application and say under penalty of perjury. to get absentee ballot in south carolina a utility bill or bank statement. these are absentee ballots from troy new york where eight democrats indicted allegingly forging ballots. there will be a trial on tuesday of two officials there. indiana was one of the first states in the nation to have a photo i.d. attorney general there told us there could be a real problem with absentee ballots. here is what he said. the biggest problem we ve seen is in the absentee balloting. people handling the ballots. people helping people vote. so that distance voting, getting the same protections that we have inside of the ballot box, inside of the voting booth, is really something that is harder to do when people are voting absentee. reporter: so you need a photo i.d. to show up. don t need it for a absentee ballot. bill: will the voter law hold up in south carolina? reporter: we ll have to see.
he could not. this voter laws exempt the one area with voter fraud, which is absentee balloting. it s the only conceivable place. no one s showed up with mickey mouse as their i.d. and tried to vote. it s curbing people posing as other people at the poll. but absentee tends to be a more republican form of voting so they leave it alone. if you look at the supreme court this issue came up from indiana s really restrictive law in 2008 and a lot of people were hoping that the court would say this is an area where you re con flating economic prereck kwiss with voting which has been very disfavored in the court. instead they said this is a reasonable way, states will have the discretion to decide. i don t think that having a a car has anything to do with voting, but a lot of times if you don t have a car you don t get a majority i.d. or driver s
place and absentee balloting some place else. do you think it happens? it s the perfect voting crime. no national data base would pick up a voter in new york and what is to stop them from doing it? daily news documented a number of years ago. 46,000 people registered in both states and they nailed people ghasting the ballot in the same election in new york and florida. eric: the help america vote act is supposed to correct this. bob, you have been in politics a long time. how could fox news go to the board of elections and find absentee ballot and find the same name voting in person in new york city? it was a testimony by one of the democratic operatives in troy where they went in and raided, took advantage of the
instances of voter fraud, example of the absentee balloting occurring in crowen county where a group home of mentally disabled people was instructed how to vote. in some cases, staff people were voting for residents of the home. eric: that is astounding. we are getting reports of that, too. they are looking into that allegation there. you talk about the absentee ballots. ballot security. look, in connecticut, a close race. thursday night they found a bag of ballots on the floor. we hear the reports over and over again. why isn t there seemingly more security in some of the races across the country, especially when you are dealing with absentee ballots? well, the integrity of the process is very important. the security of the ballots we received a report two days ago of ballots distributed on election day outside of polling places. apparently we don t have
unofficial start of the campaign. that was the unofficial start of his free fall. you saw that sharron angle has moved into the lead and there is a discussion about whom might replace them. it s worth noting that half the votes in nevada have already been cast. early voting and absentee balloting started three weeks ago so there is already a lot of votes in the bank. democrats have been boasting a lot of early voting seems to benefit them. but the number isn t as important as the percentage of early voting. the democratic absentee is not of you to snuff the way they would need for reid to hold on. this is potentially foreboding situation. gregg: looking at the larger picture. republicans hope to win a majority. they have to pick up ten seats? four seats on the way already.