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Keb' Mo': ♪ O BEAUTIFUL
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FOR SPACIOUS SKIES,
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FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN ♪
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♪ FOR PURPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTIES
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ABOVE THE FRUITED PLAIN... ♪
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Mo Rocca: IT'S MORNING
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IN WASHINGTON D.C., HOME OF
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THE GREATEST EXPERIMENT
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IN SELF-GOVERNANCE SINCE...
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WELL, SINCE EVER.
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IT'S A NATION WHERE EVERY
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PERSON HAS A VOICE AND EVERY
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VOICE IS HEARD.
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IT'S ONE NATION, UNDER GOD,
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INDIVISI...
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WELL, YOU GET THE PICTURE.
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Keb' Mo': ♪ FROM SEA
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TO SHINING, SHINING SEA. ♪
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BUT AMERICA IS AT WAR.
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[MORTAR WHOOSHES, GUNS FIRING]
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I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A
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SHOOTING WAR LIKE AFGHANISTAN.
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[MACHINE GUN FIRING...]
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I'M NOT EVEN TALKING
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ABOUT THE WAR ON TERROR.
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NOPE.
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AMERICA IS ENGAGED IN A TOTALLY
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DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR-- BEING
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FOUGHT RIGHT HERE WITHIN OUR
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BORDERS-- OVER ONE
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OF DEMOCRACY'S MOST SACRED
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ACTS: VOTING.
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ON ONE SIDE, FORCES DEVOTED
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TO STOPPING WHAT THEY SAY IS
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POTENTIALLY MASSIVE
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VOTER FRAUD.
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TV Reporter: ACORN'S VOTER
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REGISTRATION DRIVES ARE UNDER
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INVESTIGATION IN SEVERAL STATES.
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WE NEED TO KNOW THE FULL
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EXTENT OF SENATOR OBAMA'S
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RELATIONSHIP WITH ACORN,
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WHO IS NOW ON THE VERGE OF MAYBE
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PERPETRATING ONE OF THE GREATEST
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FRAUDS IN VOTER HISTORY IN THIS
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COUNTRY, MAYBE DESTROYING
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THE FABRIC OF DEMOCRACY.
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ON THE OTHER SIDE, A MOVEMENT
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THAT BELIEVES INDIVIDUALS
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ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY AND
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DELIBERATELY DISENFRANCHISED.
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Group: THE VOTE! THE VOTE!
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PROTECT THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
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Bill Clinton: THERE HAS NEVER
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BEEN IN MY LIFETIME, SINCE WE
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GOT RID OF THE JIM CROW BURDENS
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ON VOTING, THE DETERMINED EFFORT
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TO LIMIT THE FRANCHISE THAT
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WE SEE TODAY.
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Rocca: THOSE CAUGHT
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IN THE CROSSFIRE?
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MILLIONS OF AMERICAN VOTERS
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JUST LIKE YOU AND ME.
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AND NO, YOUR FLAT FEET ARE NOT
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GONNA KEEP YOU OUT OF THIS ONE.
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[♪...]
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I'M MO ROCCA.
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MY JOURNEY BEGAN FOUR YEARS
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AGO, WHEN I HEADED TO THE FRONT
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LINES OF THIS EPIC
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AND ONGOING BATTLE.
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I WANTED TO SEE FOR MYSELF HOW
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VOTING WORKS IN AMERICA.
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...ROCCA THE VOTE!
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ROCCA THE VOTE!
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...WHAT I FOUND WAS
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SOMETIMES SHOCKING...
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IT'S JUST A SIMPLE LITTLE
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THING-- THEY DON'T WANT TO PUT
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THEM BALLOTS THROUGH THAT
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MACHINE ON ELECTION DAY.
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SOMETIMES ENCOURAGING...
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WE WANT THE BALLOTS TO TIP
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TO OUR SIDE, OBVIOUSLY,
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AS REPUBLICANS... BUT YOU HAVE
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TO HAVE DEMOCRATS, TOO.
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THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE.
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SO I ROOT FOR THE GOOD ONES.
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AND ALWAYS SURPRISING.
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Man: REDNECKS FOR OBAMA!
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Man 2: HELL YEAH, ABSOLUTELY!
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THIS IS MY WAR DIARY.
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[BRASS BAND PLAYS
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"AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"...]
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[PAPER SHREDDING...]
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[MUSIC ENDS]
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O.K., SO WHO GETS TO VOTE
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IN AMERICA?
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WELL, YOU'RE ALLOWED TO VOTE
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IF YOU'RE BORN HERE.
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SIMPLE ENOUGH.
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TELL ME WHAT THE TROUBLE IS.
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I'M GOING TO HAVE A BABY.
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Man: I HEREBY DECLARE
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ON OATH...
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All: I HEREBY DECLARE
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ON OATH...
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YOU ALSO GET TO VOTE
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IF YOU BECOME A CITIZEN.
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SO FAR, SO GOOD.
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BUT HISTORY IS CHOCK-FULL
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OF STORIES ABOUT EXCLUDED
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GROUPS FIGHTING AND DYING TO
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GET THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
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DUE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
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WHICH BEGS THE QUESTION...
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...IS VOTING A RIGHT
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OR A PRIVILEGE?
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A RIGHT.
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IS VOTING A RIGHT
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OR A PRIVILEGE?
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I THINK IT'S, UH... BOTH.
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YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE.
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I HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
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A RIGHT AND A PRIVILEGE?
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YEAH, THAT'S THE WAY THE GAME
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IS PLAYED.
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OH, I THINK IT'S A RIGHT.
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WHAT DOES YOUR FRIEND THINK?
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TYLER, DO YOU THINK VOTING
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IS A RIGHT OR A PRIVILEGE?
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HE THINKS IT'S A RIGHT, TOO.
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VOTING IS A PRIVILEGE...
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UM... WHICH IS WHAT I TELL
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MY STUDENTS.
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I THINK IF YOU'RE A CITIZEN,
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THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT
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TO VOTE.
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ALL RIGHT, THERE SEEMS TO BE
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SOME CONFUSION HERE.
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SO WHO BETTER TO SORT THIS OUT
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FOR ME THAN SOME OF OUR
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COUNTRY'S NEWLY MINTED
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CITIZENS?
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I MEAN, THEY JUST TOOK A TEST
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ON THIS STUFF.
