voters and that's one of the things that is really significant and younger voters played a real role in that i mean he would not president barack obama would not be president without the strength of voters under thirty and they are by simply voters you know of the population that has the right situation simply would not have won the primary and he would not be president united states today he also seems to be trying to expand beyond just that divide. the events of today in this last week he is. it's almost those part you know the post partisan is a nice buzz phrase right now but he almost it seems like he's actually trying to embrace that trying to be a bold bet that partisan fray do you think that that plays well would be to tibet to that generation post part of that post civil rights. i know it does at least certainly for more substantial segment of that generation one of the things that you know i did in the research for my book is i teamed up with suffolk university as political research center on a poll and it was one of the few polls actually ever been done s

we want to achieve a greater intent of the voter -- to know the intent of the voter, make the system as accessible as possible. we also took a look at new models of acquisitions. it is very much the norm today for a jurisdiction to purchase a system from a private vendor. typically of a proprietary system. are there new ways of approaching this? shattering the model and coming up with a completely different approach? and could that be done in san francisco or through partnerships? we are not alone in this topic. another very interesting process is going on in the county of los angeles. that county is actually one of the largest voting jurisdictions in the entire nation. larger than most states. they are engaged in a robust process -- of course, the outcome of the process is a noble, but the city, our department of elections -- we should monitor to them and cooperate with them to the extent possible -- the outcome of the process is unknowable. travis county, texas, also recently completed its own two- year process, looking at issues similar to what we did. our intent was to provide str

the league of women voters of san francisco would like to commend the citizen participants of the san francisco voting systems task force for their exemplary product at two years of diligent work, recommendations on voting systems for the city and county of san francisco. the league of women voters has determined that to insure integrity and voter confidence in elections, we support the implementation of voting systems and procedures that are secured, accurate, accountable, accessible, and transparent. the mission has in its own terms prioritized these things and provided the city of san francisco with a document which can serve as a sound guide to the improvement of current and future voting systems, a document which can also be used effectively as a resourced, even beyond our own city and county. we would at this time specifically endorse several recommendations in the report, which could be implemented in the near future. these are items 2.1.4.1, which include publishing all election records on the city's website while protecting the anonymity of each voter. specifically, tallies o

of tummy ache. is there aç voter fraud in thi country? no evidence of a big voter fraud problem in this country and there never has been. would these laws stop the minuscule amount of voter fraud that there is? no. the conviction rate for people impersonating other voters is slightly south of the conviction rate of unauthorized time travel and that's what photo i.d. would supposedly stop, so why aren't republicans letting people vote without photo i.d.s now? what is this for, what does this cure? where are republicans all across the country, all at the same time trying to make it harder to vote? it is an axium of politics that in a general election when voter turnout is high, that's bad for the republican party. the fewer people that cast votes in an election, the better for the republican candidate. any effort to depress voter turnout is a plus for the republican party, plus these laws make it harder for population groups that vote more democratic. the students who find it harder to vote in south carolina, they, coincidentally voted over

there was a lot of concern that that was the core of the voter's power to take matters into their ownds. i removed that out of respect for the fundamental right of voters to collect signatures and put something on to the ballot. in addition, we made a perspective. a lot of people were mistrustful and thought i had a secret agenda or secret list of things i wanted to go after. that was never the case. i put my money where my mouth was by making this a perspective. i also want to address a couple of criticisms i heard that frankly i do not think are meritorious. one is that we are somehow disrespecting the will of the voters. this is only going to go into effect if the voters say it goes into effect. this is the ultimate respect to the voters, asking them what they think. if the voters say no, i would respect that, but we should give them the opportunity. the second is that the board is going to start willy-nilly repealing or amending ballot measures. i think anyone who has been around this place knows that members of this board are going to be very ginger and conservative in terms of a

