don t vote as much as i should have, i should have voted more, i get there and my name is purged. you don t lose the right to speak because you re quiet for a little while. sometimes it s good to listen. you should not hear you lost the right to vote because you missed a cycle. that s the law in florida. we will make sure people under any laws or court rulings have the right to vote. when people send tips to nbcuni.com. we will investigate these. sometimes they re real and sometimes they re not or sometimes just interesting piece of information like a polling place in georgia that did not provide power cords for its voting machines. we didn t know if it was nefarious or not but it was true. ari is keeping an eye on voting irregularities all day today. up next, the late freft our team monitoring the spreads of misinformation across the state today as millions of people head to the polls in these critical elections. first, listen up, 15 states and
politics and nbc contributor, the washington post opinion writer. jonathan, let s start with you, what are you looking at? overall i m looking at the florida governor s race, the georgia s governor s race, the race in georgia six where lucy mcbath is trying to unseat carren handel. the special election held that karen handel won by a squeaker in the end. right. i m looking at north carolina and missou north dakota and missouri. we ve seen this before, mch them to snatch defeat from the jaw. running a little behind there. and i m keeping my eye out for north dakota because we have not seen a poll, seems like weeks, and it s looking like democrats crozing t democrat closing the margin in
voter suppression. there s a high possibility neither abrams nor kemp will secure the 50% of the vote required under georgia law because there s another candidate, libertarian candidate ted metz is in the race, which means we could be headed to a runoff election in december. political reports both campaigns are preparing for overtime. nbc news rehema ellis joins me live. this race has huge implications for the rest of the country. what are you hearing from voters? one of the things voters are saying is they re glad at this particular location they brought out some extra voting booths for people because the line was so long, it meant that people were spending a lot of time here just waiting. they brought out extra voting booths here as well as in some other places. in one place, they re going to keep the polling place open a little bit longer tonight in order to make certain that everybody gets to vote. but why are people coming out and what are they saying? i want you to listen to on
control 51 of the seats and democrats control 49. democrats have an uphill battle there defending 26 of the 35 seats up for election. they need a net gain of two seats to take control. that is a high bar. in the house, republicans hold the majority, with 235 seats. right now democrats hold 193. there are seven vacancies. democrats need to net 23 seats in order to take control of the house of representatives. and let s not forget the governor races across the country, policies that affect your daily life and how districts are distributed come down to state leadership. we will be on the road with our road warriors finding out what s happening on the ground on this historic election day. let s start the hour in georgia, where katy is. the tight race there for governor. democrat stacey abrams and republican candidate brian kemp, who happens to be the current secretary of state, have been neck in neck in public polls. the race that s already been bogged down by racially charged political ad
before the last election. he won this thing. it was a canary in the coal mine for the tea party. he s a tea party republican. abigail spanberger is a former operative with the cia. again, this is one to watch because this is those sue bourbon women voters in a washington suburb. if this goes to the democrats, that will be some sense of how the evening will go for them. jonathan capehart just mentioned this one, georgia six. handel won in a special election against ossoff but it was particular choice. we will watch what happens in the georgia gubernatorial race. but see if that falls into democrats hands. number 15, between orlando and tampa, there s a retired republican in this district, gop republican dennis ross. it s between ross spannio and kristin carlson. again, you re watching a lot of races in florida. we re watching the gubernatorial