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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121014:15:20:00

On the individual. but you were telling this amazing story that you have got to tell on air. it turns out it s not at all subtle in terms of strategy. right. you know, we think of voter suppression as people who are mean and don t want people ho don t like them to vote. in a lot of ways, republicans are looking at the math. the ability to attract voters and keep the voters they can t attract away. we were talking about the brief. i interviewed jim greer the former head of the republican party of florida who is fighting a legal battle of his own. he was run out of part by charlie chris. what he told me is after the 200 election, democrats were loving charlie crist. they kept polls open. if you were in line at 7:00, you were allowed to go in and vote. this caused almost hysteria among his own party. republicans blamed him for barack obama winning florida and ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121014:15:11:00

That he would introduce this legislation, but rather the role of the doj. in fact, it s one of the things that i think the obama administration has not been as up front about in terms of a real victory that they could be which is how aggressive this department of justice has been in an attempt to try to stop these kinds of measures. jonathan, let me let you in here. absolutely. i would add to everything said, that the tremendous irony of this round of voter suppression in florida is that the 2011 law ha started this snowball from rolling down the hill is inciting voter fraud as a the public health. the irony here is that what s happening here is that this is producing ill health. all of this anxiety and this concern and feeling of the system. people are feeling very, very disconnected as a result of this as well. interesting. we re going to stay on this. gihan. i want to give you one last word ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121014:14:57:00

You are the one that actually not allowing women to have abortion and question and contraception and other things. we need that understand that whatever we say, whatever we promote as policy will affect other countries and our foreign policies. our choices right now. in terms of our foreign policy, our electoral choices make a difference. to the many people that are fighting daily against extremists from all sides. that wants to control their bodies and their brain. i sew appreciate you being here today. we re both the mothers of daughters. we know that whatever good comes from this, it never reduces the horror that is this act and just to put that here. thank you for coming. thank you for having me. coming up next, back to domestic politics and down to the sunshine state. it s time for this week in voter suppression. game! [ male announcer ] don t have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121014:15:01:00

Welcome back. i m melissa harris-perry. when i think about florida, i think thinking about palm trees, sunshine, oranges, disney world. scenes that make you want to put on your mouse ears and toss back a mojito. when it s three weeks until election day and any of us think about florida, we think about this guy. the infamous hanging chads of the 2000 bush/gore election which earned florida a place in voting infamy. the suppress sif efforts taking place in 2012 could make those seem quaint. which brings me to this week in voter suppression. now, this isn t the first time that we visited the sunshine state in this series and not just because it has 29 electoral votes and the election could come down to florida, florida, florida. we ve covered it because that state s republican governor, rick scott, has been purging the voter rolls of allegedly ineligible voters and was enabled this month to keep doing ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121014:15:04:00

Lead from an ap article out this past thursday. at polls, fears of voter suppression and intimidation. kimberly kelly of tampa provided election commissions with thousands of names of people she thinks should be removed from the polls and are ineligible to vote. she s part of tampa vote fair. please tell us about this group. well, that group and true the vote that are operating mostly in tampa, they re electoral vigilante groups. they exist now to come out and test people, challenge people s votes. but what they really come out of it a whole history, particularly here in florida as you know under rick scott and an extremist florida legislature that took over in 2010 who part of their vow was to put down the unprecedented electoral up rising of minorities, black, latino, caribbean and young ....

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