common problems, and joining me is bob bauer and ben ginsburg. gentlemen, you ve done the tandems, campaign finance issues, but on election issues. ben, let me start with you, because this is where this becomes a partisan fight is on access to the ballot. you guys focused more on how the balloting is done and the voting procedure. why did you stay away from the photo i.d. issue? the photo i.d. issue is beyond the charge that the commission had. the reality of what we did is that bob and i have spent a lot of years on opposite sides of issues. we ve done a lot of recounts together. when you do recounts, you see there are real flaws in the american electoral system, and there are solutions for those systems. and so, we wanted to be able to come to a bipartisan agreement on some of those flaws that need fixing as a mechanical manner to help make it better for the voter experience for all
to. what we present are a series of bipartisan recommendations aimed at the voter and making voting easier for all legally qualified voters. as bob said, our mission in this report was to improve the voter experience. i reject the notion that somehow republicans don t want people to vote. mr. ginsberg, i am really happy to hear you say that i promise to clip that sound byte and play it over and over again in years to come. thank you. thank you for your time tonight in talking to us. you guys are busy guys who bill a lot for your time, and your devotion to do this for the country and to spend a year doing this in a totally nonpartisan way is an honorable thing to have done. for the new mattress models
what it calls the voter experience, saying that among other things voters should not need to wait more than half hour to vote and that ballots should be well designed and simple to understand. what does it say about our voting system that these guidelines even have to be stated? i think part of what it says is it that there s still a lot of antique ate ed equipment out there, nothing close to the internet shopping experience people have gotten used to. the voter i.d. is one of the main battle grounds, a lot of recommendations i saw are already being implemented in texas. we have ten days of early voting that starts our march 4th primary to get to start voting february 18th and does reduce lines on election day and seems like a pretty good idea to share best practices around the