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LUCKILY WE HAPPENED UPON A
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GIANT COPY OF THE CONSTITUTION
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AND WENT TO WORK.
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...YOU'RE UP IN ARTICLE 1,
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IS THERE ANYTHING THERE?
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Woman: NOTHING.
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THIS IS THE WRONG COPY, I THINK.
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NO, THIS IS THE CONSTITUTION.
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THIS IS THE CONSTITUTION...
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I THINK IT IS THAT.
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YEAH... NO, SAM, I THINK
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YOU'RE OVER IN CONGRESS
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RIGHT HERE.
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ANY VOTING THERE?
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I DON'T FIND ANYTHING.
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Woman: THERE'S A LOT OF
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STUFF IN THERE BUT NOTHING
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ABOUT VOTING.
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I HAVEN'T SEEN IT...
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I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING.
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YEAH, I COULDN'T FIND
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ANYTHING.
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...BUT EVEN USING A HIGH-TECH
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MAGNIFYING DEVICE,
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WE WERE COMING UP EMPTY.
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I DECIDED I NEEDED HELP
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FROM AN EXPERT.
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...I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER
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THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE RIGHT
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TO VOTE AND I CAN'T FIND IT.
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I'M NOT SURPRISED.
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THERE IS NO RIGHT TO VOTE
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IN THE CONSTITUTION.
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YOU'RE NOT KIDDING ME?
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NO, I'M NOT KIDDING YOU.
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UM... THE CONSTITUTION AT THE
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NATION'S BIRTH MADE NO MENTION
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OF VOTING RIGHTS WHATSOEVER.
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DID THEY JUST FORGET TO?
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NO, THEY DIDN'T FORGET TO.
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THEY WERE UNSURE, IN FACT,
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WHETHER VOTING WAS A RIGHT
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OR A PRIVILEGE.
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AND IF IT WAS A RIGHT,
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THEY WEREN'T SURE WHO THE RIGHT
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ACTUALLY BELONGED TO.
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THIS CONSTITUTIONAL SILENCE
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ON THE RIGHT TO VOTE PUTS THE
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U.S. IN THE COMPANY OF NATIONS
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LIKE LIBYA, IRAN AND INDONESIA.
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IN TERMS OF THE CONSTITUTION,
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WHAT WE HAVE IS A KIND OF RAGTAG
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SERIES OF AD-HOC CONSTITUTIONAL
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AMENDMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED
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THROUGH POPULAR STRUGGLE TO SAY
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YOU CAN'T DISCRIMINATE
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ON THE BASIS OF RACE--
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THE 15th AMENDMENT--
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YOU CAN'T DISCRIMINATE
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ON THE BASIS OF SEX--
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THE 19th AMENDMENT--
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PEOPLE IN THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
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HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE
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IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS--
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THE 23rd.
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BUT OTHER THAN THESE KIND OF
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ANTI-DISCRIMINATION AMENDMENTS,
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WE DON'T HAVE THE AFFIRMATIVE
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UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO VOTE LIKE
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YOU FIND IN THE SOUTH AFRICA
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CONSTITUTION, WHICH JUST SIMPLY
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SAYS, "EVERYBODY'S GOT A RIGHT
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TO VOTE," THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS
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TO HAVE A DEMOCRACY, THAT'S WHAT
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"WE THE PEOPLE" REALLY MEANS.
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JAMIE TOLD ME THAT THE
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DRAFTERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
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SIDESTEPPED THE CONFLICT BY
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LEAVING THE DECISION ABOUT WHO
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COULD OR COULD NOT VOTE
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UP TO THE STATES.
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IT ALL STARTED WHEN 13 COLONIES
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DECIDED TO HOOK UP AND MAKE
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A GO OF IT.
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BUT AS IN ANY RELATIONSHIP,
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THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP
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ALL THEIR INDEPENDENCE.
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EACH COLONY WANTED THE POWER
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TO MAKE ITS OWN RULES, BECAUSE,
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YOU KNOW, THIS NEW COUNTRY
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COULD BE SO SMOTHERING
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AT TIMES.
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EVENTUALLY, THE NEW NATION
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DECIDED IT NEEDED TO START
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SEEING OTHER STATES--
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37 TO BE EXACT.
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HEY, DON'T JUDGE--
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IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME.
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AND EACH STATE BROUGHT ITS OWN
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BAGGAGE, OF COURSE.
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CITIES, TOWNS AND COUNTIES,
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ALL OF WHICH WANTED THEIR OWN
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SAY IN HOW TO CONDUCT
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ELECTIONS.
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AFTER MORE THAN 200 YEARS,
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THIS LOOSEY-GOOSEY UNION HAS
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GROWN VERY COMPLICATED.
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13,000 SEPARATE ELECTORAL
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DISTRICTS: EACH WITH ITS OWN
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RULES ABOUT VOTING, BALLOT
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DESIGN, POLL-WORKER TRAINING
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AND RECOUNTS.
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AND MOST OF THE BLAME GOES
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TO THAT CONSTITUTION, WHICH
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GAVE STATES CONTROL OVER
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VOTING AND SET UP... [RUMBLING]
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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[♪...]
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...DO YOU KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
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NO, I'M FROM TENNESSEE.
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GO UP TWO BLOCKS
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AND TURN LEFT.
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IT'LL BE THE FIRST DOOR
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ON YOUR RIGHT.
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I NEVER HEARD OF IT.
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WHERE YOU CAN FIND
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
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THAT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION.
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I DON'T THINK ANYBODY CAN ANSWER
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THAT, CAN THEY?
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ALL RIGHT.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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YOU'RE VERY WELCOME,
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HAVE A GOOD ONE.
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Keyssar: THE ELECTORAL
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COLLEGE WAS CREATED AFTER
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A SUMMER THAT THE FOUNDING
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FATHERS SPENT SCRATCHING THEIR
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HEADS AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT
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HOW TO CHOOSE A PRESIDENT.
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ONE THOUGHT WAS TO HAVE CONGRESS
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CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT.
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THEN THEY THOUGHT, "NO, THAT
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WOULD MAKE THE PRESIDENT
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TOO DEPENDENT ON CONGRESS."
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THERE WERE A FEW PEOPLE WHO
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SAID, "LET'S HAVE A NATIONAL
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ELECTION."