was one when they when they found it in new york they were allegations that thousands of thousands of voters it turns out that there were two i mean this is in wisconsin in two thousand and four dozens of votes were alleged to have voted twice no zero they when they finally tracked down dead voters in new jersey had the headline was among voters new jersey g.o.p. says dead people turns out there were no dead people injured in new jersey voting in georgia in fact the republicans claim there were fifty four hundred twelve votes from dead people turned out it was zero. you know i had gotten out i got i got page after page of this do you have any evidence you know scott walker is going to knock tens of thousands of people off the voting rolls in wisconsin is that worth saving the four or five phlogiston votes that might have been that have been prosecuted that state over the last twenty years ok the milwaukee county sheriff's office said that they did a study from two thousand and four to two thousand and eight and in the course of that study the arrow the impression that the outcome statewide e

my home state of virginia requires voter identification or a signature on an affirmation of identity form, which is a much better process. this year many other state legislatures are considering measures that would require voters to have an actual identification. voter i.d. may seem like a good way to keep voter fraud at a minimum, this type of requirement has serious unintended consequences. . mr. speaker, requiring a photo i.d. will make it a little more difficult for voters to exercise their right to vote. we should particularly be concerned if provisions like these have a disper ate impact on my -- desperate impact on my citizens. african-americans are three times more than others to lack a government-issued i.d. there will be unintended consequences where nuns were denied the right to vote because they couldn't produce a voter i.d. -- photo i.d. even though they were personally known to the election officials. now, it's obvious that voter i.d. laws will not prevent people from voting, but it creates another little barrier that will mean that a few potential voters will not get th

a candidate toys of black voters. that is what is at stake in some of the litigation. there other types of legal claims being filed in texas as well. >> david, how did they do it? what are those -- what do those maps look like where by some republican gains were realized in a potential latino district was not created? where is the action? >>>> i could play when a man wih the map all day if we had it, but you might be better asking an abstract artist to decipher what the texas draft looks like on the republican side. i think there is no question latinos have been grossly underserved by the redistricting process. even from a non-partisan point of view, the texas plan is a pretty egregiously clever way of diluting democratic voters, but also latino voters. particularly, in the significance of voting rights cases, in the dallas-for the worse -- fort worth area, where you have close to a 40% hispanic district, and that community has been split seven different ways under the republican proposal. that is clearly to work -- el

only 35% of voters think the economy is getting better. we'll see a rising number of people in our survey saying that they are losing income. these voters are feeling hammered by the economy. they want to hear present obama and democrats talk about the future and what their plans are to change things and get the middle class to keep jobs and moving overseas. that is a big issue for them and it changes the political structure in washington. they see lobbyists and special interest getting the breaks. democrats really need to address these concerns for these voters. host: york firm says it is about the message. -- your firm says it is about the message. guest: it is difficult. democrats and president obama made really tough choices. they have helped somewhat. most major economists say they have prevented a much greater recession. and have jumped -- and prevented jobs employment -- job unemployment from jumping higher. i think obama has done a good job and the economy would be much worse off if he did not take steps but voters don't want to hea

ranked-choice voting does not affect the adoption of ballot measures. when voters receive their ballot, either at a polling place or as an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards that contain contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked-choice voting contests, voters will receive a separate ranked-choice ballot card. the design of the ranked-choice ballot card and the instructions to rank three choices are new. the ranked-choice ballot is designed in a side-by-side column format that lists the names of all candidates in each of the three columns. when marking the ranked-choice ballot, voters select their first-choice candidate in the first column by completing the arrow pointing to their choice. for their second-choice, voters select a different candidate in the second column by completing the arrow pointing to their choice. for their third-choice, voters select a different candidate in the third column by completing the arrow pointing to their choic

