you see this, though, as a coordinated effort across states? you know, i don t think it s a coicoincidence, by any stretch of the imagination. when you look at what has happened across the country, it s all happening in time for the november election. it s all happening in states where there are republican-controlled legislatures, and they re moving very aggressively, and the targets of them are black latino young voters and elderly who turned out in record numbers in 2008. judith browne-dianis, will you keep us appraised of how things are going in florida? thank you. still to come, we have the world s most dubious bus tour. plus the best new thing in the world that has an adorable accent. lots more to come. stay with us. sier and broe. it s the red. it s the green and yellow. it s the red, white and blue.
to register and made it harder to vote by cutting back early voting. so they re moving forward with just a different page of the playbook, where other states have done voter i.d. as their weapon of choice of voter suppression. you see this, though, as a coordinated effort across states? you know, i don t think it s a coicoincidence, by any stretch of the imagination. when you look at what has happened across the country, it s all happening in time for the november election. it s all happening in states where there are republican-controlled legislatures, and they re moving very aggressively, and the targets of them are black latino young voters and elderly who turned out in record numbers in 2008. judith browne-dianis, will you keep us appraised of how things are going in florida? thank you. still to come, we have the world s most dubious bus tour. plus the best new thing in the world that has an adorable accent. lots more to come. stay with us. [ male announcer ] what s in your
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr
and what will happen is 700,000 pennsylvanians, mostly poor people, people of color, students, elderly people, and handicapped people will no longer be eligible to vote. they say, well, you can go get a voter i.d., but you have to have a birth certificate, you have to have a social security card, you have to travel to a penndot office to do that. all of that costs money, takes time. and the thing about voter suppression, you don t have to suppress every vote. if you can knock downturnout by 25%, 30%, that s going to make a real difference in close elections. that s the goal here. i want to be clear here because judith was talking about the south. this is pennsylvania now. we re talking about in pennsylvan pennsylvania. they want to pass these laws when you ve had zero voter i.d., photo i.d. fraud established, according to you. we went back all fraud, we looked at all fraud since 99. out of 31 million votes cast in pennsylvania, there s only been
12 voter cases that have come up. so you re talking about a complete fabrication of a problem here, senator. right. and keep in mind a lot of people in the general public and a lot of politicians who support this use the term fraud broadly, or voter fraud broadly. voter fraud can mean many things, from buying a vote to stuffing the ballot box, to fiddling with the machines or a variety of things. voter i.d. only addresses one type of voter fraud, which is voter impersonation. were a person successfully commit this crime, which is a crime, you have to know the person you re impersonating is registered at that poll, that no one s going to recognize that person from the five or six people there, and that the person has not already voted that day. if you make one mistake, you re going to be in prison for five years. so what you would predict would happen is this crime is so high risk and low reward, it never occu occurs. you were trying to get in here, judith? reverend sharpton, we k