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BUT THAT WAS OPPOSED PARTLY
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BECAUSE IT WAS FELT THAT PEOPLE
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DIDN'T KNOW, WOULDN'T KNOW
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THE CANDIDATES.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S A RURAL COUNTRY,
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SPREAD OUT.
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THE OTHER REASON AGAINST
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A POPULAR ELECTION WAS THAT IT
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WOULD'VE GIVEN LESS POWER
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TO THE SOUTH, TO THE
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SLAVE-HOLDING SOUTH.
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THAT LED TO THE NOTORIOUS
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THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE,
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WHICH COUNTED EACH SLAVE
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AS THREE-FIFTHS OF A PERSON.
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THIS GAVE THE SOUTHERN STATES
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EXTRA REPRESENTATIVES IN
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CONGRESS AND EXTRA VOTES
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IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE,
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THEORETICALLY CREATING
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A BALANCE BETWEEN NORTH
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AND SOUTH.
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OF COURSE, NEITHER SIDE
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ACTUALLY ALLOWED ENSLAVED
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PEOPLE TO VOTE.
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SO THOSE TWO OPTIONS, AN
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ACTUAL POPULAR VOTE OR CONGRESS
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CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT, SEEMED
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TO HAVE A LOT OF DISADVANTAGES,
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AND THEY CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA,
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WHICH WAS NOT SO UNCOMMON
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AT THE TIME, OF HAVING AN
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INDIRECT ELECTION WHERE YOU
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CHOOSE ELECTORS AND THEN
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THE ELECTORS... UH...
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CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT.
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SOUNDS GOOD IN THEORY,
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BUT IN PRACTICE, WELL, EVEN
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A THIRD-GRADER CAN SEE
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THERE ARE PROBLEMS.
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...WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LITTLE
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ELECTION HERE AND I'M GOING
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TO ASK YOU TO CHOOSE BETWEEN TWO
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CANDIDATES: COLORED PENCILS
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AND MARKERS.
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WHO IS VOTING
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FOR COLORED PENCILS?
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OKAY, 10 VOTES
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FOR COLORED PENCILS.
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WHO IS VOTING FOR MARKERS?
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14 FOR MARKERS.
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MARKERS HAVE WON
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THE POPULAR VOTE.
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[CHILDREN WHOOP AND APPLAUD]
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AND NOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE
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THE REAL ELECTION.
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[CHILDREN GROAN]
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NATURALLY, THEY WERE
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DISAPPOINTED.
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THEY THOUGHT WE'D JUST HAD
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THE ELECTION.
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BUT NOW IT WAS TIME TO WARP
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THESE YOUNG MINDS
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BY INTRODUCING THEM
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TO THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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SO WE BROKE THE CLASS
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INTO FIVE TABLES, OR STATES.
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THE MAJORITY AT EACH TABLE--
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EITHER MARKERS OR COLORED
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PENCILS-- WOULD GET THE TABLE'S
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ONE ELECTORAL VOTE.
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OF COURSE IN REAL LIFE, STATES
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HAVE VARYING AMOUNTS
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OF ELECTORAL VOTES DEPENDING
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ON THE POPULATION.
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...TABLE ONE'S ELECTOR,
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HOW DO YOU CAST YOUR VOTE?
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MARKERS.
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TABLE TWO'S ELECTOR,
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HOW DO YOU CAST YOUR VOTE?
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MARKERS.
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TABLE THREE'S ELECTOR?
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COLORED PENCILS.
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IN THE END, THE WHOLE
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ELECTION CAME DOWN
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TO ONE STATE.
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...TABLE FIVE'S ELECTOR, ANGEL,
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COME ON DOWN.
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THIS IS IT, GUYS.
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THIS WILL DECIDE
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THE WHOLE THING.
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ELECTOR, HOW DO YOU CAST
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YOUR VOTE?
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COLORED PENCILS.
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[SOME CHILDREN CHEER]
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Boy: THAT WAS SO CHEATING!
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WHAT'S THAT?
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THAT WAS SO CHEATING!
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EVERYBODY SHOULD THINK IT'S
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UNFAIR BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST
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ABOUT THE ELECTORS' VOTES.
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IT'S ABOUT EVERYBODY'S VOTES.
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AUBREY, YOU ARE A
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RABBLE-ROUSER, I MEAN CLEARLY
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YOU'RE TRYING TO WHIP THEM UP
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INTO A FRENZY.
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IT HAS TO BE FAIR FOR
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EVERYBODY WHO VOTED FOR MARKERS,
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NOT JUST FOR COLORED PENCILS.
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IT'S 14 TO 10.
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IT SHOULD STAY THAT WAY.
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THIS GUY IS A DANGEROUS
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REFORMER.
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...YOU KNOW IT'S NOT LIKE THIS
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HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE.
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OH... ACTUALLY, IT DID.
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THEY SET UP THIS ELECTORAL
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COLLEGE BUSINESS AND SINCE THEN,
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NEARLY ONE IN 10 PRESIDENTS TOOK
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THE WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT WINNING
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THE POPULAR VOTE.
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LIKE ME: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
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I'M RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
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I LOST THE POPULAR VOTE AND
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I ALMOST CAUSED A SECOND
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CIVIL WAR.
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WHOOPS, MY BAD.
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BUT, DON'T BLAME ME.
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BLAME THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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I'M GEORGE W. BUSH AND I LIKE
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TO THINK OF MYSELF AS
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THE EDUCATION PRESIDENT...
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STARTING WITH MY FAVORITE
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COLLEGE-- THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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HEH-HEH-- THAT'S IN FLORIDA,
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RIGHT?
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Raskin: THE KEY THING THAT
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FRUSTRATES PEOPLE ABOUT THE
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE TODAY IS THAT
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IT SIDELINES AND MARGINALIZES
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TWO-THIRDS TO THREE-QUARTERS
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OF THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
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MOST OF US LIVE IN RED STATES
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OR BLUE STATES.
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TAKE OUR FOUR BIGGEST STATES.
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THREE OF THEM ARE SAFE STATES.
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TEXAS, A RED STATE;
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CALIFORNIA, A BLUE STATE;
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NEW YORK, A BLUE STATE;
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ONLY FLORIDA IS SOMETIMES
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A SWING STATE.
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THAT MEANS, IN THREE OF OUR FOUR
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BIGGEST STATES, THERE'S
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NO CAMPAIGNING, THE VOTER
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TURNOUT RATE IS LIKE FIVE TO
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10 POINTS LOWER THAN IT IS
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IN THE SWING STATES,
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WHERE ALL THE TV ADS ARE.