is a pledge that candidates for office and house and senate members and presidents signed to the voters of their state and to the nation. the pledge isn't to americans for tax reform. it isn't to me. the american taxpayers have asked and elected a majority in the house of representatives and 41 members of the senate who ran, committing not to raise taxes. >> right. >> our friends, president obama, has said he won't try and solve the problem he created with his spending -- >> wait, wait, wait. what do you mean he created with his spend? you didn't just suggest our budget problem is because of president obama, did you, grover? >> well, see, on august 2nd, which is the new date that geithner gave us, he gave us a may date. now there's a new absolute date that he wasn't -- >> grover, let's have a true conversation here. you know better than that. you know we hit the debt limit on may 16th and you know the treasury secretary said, i can move things around until august 2nd. >> why are we hitting august 2nd? >> moving things around. let's get back to the point -- >> because obama spent -- >> are

in the 2008 exit polls, obama got 66% of voters under 30. now he has just 56% of the under 30's. good? maybe not good enough. another key in the anatomy, suburban voters. any 08 exit polls, 50% of suburbanites went for obama. now he's down to 141%. final will laveragee pin in the obama win n '08 he had 52% of independents. now he has just 43% of independents. john, you wrote game changer about how he did it last time. how do they put, the geniuses out there in chicago and washington, humenty dumpty together again? >> they will be happy to hear you calling them geniuses for sure. the place to start this conversation is with the fact there is i think a widespread agreement in the obama world that the election that's about to happen is going to be closer than the election that happened in 2008. they don't expect barack obama to win 53% of the popular vote this time. they're looking at a investigatery that looks much more like -- and a map that looks like the kerry/bush 2004 race. a lot of states they won before that were swing states they might not win again. it will be very, very cl

would be able to opt out of receiving their voter information pamphlets through the mailstead could receive them through e-mail or access them on the department of elections website. the benefits of this are severalfold. that our environmental. they also would save the city potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars at each election. we have a couple of amendments we would like to make. i think they have been circulated. chairperson kim: yes. we have them in front of us. could you read them into the record? >> the first one is the findings. it is lengthy. i can talk about why we added them. chairperson kim: briefly. >> the other thing we are adding -- the department of elections up the procedures shall provide visible notice to voters about these confidentiality provisions and circumstances win voter information might be disclosed. the findings were related to that amendment. supervisor elsbernd: this is an opt out? sometimes we like to do opt ins, but this is an opt out. >> this is an opt out to receiving the pamphlet by mail. they would be opting in at the same time t

chicago as an example of why we need protection against voter >> vote early and vote often, the chicago motto. okay, we have to take one more break. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multigrain cheerios... five whole grains, 110 calories. toi switched to a complete0, multivitamin with more. only one a day women's 50+ advantage has ginkgo for memory and concentration, plus support for bone and breast health. a great addition to my routine. [ female announcer ] one a day women's. >> time now for our hits and misses of the week, mary. >> this may be a little can bit after controversial miss. i'm giving a miss to the india officials after the terrible triple bombing in mumbai this week. they've seen five terror attacks, since the mid '90s, serious ones and indian politicians did little more than to say they try to do better next wee

voters in south carolina who don't have photo i.d.s. i'm sure she'll be able to pick them all up in her p.t. cruiser, though a lot of those voters are black, so she might get pulled over. but even then it is possible the wrong people could get elected. that's why we need something a little more selective than a photo i.d. i tell you what, these i.d. laws prove republican legislators are great judges of who should vote, so let's just cut out the middle man and let only republican legislators be voters. that way we will finally be certain that only the right people get elected. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] [cheerin] >> stephen: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. nation, we know the tone of our political discourse in washington hits a new low every day. how are we supposed to get past the partisan rancor when the democrats are complete [bleeped]. [laughter] thankfully one man in congress is standing up and saying enough. florida republican congressman and black david letterman allen west. [laughter] after west spoke on the house floor in support of the g.o.p.'s cut, cap and balance

