it comes to voter suppression. what happens there doesn t stay there. so when you see proof of citizenship laws that force people to show a copy of their birth certificate when they register to vote in georgia and alabama, those laws spread to kansas and other states outside of the south. i don t carry a birth certificate around with me walking down the street. these laws are aimed at preventing voter registration drives. i think there s a segment of our elected officials who have decided as the electorate gets more diverse and younger instead of trying to compete for those votes which is what you re supposed to do, they re trying to squash those voices. and we don t think that s the best way. i m glad you re here and on top of this story. i promise you senator and dale we ll stay on top of it. dale ho and senator nina turner. this hardball, the place for politics.
as reported on msnbc.com, quote, there s little question that the law hits minorities especially hard. blacks make up 23% of the state s registered voters but 34% of those don t have an i.d. issued by the dmv. studies show black voters in north carolina are also more likely than whites to vote early. already the republican led house and senate in columbus passed a bill that makes it easier to purge voter rolls and reduces the number of voting machines. republican governor john kasich is expected to sign it. and here s what s coming up. cuts to early voting, the end of same-day registration, and making it harder to vote absentee. what do they have in common? they re purposing, swing states, have republican-controlled legislatures, and they re making it harder to vote especially if you re a democrat. dale ho and nina turner. running for secretary of state which would have a lot of say in
suppression in the south the south is not like las vegas when it comes to voter suppression. what happens there doesn t stay there. so when you see proof of citizenship laws that force people to show a copy of their birth certificate when they register to vote in georgia and alabama, those laws spread to kansas and other states outside of the south. i don t carry a birth certificate around with me walking down the street. these laws are aimed at preventing voter registration drives. i think there s a segment of our elected officials who have decided as the electorate gets more diverse and younger instead of trying to compete for those votes which is what you re supposed to do, they re trying to squash those voices. and we don t think that s the best way. i m glad you re here and on top of this story. i promise you senator and dale we ll stay on top of it. dale ho and congresswoman turner. this hardball, the place for
1% or 2% difference. purdue won that race. so when you re talking about those kinds of margins, these voter i.d. laws, even if it s only 1% or 2%, it really makes a difference. but i think on the other side it does seem to be making it seems to be inciting black votes to go to the polls. they are not going to be denied the power of the ballot. nia-malika henderson and dale ho, thank you both for joining he m tonight. thank you. thanks a lot. coming up, the political clowns in the republican party. and in the rewrite tonight the bulger brothers, whitey and billy, finally reunited. with nothing left to lose. go anywhere in the world, but you had to leave right now, would you go? man: oh i can t go tonight woman: i can t. hero : that s what expedia asked me. host: book the flight but you have to go right now. hero: (laughs) and i just go? this is for real right? this is for real? i always said one day i d go to china, just never thought it d be today. anncr: we re giving a
there have only been two alleged cases of voter fraud in the last ten years in north carolina. so this law clearly going out of the scope of that whole idea of voter suppression. the irony here is that republicans are the party of rolling back restrictions. right? let 1,000 markets bloom, freedom and all that stuff. and this one certainly puts more restrictions on people s ability to vote. it will be interesting to see what somebody like kate hagen says about this and her framing around it. she s up in 2014. and what all southern democrats sort of talk about when they talk about voter suppression. dale, i want to go to that specific point that nia just raised about the kids who were turning 18, say, the day before election day or on election day. because they will not be allowed