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WHY SHOULD THE VAST MAJORITY
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OF THE PUBLIC HAVE NO REAL ROLE
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IN ELECTING THE PRESIDENT?
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IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
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DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE?
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A CREAKY ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
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A CONSTITUTION THAT DOESN'T
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GUARANTEE US THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
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AND YET EVERY YEAR,
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THERE IS AN ELECTION OF SOME
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KIND, SOMEWHERE.
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IF I WAS GOING TO UNDERSTAND
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HOW VOTING REALLY WORKS IN
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AMERICA, I'D NEED TO JUMP
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INTO THE THICK OF IT--
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IN A SWING STATE, OF COURSE,
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SINCE THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT
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ACTUALLY DECIDE OUR ELECTIONS.
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A PLACE WHERE THE PASSION FOR
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POLITICS RUNS DEEP, RIGHT SMACK
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IN THE MIDDLE OF AMERICA'S
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HEARTLAND.
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Kate Smith: ♪ BACK HOME AGAIN
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IN INDIANA... ♪
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THAT'S RIGHT-- INDIANA,
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THE HOOSIER STATE,
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HOME TO SOME OF THE TOUGHEST
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ELECTION LAWS IN THE COUNTRY.
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A SWING STATE FOR THE FIRST
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TIME IN DECADES AND RECORD
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HOLDER FOR THE CLOSEST
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CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN U.S.
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HISTORY, "THE BLOODY 8th".
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[♪...]
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IF I WAS LOOKING FOR THE FRONT
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LINES IN THE BATTLE OVER
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VOTING, I HAD COME
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TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
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[♪...]
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♪ ...LONG FOR MY INDIANA
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HOME! ♪
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[SONG ENDS]
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Man: I HAVE ONE JOB,
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ONE JOB ONLY.
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MY JOB IS TO TURN OUT EVERY
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DEMOCRAT VOTER AND GET 'EM OUT
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TO VOTE.
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...UH YES, DID YOU CALL DEMOCRAT
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HEADQUARTERS IN JENNINGS COUNTY?
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...I'VE BEEN DOING THIS
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FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
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...WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?
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...STARTING OFF BACK WHEN I WAS
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A TEENAGER.
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SEVENTH GENERATION HERE
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IN JENNINGS COUNTY.
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FAMILY'S BEEN HERE
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FOR A LONG TIME.
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VERY STRONG DEMOCRATS.
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MIKE MARSHALL, A FORMER STATE
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REPRESENTATIVE, ISN'T ONLY
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ENTHUSIASTIC,
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HE'S ALSO EFFECTIVE.
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IN 2004, REPUBLICANS WON EVERY
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COUNTY OFFICE EXCEPT ONE.
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IN 2006, AFTER MIKE STARTED HIS
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GET-OUT-THE-VOTE EFFORT,
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DEMOCRATS WON EVERY COUNTY
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OFFICE EXCEPT ONE.
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IMPRESSIVE BRAGGING RIGHTS
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FOR A DYED-IN-THE-WOOL
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POLITICAL INSIDER.
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[FIFE-AND-DRUM BAND PLAYS...]
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SO IS THE REPUBLICAN FLOAT
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FIRST AND THEN YOU HAVE
531
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THE REPUBLICANS AFTER?
532
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IS THAT RIGHT?
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I BELIEVE SO.
534
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O.K., THAT'LL WORK.
535
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THAT'S GOOD...
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00:15:12,463 --> 00:15:13,464
ACROSS THE AISLE AND DOWN
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THE ROAD IN NEIGHBORING RIPLEY
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00:15:14,741 --> 00:15:17,157
COUNTY LIVES DEE DEE BENKIE.
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HEY, LARRY!
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00:15:18,193 --> 00:15:19,194
DEE DEE ONCE WORKED AT THE
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00:15:19,228 --> 00:15:21,058
BUSH WHITE HOUSE WITH KARL ROVE
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00:15:21,092 --> 00:15:22,438
AND WAS RECENTLY ELECTED TO
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THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
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00:15:23,681 --> 00:15:25,062
COMMITTEE.
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00:15:25,096 --> 00:15:26,304
I FIRST GOT INVOLVED
546
00:15:26,339 --> 00:15:27,443
IN POLITICS WHEN I WAS
547
00:15:27,478 --> 00:15:28,341
IN HIGH SCHOOL.
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00:15:28,375 --> 00:15:29,687
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE
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ACTIVE, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMEONE
550
00:15:31,309 --> 00:15:32,448
TO SIT ON THE SIDELINES.
551
00:15:32,483 --> 00:15:34,036
SOMEONE TO, UH, TRY TO MAKE
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00:15:34,071 --> 00:15:35,279
A DIFFERENCE, AND I THINK MOST
553
00:15:35,313 --> 00:15:36,659
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN POLITICS...
554
00:15:36,694 --> 00:15:38,316
THEY WANT TO DO THAT.
555
00:15:38,351 --> 00:15:42,044
[DRUMMING...]
556
00:15:42,079 --> 00:15:43,149
Parade announcer: LADIES
557
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AND GENTLEMEN, A BIG ROUND
558
00:15:44,046 --> 00:15:45,013
OF APPLAUSE FOR THE BIG RED,
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WHITE AND BLUE!
560
00:15:46,083 --> 00:15:47,187
Benkie: I ENDED UP WORKING
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00:15:47,222 --> 00:15:48,326
WITH THE BUSH CAMPAIGN BECAUSE
562
00:15:48,361 --> 00:15:49,327
I WAS IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION
563
00:15:49,362 --> 00:15:50,397
WITH YOUNG REPUBLICANS.
564
00:15:50,432 --> 00:15:51,605
OF COURSE, I WAS A VERY
565
00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:52,779
LOW-LEVEL STAFFER BUT PRESIDENT
566
00:15:52,813 --> 00:15:54,367
BUSH COULDN'T HAVE BEEN NICER.
567
00:15:54,401 --> 00:15:56,714
[DRUMMING...]
568
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AFTER I LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE,
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I WANTED TO COME BACK HOME
570
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TO INDIANA, BACK TO MY ROOTS AND
571
00:16:01,443 --> 00:16:03,652
REALLY DO A LOT OF ON-THE-GROUND
572
00:16:03,686 --> 00:16:04,687
POLITICAL WORK.