chicago as an example of why we need protection against votere early and vote often, the chicago motto. okay, we have to take one more break. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. oh! let's do this. look who's early! [ female announcer ] prepare to ace your dental check-up. fight plaque and gingivitis and invigorate your way to better check-ups. new crest pro-health invigorating clean rinse. ♪ fare thee well ♪ farewell ♪ mr. gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >> time now for our hits and misses of the week, mary. >> this may be a little can bit after controversial miss. i'm giving a miss to the india officials after the terrible triple bombing in mumbai this week. they've seen five terror attacks, since the mid '90s, serious ones and indian politicians did little more than to say they try to do better next week and the indian citizens need to expect more attacks in the neighborhoods because they're in a bad one. this doesn't inspire

right now 19% of registered voters consider themselves part of the tea party movement, according to a fox news survey. that includes 25% republicans, 13 hers independents and 6% democrats. but 19% is not enough to carry the day on anything. and if the tea party is perceived by most americans as being unreasonable, it will not grow any larger. in fact, if a compromise on the debt is not reached, and the economy gets even worse, the tea party will be blamed. at this point in history the tea party could become a tremendous force for good in the country. but it could also evaporate. most americans do not like extremism in politics. we need a sane compromise. a tough economic reform in this

in polls, more than 98% of voters back the new constitution. critics said the referendum had been rushed through. our correspondence jesse elner, has been following events. >> not a lot of surprise among a lot of moroccans here that the referendum had been passed. in fact when i walked around this morning in several voting centers and spoke to people, i really had a lot of difficulty finding one voter who was voting no. all of people i spoke to, i could only find one young man who is posing the reforms, and he he chose not to vote. so it's also good to read a little bit behind the numbers, behind what it means to have 98% and 72% of voters turn out. you see that also means basically 30% of the 30 million eligible voters did not show up and actually boycotted the voting, which is about 4 million people. so there is also you know the side to look at and say the 4 million people have heard the calls to boycott this referendum. >> the bbc jesse elmer. now looking at some of the other news today and share prices in the united states have seen their b

voters in south carolina who don't have photo i.d.s. i'm sure she'll be able to pick them all up in her p.t. cruiser, though a lot of those voters are black, so she might get pulled over. but even then it is possible the wrong people could get elected. that's why we need something a little more selective than a photo i.d. i tell you what, these i.d. laws prove republican legislators are great judges of who should vote, so let's just cut out the middle man and let only republican legislators be voters. that way we will finally be certain that only the right people get elected. we'll be right back. [cheering and applause] impressive resume. i see you're flatulent in three languages. graduated top of your gas. [ male announcer ] got gas on your mind? your son rip is on line toot. [ male announcer ] try gas-x. powerful relief from pressure and bloating in a fast-acting chewable. gas-x. pressure's off. two hours till bedtime. let's move it. ooh. [ male announcer ] movies right when you want them. watch unlimited tv episodes and movies instantly, all for only 8 bucks a month from netflix. >> stephen: thank you very much.

has that also added to a lot of new voters that a lot of voters and communities they don't normally gettes from? >> it adds to a lot of new voters and what the republicans will say is that this is about preventing voter fraud. well, you know, voter fraud, i think one person said, voter fraud is as popular or is as likely to happen to you as getting hit by lightning. people don't fraudulently vote. it just doesn't happen. they are trying to prevent something that doesn't occur. >> let me suggest something that maybe show some thinking. karl rove wrote in the wall street journal, this is karl rove now, saying for example if african-american voters share of the turnout drops just one point, one point in north carolina, mr. obama's 2008 winning margin there is wiped out. two and a half times over. i mean, there is what karl rove wrote in the wall street journal two or three weeks ago. that if we just drop the black turn out by 1% of what happened in 2008, it flips it two and a half times over. and it changes the outcome of that state. and it changes the electoral map. that's real serious. y

