious reasons. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. don't forget the msnbc documentary "barack obama: making history" tonight at 10:00 eastern. "politicsnation" with al sharpt

late last week, a federal judge ruled against the state's early voting. then the secretary of state said he's just not going to comply because it would only serve to confuse voters. then the same judge who reinstated the weekend voting ordered houston to appear in court this thursday. then he backed down, issued a formal apology, but that's not the end of it. now mike says he will repeal the judge's photoing and tried eliminate early voting the weekend ahead of the election. folks, this battle is going to continue. hawaii is doing this differently, what's going on? >> ohio, just like florida, eliminated the weekend voting which is early voting. we know that in places like in ohio, 56% of them were african-american. we know in ohio and florida, this is where you sad souls to the polls where churches when together and voted in unity. ohio decides that they're not listening to that court. obama for america filed that case and they didn't want to listen to it. >> i want to play a little history here. ohio is having to battle around early voting. we have pennsy

votes. that is almost double the 33 votes he needs to win. a win in any of the other would just be icing on the president's victory cake. of course, the election is not being held today. there are more than seven weeks to go and three debates before the elections. the polls also reveal that most people have already made up their minds about how they are going to vote. numbers are not looking good for mitt romney. neither is the news. governor romney has spent the election trying to convince us that his background as a businessman uniquely qualifies him for the job of executive and chief in charge of our nation and its aisliling economy. executive and chief is only part of the position he is applying for. he is also commander in chief in charge of the u.s. military and chief of state. in his audition for those two roles, mitt romney has performed horribly. first, there was his cold war throwback in march when he called russia our number one geopolitical faux. his gaffes about london's political head and no good commander in chief would forget t

ohio is having the battle around early voting. pennsylvania with the i.d. sten for a moment to -- to congressman john lewis, who spoke about what it took to get voting rights in this country, and it's such a powerful moment, from the dnc, talking with msnbc's own andrea mitchell, take a listen. >> i would never forget the three young men in mississippi african-americans, they died by trying to encourage other people to become registered, and it would be an affront for what they died for and all of the people that struggled for us to allow people to keep people today from registered and voting. >> all right. i want to set that against a new ad that the state of pennsylvania is playing, about getting your -- about getting your voter i.d. john lewis, saying it would be an affront to our history, but here is what pennsylvania is saying about the requirements to get a proper i.d. >> if you care about it this election. >> if you care about this election. >> if you want a voice. >> if you want to make a difference. >> if you want to vote, then show it. >> if you ca

base, confuse the middle and suppress the vote of the left. so we're going to shift our conversation to romney's strategy of confusing the middle. obviously been very evident. we've talked about it earlier. if you're looking for a clear explanation on any tough issue from either mitt romney or paul ryan, i'm sorry to tell you that they're just like your bad college boyfriend who never gave. >> straight answer. you heard from romney earlier in the show. here's ryan. >> you and mitt romney are proposing $5 trillion in tax cuts. you're proposing to increase defense spending by $2 trillion. explain to me how that adds up and you can cut the deficit? >> neither of those numbers are accurate number one. number two we're talking about revenue neutral tax reform. meaning not losing revenue but changing the way we raise revenue by plugging loopholes in tax shelters enjoyed by higher income earners. >> jennifer: of course, he never says which loopholes they intend to plug. he'll tell you after the election, they say. they don't want you to know their pl