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00:16:04,722 --> 00:16:06,034
BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES WHEN
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00:16:06,068 --> 00:16:07,173
YOU'RE IN WASHINGTON, PEOPLE...
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00:16:07,207 --> 00:16:08,312
I THINK THEY LOSE TOUCH
576
00:16:08,346 --> 00:16:10,659
WITH, UM, THE REAL WORLD,
577
00:16:10,693 --> 00:16:13,144
AND I JUST WANTED TO GO HOME.
578
00:16:13,179 --> 00:16:14,318
WHILE DEE DEE WORKED THE
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00:16:14,352 --> 00:16:16,458
CROWD AT THE PARADE, BACK IN
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00:16:16,492 --> 00:16:18,253
JENNINGS COUNTY, MIKE MARSHALL
581
00:16:18,287 --> 00:16:19,426
FOCUSED ON GETTING OUT
582
00:16:19,461 --> 00:16:20,427
THE VOTE.
583
00:16:20,462 --> 00:16:22,395
I WENT TO HER HOUSE AT 11:00
584
00:16:22,429 --> 00:16:24,707
LAST NIGHT AND I'D BEEN OUT
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00:16:24,742 --> 00:16:27,193
THERE THREE OTHER DIFFERENT DAYS
586
00:16:27,227 --> 00:16:28,401
BECAUSE WE HAD TO GET HER SIGNED
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00:16:28,435 --> 00:16:29,643
UP BY THE DEADLINE LAST NIGHT
588
00:16:29,678 --> 00:16:31,266
BY MIDNIGHT.
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00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:33,371
WE FOUND HER AT HOME AT 11:15;
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00:16:33,406 --> 00:16:34,372
SHE WAS ASLEEP.
591
00:16:34,407 --> 00:16:35,477
I WOKE HER UP.
592
00:16:35,511 --> 00:16:37,341
WE GOT HER SIGNED UP SO IT
593
00:16:37,375 --> 00:16:38,652
WOULD ARRIVE AT THE ELECTION
594
00:16:38,687 --> 00:16:40,275
OFFICE LAST NIGHT BY FAX BEFORE
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00:16:40,309 --> 00:16:41,552
THE MIDNIGHT DEADLINE.
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00:16:41,586 --> 00:16:42,553
[CLAPS]
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00:16:42,587 --> 00:16:44,486
AND I WAS VERY SATISFIED.
598
00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,108
THAT'S A RUSH TO ME.
599
00:16:46,143 --> 00:16:47,144
PART OF MIKE'S EFFECTIVENESS
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00:16:47,178 --> 00:16:48,283
COMES FROM HIS ABILITY
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00:16:48,317 --> 00:16:49,560
TO NEGOTIATE INDIANA'S
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00:16:49,594 --> 00:16:51,320
VOTING STATUTES,
603
00:16:51,355 --> 00:16:52,563
ESPECIALLY SINCE PASSAGE
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00:16:52,597 --> 00:16:55,324
OF THE STATE'S PHOTO I.D. LAW.
605
00:16:55,359 --> 00:16:58,293
IN THE 2004 ELECTION, INDIANA
606
00:16:58,327 --> 00:17:01,434
WENT VERY REPUBLICAN AND THE
607
00:17:01,468 --> 00:17:02,780
REPUBLICANS HAD CONTROL OF THE
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00:17:02,814 --> 00:17:04,299
STATE SENATE AND THEY CONTROLLED
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00:17:04,333 --> 00:17:05,300
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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00:17:05,334 --> 00:17:06,680
IN INDIANAPOLIS AND THEY HAD
611
00:17:06,715 --> 00:17:08,682
A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.
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00:17:08,717 --> 00:17:11,306
AND THEY RAILROADED THIS, UH,
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00:17:11,340 --> 00:17:13,756
NEW PHOTO I.D. LAW THROUGH.
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00:17:13,791 --> 00:17:16,311
INDIANA'S PHOTO I.D. LAW,
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00:17:16,345 --> 00:17:17,553
THE FIRST IN THE NATION,
616
00:17:17,588 --> 00:17:19,176
WAS QUICKLY CHALLENGED AND
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00:17:19,210 --> 00:17:20,522
EVENTUALLY WOUND UP IN THE U.S.
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00:17:20,556 --> 00:17:22,282
SUPREME COURT, WHERE IT WAS
619
00:17:22,317 --> 00:17:24,181
RULED CONSTITUTIONAL, EVEN
620
00:17:24,215 --> 00:17:25,389
THOUGH THERE HAD NEVER BEEN AN
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00:17:25,423 --> 00:17:27,149
INSTANCE OF VOTER IMPERSONATION
622
00:17:27,184 --> 00:17:28,771
IN INDIANA, THE ONLY TYPE OF
623
00:17:28,806 --> 00:17:30,739
VOTER FRAUD THE BILL ADDRESSES.
624
00:17:30,773 --> 00:17:32,292
BUT HEY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT
625
00:17:32,327 --> 00:17:33,431
KIND OF CRIMINAL ELEMENT YOU'RE
626
00:17:33,466 --> 00:17:35,640
GONNA FIND AT THE POLLS.
627
00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:36,710
WE WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT
628
00:17:36,745 --> 00:17:38,747
SOME 80- AND 90-YEAR-OLD NUNS IN
629
00:17:38,781 --> 00:17:40,645
INDIANA AND APPARENTLY THEY HAD
630
00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:42,337
HEARD THE NEW RULES THAT YOU
631
00:17:42,371 --> 00:17:43,786
HAVE TO COME WITH I.D., BUT THEY
632
00:17:43,821 --> 00:17:45,236
SHOWED UP WITH OUTDATED
633
00:17:45,271 --> 00:17:46,479
PASSPORTS AND SUCH AND THEY
634
00:17:46,513 --> 00:17:47,618
THOUGHT THAT THEY COULD STILL
635
00:17:47,652 --> 00:17:49,102
VOTE-- AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
636
00:17:49,137 --> 00:17:50,103
THEY WERE TURNED AWAY.
637
00:17:50,138 --> 00:17:52,450
THEY WERE BARRED FROM VOTING.
638
00:17:52,485 --> 00:17:54,418
THE NUNS WEREN'T ALONE.