. >> seems straightforward to us that it shouldn't be allowed but we wanted to let the voters of san francisco to decide how they feel and unbelievably the city has decided to bring a lawsuit to not even allow it to go to the ballot. >> an attorney argued circumcision is not a medical procedure. >>> in los angeles a street party invitation on twitter turned into a riot on hollywood boulevard. >> i got stung. >> it didn't hurt that bad. >> the party was held outside the chinese theater and the premier of electric daisy carnival experience. as they tried to clear the theater of overcrowding a riot erupted. no one got hurt but police police cars were damaged and two people arrested for vandalism. >>> the round up of commuter complaints is out. they survey state and local agencies and found many of the most common complaints had a common thread. >> in the examples of complaints many were related to the tough financial situations that consumers and businesses case. >> topping the list were auto related complaints and credit and debt for bank fees and bad mortgages. complaints about utilit

voters. one, they do decide elections and two, they are very angry right now. a couple ofe on the nbc wall street -- >> angrier. >> angrier. the right direction wrong track number is more negative among independent voter than it is among the entire ee lek tore rat at -- >> anything anti-washington. thank you both for coming in. it's getaway friday but not all of us are getting away. a first impression can go a long way. we'll tell you how this year's crop of presidential candidates are breaking with tradition when it comes to big introduction. our trivia question will be a difficult one. since 1900, how many states have had governors elected or re-electeded from nonmajor parties? elected is the key word. tweelt me at chuck todd or daily rundown with the answer. i'll probably do it a couple times if you pull this one off. i'll have the answer and more coming up after this. >>> well, you only get one chance to make a first impression, doesn't matter who you are and the media saturation what it is becomes even more critical when you're actually running for president. our poli

and you deal with these incidents known as proof of widespread voter fraud was my point fewer than twenty cases here and george bush spent millions of dollars looking for they went through thousands and thousands this is again you do not make it more difficult you make it as easy as possible for people to vote and it is not hard to root out voter fraud you couldn't it's done all the time we have to go to a quick for question here ninety seconds just a quick quick answer here will john boehner finish one hundred twelfth congress as the speaker of the us yes i think he will clearly he's had a difficult time with his caucus fighting with his caucus on this bill but i think his caucus will rally behind him and he will stay speaker you know yes he will have yes he will space and he will be he will be with. your people your. party and when the party's over you guys my fellow over. the coming two weeks are really going to dictate whether or not john boehner can stay in a speaker of the house i think that we're really going to see at least a challenge he may or may not finish ok and i put the odd

the pledge is not to americans for tax reform, it's the the voters of their state and the american peopled people hold them responsible. george herbert walker bush, bush 41 had a fairly reasonablely successful presidency. he ended the cold war without a lot of blood on the floor. >> stephen: absolutely. >> got iraq out of kuwait without occupying the place for the next 12 years and he had one small problem and this is that he raised taxes when he promised he wouldn't. and he lost his job. >> stephen: did he sign this? >> he did, indeed, yeah. >> stephen: did you wave this bloody shirt during that campaign to bring that guy down? >> i didn't need to. the american people did. >> stephen: did you show the american people the shirt? (laughter) did you distribute this to everyone in america? how do they get this? >> the media lets people know and voters know. so we share the pledge, obviously. since you took the pledge three years ago when you were looking to possibly run for president.... >> stephen: looking to run a run? i ran for president, sir. (laughter) and it was only... (cheers and app

look, do republicans even stand a chance in wisconsin unless they make these kind of draconian voter to me the whole concept of public service, of serving the public, has moved really to the right, as part of the national conversation. after all, if five years ago or ten years ago we had been talking about dmv offices being open only 20 hours a week or state parks or airports or something like that, i as a professor of public administration, i think we've lost the concept of serving the public. that every public office ought to be open 40 hours a week and there ought to be adequate funding for it. so the recall that you're mentioning that are coming up two tuesdays from now and three tuesdays from now, that's really a referendum if people like what's going on or don't like what's going on. the conventional wisdom right now is that the tide of public opinion is going for democrats. but you have to say that republican incumbents have an advantage in every election, just like all other incumbents. >> well, so, this show has talked a lot about exactly that question of the public good. wh

