refusing to do the elections because it s just too much. they don t want to be in the paper because they made some small error. now if you don t put something in this corner or you don t seal the bag in this way, they ve just done so many different pieces of legislation including on top of that voter i.d. the legislation to take away weekends and evening voting. this is going to hurt rural, suburban, and urban wisconsin because people early vote. we should be encouraging people to vote and expanding the right to vote. ruth, this is anything but the old progressive wisconsin that you grew up in. no question. what about these numbers? rasmussen poll normally favors the republicans. do you get that sense out on the beat in wisconsin that this guy is in trouble? this came out after the e-mail dump you mentioned, after all the news about walker refusing to answer questions,
what s your beef here? we re not dealing with this problem in a vacuum. we know what happens when we don t have extensive early voting in ohio. the world has a videotape of what it looked like in 2004 in ohio when we didn t have evening voting, when we didn t have voting on the sunday before elections. and this is predictable what s going to happen. and so there has clearly been a consensus among the voters themselves that they want to have these expanded hours because they have been using them in overwhelming numbers and, chris, it s been working. we ve had several elections in a row where we haven t had long lines at the polls, where people have been able to exercise their franchise. the problem from the republican point of view is they haven t always gotten the results that they want from those elections and so they want to change the rules again. i want to play the ohio gop chairman who appeared earlier to make the argument that it was too costly. take a listen. having govern
fitzgerald. ed, husted says, look, we ve got a ton of early voting and republicans in the state are saying it s very expensive to keep this open. they re also saying this is bipartisan consensus, we solicited opinions. what s your boeef here? we re not dealing with this problem in a vacuum. we know what happens when we don t have extensive early voting in ohio. the world has a videotape of what it looked like in 2004 in ohio when we didn t have evening voting, when we didn t have voting on the sunday before elections. and this is predictable what s going to happen. and so there has clearly been a consensus among the voters themselves that they want to have these expanded hours because they have been using them in overwhelming numbers and, chris, it s been working. we ve had several elections in a row where we haven t had long lines at the polls, where people have been able to exercise their franchise. the problem from the republican point of view is any haven t always gotten the resu
saying it s very expensive to keep this open. they re also saying this is bipartisan consensus, we solicited opinions. what s your beef here? we re not dealing with this problem in a vacuum. we know what happens when we don t have extensive early voting in ohio. the world has a videotape of what it looked like in 2004 in ohio when we didn t have evening voting, when we didn t have voting on the sunday before elections. and this is predictable what s going to happen. and so there has clearly been a consensus among the voters themselves that they want to have these expanded hours because they have been using them in overwhelming numbers and, chris, it s been working. we ve had several elections in a row where we haven t had long lines at the polls, where people have been able to exercise their franchise. the problem from the republican point of view is any haven t always gotten the results that they want and so they re changing the rules again. i want to play the ohio gop chairman wh
segment. there are over 400,000 ohioans who are either underemployed and unemploy 37d think about folks in the middle class stringing two or three jobs together and them not having an opportunity to take advantage of sunday voting or having the opportunity of take advantage of evening voting. all of this is being done by design, rachel. it is not an accident that the republicans in the state of ohio are trying to break the spirit and the will of the voters in the great state of ohio. it is a shame. this is a moral issue and everyone in this state should be skbrout ra outraged. as you pointed out, these roadblocks, voters should not have to jump over hurdles and roadblocks just to be able to vote. voting is designed to determine their will, not how high they can jump. they re taking us back to the bad old days in the state of ohio. the secretary said today one of his goals in announcing these changes was in his words to make it hard to cheat during