639
00:17:54,452 --> 00:17:55,591
ACCORDING TO ONE STUDY,
640
00:17:55,626 --> 00:17:58,146
AN ESTIMATED 13% OF INDIANA'S
641
00:17:58,180 --> 00:17:59,699
REGISTERED VOTERS DON'T HAVE
642
00:17:59,733 --> 00:18:01,632
THE REQUIRED I.D.
643
00:18:01,666 --> 00:18:02,805
THE NUMBERS ARE EVEN HIGHER
644
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,600
AMONG STUDENTS, THE ELDERLY,
645
00:18:04,635 --> 00:18:08,363
AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND LATINOS.
646
00:18:08,397 --> 00:18:09,467
ALL OF THIS CAUSED QUITE
647
00:18:09,502 --> 00:18:11,193
A RUCKUS, SO I SOUGHT OUT
648
00:18:11,228 --> 00:18:12,574
ONE OF THE LAW'S AUTHORS
649
00:18:12,608 --> 00:18:14,472
IN THE INDIANA STATE SENATE.
650
00:18:14,507 --> 00:18:15,577
...DID YOU KNOW HOW
651
00:18:15,611 --> 00:18:17,406
CONTROVERSIAL THE LAW WOULD BE?
652
00:18:17,441 --> 00:18:19,167
HOW MUCH OF A BACKLASH THERE
653
00:18:19,201 --> 00:18:20,582
WOULD BE AGAINST IT?
654
00:18:20,616 --> 00:18:21,583
WELL, I WOULD QUESTION
655
00:18:21,617 --> 00:18:22,687
WHETHER THERE WAS THAT MUCH
656
00:18:22,722 --> 00:18:24,137
OF A BACKLASH AGAINST IT.
657
00:18:24,172 --> 00:18:25,414
WHEN I WENT BACK TO MY DISTRICT
658
00:18:25,449 --> 00:18:26,622
AND TALKED TO MY OWN
659
00:18:26,657 --> 00:18:28,245
CONSTITUENTS, FOR MANY OF THEM
660
00:18:28,279 --> 00:18:29,625
IT SEEMED TO BE A NO-BRAINER.
661
00:18:29,660 --> 00:18:31,662
THEY WERE USED TO SHOWING I.D.
662
00:18:31,696 --> 00:18:33,457
FOR A VARIETY OF COMMON TASKS,
663
00:18:33,491 --> 00:18:36,149
WHETHER IT WAS RENTING A MOVIE
664
00:18:36,184 --> 00:18:38,738
OR, UH... WRITING A CHECK,
665
00:18:38,772 --> 00:18:40,395
SO TO EXTEND THIS TO ENSURE
666
00:18:40,429 --> 00:18:41,499
THE INTEGRITY OF OUR ELECTION
667
00:18:41,534 --> 00:18:43,605
PROCESS FOR THE VAST MAJORITY
668
00:18:43,639 --> 00:18:46,159
OF MY CONSTITUENTS SEEMED LIKE
669
00:18:46,194 --> 00:18:47,471
SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE
670
00:18:47,505 --> 00:18:49,473
BEEN DONE A LONG TIME AGO.
671
00:18:49,507 --> 00:18:51,233
DESPITE THE STATED INTENTIONS
672
00:18:51,268 --> 00:18:52,717
OF THE LAW'S AUTHORS, MANY
673
00:18:52,752 --> 00:18:54,340
CITIZENS-- SOME OF THEM
674
00:18:54,374 --> 00:18:55,513
REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR
675
00:18:55,548 --> 00:18:56,583
DECADES-- SUDDENLY FOUND
676
00:18:56,618 --> 00:18:58,240
THEMSELVES NO LONGER ABLE
677
00:18:58,275 --> 00:18:59,310
TO VOTE.
678
00:18:59,345 --> 00:19:00,622
THEY WANTED TO SEE MY I.D.
679
00:19:00,656 --> 00:19:02,175
AND I SHOWED 'EM MY PICTURE I.D.
680
00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:03,521
AND THEY SAID, "WELL, THAT'S
681
00:19:03,556 --> 00:19:06,593
NOT GOOD BECAUSE IT'S TOO OLD."
682
00:19:06,628 --> 00:19:09,458
SO, UH, I DIDN'T GET TO VOTE.
683
00:19:09,493 --> 00:19:10,563
YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH 'EM
684
00:19:10,597 --> 00:19:11,633
VERY MUCH.
685
00:19:11,667 --> 00:19:13,393
WHATEVER POLITICS IS IN, THAT'S
686
00:19:13,428 --> 00:19:16,293
THE ONES THAT RUN THE SHOW.
687
00:19:16,327 --> 00:19:19,158
SO-- I MISSED A YEAR. [CHUCKLES]
688
00:19:19,192 --> 00:19:19,779
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
689
00:19:19,813 --> 00:19:20,711
EVERYBODY IN THAT POLL
690
00:19:20,745 --> 00:19:22,506
KNEW WHO YOU WERE. OH, YEAH.
691
00:19:22,540 --> 00:19:23,748
LIKE YOU NEEDED AN I.D.?
692
00:19:23,783 --> 00:19:24,715
THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW
693
00:19:24,749 --> 00:19:25,612
WHO YOU WERE?
694
00:19:25,647 --> 00:19:26,544
EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO YOU ARE.
695
00:19:26,579 --> 00:19:28,477
EVEN IN A SMALL TOWN, WHERE
696
00:19:28,512 --> 00:19:29,789
EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERYBODY AND
697
00:19:29,823 --> 00:19:32,343
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, NO I.D.
698
00:19:32,378 --> 00:19:33,724
MEANS NO VOTE.
699
00:19:33,758 --> 00:19:35,450
NOT SURPRISINGLY, MORE AND MORE
700
00:19:35,484 --> 00:19:37,693
VOTERS ARE MISSING OUT.
701
00:19:37,728 --> 00:19:38,660
Woman: WE HAVE THE STRICTEST
702
00:19:38,694 --> 00:19:40,593
VOTER I.D. LAW IN THE COUNTRY.
703
00:19:40,627 --> 00:19:41,628
SINCE I'VE BEEN CLERK, WHICH HAS
704
00:19:41,663 --> 00:19:43,216
BEEN SIX YEARS NOW, WE HAVE
705
00:19:43,251 --> 00:19:45,529
TURNED AWAY HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
706
00:19:45,563 --> 00:19:46,564
WHO HAVE NOT HAD THIS I.D.