s, early voter registration. all of those are caught up and shaped very much by the political and partisan struggles that exist in this country. instead, we will be focusing on one aspect of that, namely redistricting. i think it is also important because of some of the new initiatives that have been taken on the redistricting process. perhaps the most interesting and visible is the switch to an independent citizens commission in the state of california, which is unfolding as we speak. david wasserman among others has reminded us how little time over there has been in the california u.s. house delegation over the last decade. when we had three truly dramatic electoral swings between the parties. simply, the state of california was insulated from that process. the question becomes, does that game change? now florida passed a couple of initiatives that have tried to impose some discipline on that process. right now, the swing state of florida has 19 republican members of the house and five democrats as i recall. it may be

>> the taxpayer pledge is a candidates for office and house and senate members sign to the voters of their state and to the nation. the pledge isn't to americans for tax reform. it isn't to me. the american taxpayers have asked an elected majority in the house of representatives and 41 members of the senate who ran committing not to raise taxes. >> right. >> our friend, president obama, has said that he won't try and solve the problem he created with his spending unless people -- >> wait a minute. he created with his spending. you didn't suggest that our budget problem is because of president obama, did you, grover? >> well, let's see. on august 27nd -- now there's a new absolute date that he wasn't -- >> right. >> grover, let's start this conversation over. you know what that is. you know that we hit the debt limit on may 16th and you know that the treasury secretary said i can move that to august 2nd. >> right. >> let's have a real conversation. >> the new date, why are we hitting august 2nd? >> because. you know that as well a as i do. let's get back to the point. >> because obama

i think the issue with that has frankly been the feasibility of getting voter approval of that tax. it would be a new tax. i'm sure you know that's come on and off of the books. but for a recent memory, that tax hasn't existed. there are good arguments on policy grounds for that revenue source as opposed to others, and that it would potentially provide a price incentive for people to alter their consumption of resources, but i think it would be truly a hard lift to get that type of a measure passed by the voters. the second response to that in terms of why we went with the sales tax versus the residential u.u.t. or the other options that were out there, we did think that this provided something of a unique opportunity, and i think there are also concerns with the sales tax on policy grounds to a certain extent, brothe in terms of the impact potentially on spending and the impact on to what extent the burden is shared on different income groups within the city. but we did think this was a pretty unique opportunity where you had the rate declining by a percentage point and we could pl

only 35% of voters think the economy is getting better. 'll see a rising number of people in our survey saying that they are losing income. these voters are feeling hammered by the economy. they want to hear present obama and democrats talk about the future and what their plans are to change things and get the middle class to keep jobs and moving overseas. that is a big issue for them and it changes the political structure in washington. they see lobbyists and special interest getting the breaks. democrats really need to address these concerns for these voters. host: york firm says it is about the message. -- your firm says it is about the message. guest: it is difficult. democrats and president obama made really tough choices. they have helped somewhat. most major economists say they have prevented a much greater recession. and have jumped -- and prevented jobs employment -- job unemployment from jumping higher. i think obama has done a good job and the economy would be much worse off if he did not take steps but voters don't want to hear

now, the same poll shows that 76% of voters in ohio oppose cutting spending on medicare, 77% of missouri voters, 71% in montana, and 69% of minnesotans feel exactly the same way. i mean, folks, those are a massive majority of purple state voters who are really done with this republican plan of we think it will stymie the economy if we raise taxes on the rich folk. democrats need to hammer the righties with these numbers every day. it works. republicans need -- kind of like shiny objects like maybe a casey anthony trial to distract the american people. the facts are not on their side. but for a guy like the drug sister to claim liberals don't care about the life of a 2-year-old, and the murder of a child is about as low as it gets, but you see, they'll stoop to anything to make their case. democrats have always fought for and wanted social and economic justice for all americans. and, of course, we talk about the income disparity in this country all the time. how can they be good for america? i really want any state representative or any state senator from any state in the union to come up