707
00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:48,083
THAT THEY NEED.
708
00:19:48,117 --> 00:19:49,084
AND I WILL TELL YOU SOMETHING
709
00:19:49,118 --> 00:19:50,741
ELSE: EVERY SINGLE DAY PEOPLE
710
00:19:50,775 --> 00:19:53,502
WALK UP TO ME AND SAY, "I DON'T
711
00:19:53,537 --> 00:19:54,814
HAVE MY I.D." OR "IT EXPIRED"
712
00:19:54,848 --> 00:19:56,333
OR "MY KIDS TOLD ME I SHOULDN'T
713
00:19:56,367 --> 00:19:57,713
DRIVE ANYMORE" OR "MY PURSE WAS
714
00:19:57,748 --> 00:19:59,163
STOLEN YESTERDAY AND ELECTION
715
00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:00,302
DAY IS TOMORROW.
716
00:20:00,337 --> 00:20:01,717
WHAT CAN I DO?"
717
00:20:01,752 --> 00:20:03,063
THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THAT
718
00:20:03,098 --> 00:20:04,341
TRIPS PEOPLE UP.
719
00:20:04,375 --> 00:20:05,514
IT SHOULD NOT BE SO HARD.
720
00:20:05,549 --> 00:20:06,619
PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED.
721
00:20:06,653 --> 00:20:07,654
WE HAVE TERRIBLE VOTING
722
00:20:07,689 --> 00:20:08,586
IN INDIANA.
723
00:20:08,621 --> 00:20:09,622
I KNOW YOU'VE TALKED TO OTHERS
724
00:20:09,656 --> 00:20:11,071
WHO TALK ABOUT HOW WE ARE 48th
725
00:20:11,106 --> 00:20:12,072
OF THE 50 STATES IN PEOPLE
726
00:20:12,107 --> 00:20:13,177
WHO ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE.
727
00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:14,385
IT'S EMBARRASSING.
728
00:20:14,420 --> 00:20:15,421
IT'S SHAMEFUL.
729
00:20:15,455 --> 00:20:16,594
AND PART OF THE REASON, I HEAR
730
00:20:16,629 --> 00:20:18,734
EVERY DAY, "IT'S JUST TOO HARD."
731
00:20:18,769 --> 00:20:20,495
WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING THAT
732
00:20:20,529 --> 00:20:22,393
WE'VE BEEN ASKED TO DO IN TERMS
733
00:20:22,428 --> 00:20:24,119
OF MAKING IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE
734
00:20:24,153 --> 00:20:25,431
TO GET I.D.
735
00:20:25,465 --> 00:20:26,639
THEY CAN GET IT FOR FREE.
736
00:20:26,673 --> 00:20:28,088
WE'VE EXTENDED THE HOURS
737
00:20:28,123 --> 00:20:29,400
AT OUR B.M.V.
738
00:20:29,435 --> 00:20:31,091
WE'VE GIVEN AFFIDAVIT POWER
739
00:20:31,126 --> 00:20:32,507
TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE RELIGIOUS
740
00:20:32,541 --> 00:20:33,508
OBJECTIONS TO HAVING THEIR
741
00:20:33,542 --> 00:20:34,578
PHOTO TAKEN.
742
00:20:34,612 --> 00:20:35,751
WE'VE GIVEN THE RIGHT FOR
743
00:20:35,786 --> 00:20:37,615
THE INDIGENT TO BE WAIVED
744
00:20:37,650 --> 00:20:39,134
FROM GETTING AN I.D.
745
00:20:39,168 --> 00:20:40,791
IT'S, UM, IT'S AN EFFORT, BUT WE
746
00:20:40,825 --> 00:20:42,068
BELIEVE IT'S A MINIMAL AND
747
00:20:42,102 --> 00:20:43,103
REASONABLE EFFORT AND THAT'S
748
00:20:43,138 --> 00:20:44,035
WHAT THE COURTS HAVE FOUND
749
00:20:44,070 --> 00:20:45,036
AS WELL.
750
00:20:45,071 --> 00:20:46,175
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO
751
00:20:46,210 --> 00:20:47,073
SAY, "WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL?
752
00:20:47,107 --> 00:20:48,316
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A DRIVER'S
753
00:20:48,350 --> 00:20:50,110
LICENSE, GO TO THE D.M.V.
754
00:20:50,145 --> 00:20:51,284
AND GET A GOVERNMENT-ISSUED
755
00:20:51,319 --> 00:20:52,665
PHOTO I.D."
756
00:20:52,699 --> 00:20:54,045
WELL, I SAY THAT'S ALL WELL
757
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:55,426
AND GOOD ON PAPER, BECAUSE THE
758
00:20:55,461 --> 00:20:56,600
STATE DID PASS IN THEIR LAW THAT
759
00:20:56,634 --> 00:20:58,464
IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD A DRIVER'S
760
00:20:58,498 --> 00:21:00,362
LICENSE OR A STATE I.D., YOU CAN
761
00:21:00,397 --> 00:21:01,743
GET ONE FOR FREE, UM,
762
00:21:01,777 --> 00:21:03,745
FOR VOTING PURPOSES.
763
00:21:03,779 --> 00:21:06,126
WHAT THEY DON'T-- WHAT ISN'T
764
00:21:06,161 --> 00:21:07,749
CLEARLY ARTICULATED, THOUGH, IS
765
00:21:07,783 --> 00:21:09,406
THAT IT'S NOT REALLY FREE UNLESS
766
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,684
YOU HAVE A HOST OF DOCUMENTATION
767
00:21:11,718 --> 00:21:13,479
NEEDED TO ACQUIRE THAT.
768
00:21:13,513 --> 00:21:14,583
SAY YOU'RE BORN IN MARION
769
00:21:14,618 --> 00:21:15,722
COUNTY, WHERE INDIANAPOLIS
770
00:21:15,757 --> 00:21:16,792
IS LOCATED.
771
00:21:16,827 --> 00:21:18,069
YOU GO TO THE MARION COUNTY
772
00:21:18,104 --> 00:21:19,312
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
773
00:21:19,347 --> 00:21:20,451
YOU FILL OUT THIS FORM.
774
00:21:20,486 --> 00:21:21,487
UM, IT'S GOING TO COST YOU
775
00:21:21,521 --> 00:21:22,729
AROUND $12 TO GET YOUR BIRTH
776
00:21:22,764 --> 00:21:24,041
CERTIFICATE.
777
00:21:24,075 --> 00:21:25,318
FOR MOST PEOPLE, $12 IS NOT
778
00:21:25,353 --> 00:21:27,493
A BIG DEAL, BUT WHAT IF IT IS?
779
00:21:27,527 --> 00:21:29,046
THAT'S A FINANCIAL BARRIER.
780
00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,358
YOU THEN HAVE TO HAVE THIS FORM
781
00:21:30,392 --> 00:21:31,635
SIGNED BY A NOTARY PUBLIC,
782
00:21:31,669 --> 00:21:32,601
WHICH, AGAIN, IS GOING TO
783
00:21:32,636 --> 00:21:33,602
COST YOU SOMETHING.
784
00:21:33,637 --> 00:21:34,603
YOU GOTTA GO FIND ONE.
785
00:21:34,638 --> 00:21:35,639
YOU GOTTA FIND ONE, YOU GOTTA
786
00:21:35,673 --> 00:21:36,674
PAY FOR A NOTARY PUBLIC, SO,
787
00:21:36,709 --> 00:21:38,193
AGAIN, IS THE I.D. REALLY FREE?
788
00:21:38,227 --> 00:21:39,470
BUT THIS IS KIND OF THE KICKER
789
00:21:39,505 --> 00:21:41,127
HERE: THE NOTARY PUBLIC HAS
790
00:21:41,161 --> 00:21:43,094
TO MARK ONE OF THESE FOUR BOXES,
791
00:21:43,129 --> 00:21:44,475
THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT IN EITHER
792
00:21:44,510 --> 00:21:45,580
A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE,
793
00:21:45,614 --> 00:21:46,719
A VALID STATE IDENTIFICATION
794
00:21:46,753 --> 00:21:48,445
CARD, A VALID MILITARY CARD,
795
00:21:48,479 --> 00:21:49,584
OR A VALID PASSPORT.
796
00:21:49,618 --> 00:21:50,619
IF YOU HAD ANY OF THESE
797
00:21:50,654 --> 00:21:51,620
THINGS, YOU WOULDN'T NEED
798
00:21:51,655 --> 00:21:53,346
TO REQUEST YOUR--
799
00:21:53,381 --> 00:21:54,451
YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
800
00:21:54,485 --> 00:21:55,452
--BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
801
00:21:55,486 --> 00:21:56,453
SO IT'S KIND OF
802
00:21:56,487 --> 00:21:57,730
A CATCH-22? YES.
803
00:21:57,764 --> 00:22:00,595
THE VOTER I.D. LAWS ARE
804
00:22:00,629 --> 00:22:02,735
THE NEW, MODERN-DAY POLL TAX.
805
00:22:02,769 --> 00:22:04,115
THEY'RE NOT PREVENTING FRAUD.
806
00:22:04,150 --> 00:22:05,807
THEY'RE PREVENTING VOTING.
807
00:22:05,841 --> 00:22:07,602
I WOULD MAKE THE I.D.
808
00:22:07,636 --> 00:22:11,571
REQUIREMENT, UM, NO I.D. BECAUSE
809
00:22:11,606 --> 00:22:12,710
WE DON'T NEED IT, BECAUSE
810
00:22:12,745 --> 00:22:14,505
WE DON'T HAVE IMPERSONATION
811
00:22:14,540 --> 00:22:16,162
HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY.
812
00:22:16,196 --> 00:22:17,474
RIGHT NOW, WE ACTUALLY HAVE
813
00:22:17,508 --> 00:22:18,613
A FEDERAL LAW THAT REQUIRES WHEN
814
00:22:18,647 --> 00:22:20,580
YOU REGISTER, FOR THE FIRST TIME
815
00:22:20,615 --> 00:22:21,823
THAT YOU VOTE, YOU HAVE
816
00:22:21,857 --> 00:22:23,238
TO PROVIDE SOME KIND
817
00:22:23,272 --> 00:22:24,584
OF IDENTIFICATION, BUT IT'S
818
00:22:24,619 --> 00:22:25,689
MULTIPLE FORMS OF
819
00:22:25,723 --> 00:22:26,828
IDENTIFICATION.
820
00:22:26,862 --> 00:22:28,416
COULD BE YOUR EMPLOYEE I.D.,
821
00:22:28,450 --> 00:22:30,141
IT COULD BE YOUR CREDIT CARD,
822
00:22:30,176 --> 00:22:32,592
IT COULD BE A PAYCHECK, UM,
823
00:22:32,627 --> 00:22:33,731
THAT SHOWS THAT YOU ARE
824
00:22:33,766 --> 00:22:35,457
THE PERSON YOU ARE.
825
00:22:35,492 --> 00:22:36,803
NOW, NO I.D. MAY SOUND
826
00:22:36,838 --> 00:22:39,047
EXTREME, BUT IN FACT, MORE THAN
827
00:22:39,081 --> 00:22:40,462
HALF OUR STATES HAVE NEVER
828
00:22:40,497 --> 00:22:42,153
REQUIRED A PHOTO I.D.
829
00:22:42,188 --> 00:22:45,605
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
830
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,055
I CAUGHT UP WITH DEE DEE AT
831
00:22:47,089 --> 00:22:48,056
HER HOME IN RIPLEY COUNTY,
832
00:22:48,090 --> 00:22:49,368
WHERE SHE AND A GROUP OF HIGH
833
00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:51,059
SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE PREPARING
834
00:22:51,093 --> 00:22:53,613
FOR A SARAH PALIN RALLY.
835
00:22:53,648 --> 00:22:54,683
Benkie: O.K., EVERYBODY.
836
00:22:54,718 --> 00:22:55,684
THIS IS MO ROCCA. HI,
837
00:22:55,719 --> 00:22:57,203
HOW ARE YA? Students: HI!
838
00:22:57,237 --> 00:22:58,446
DEE DEE SUPPORTS
839
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,654
THE PHOTO I.D. LAW.
840
00:22:59,688 --> 00:23:01,241
WHAT ANGERS HER IS AN ITEM
841
00:23:01,276 --> 00:23:03,105
CALLED THE ABSENTEE BALLOT,
842
00:23:03,140 --> 00:23:04,486
A TOOL MIKE MARSHALL DEPENDS
843
00:23:04,521 --> 00:23:06,419
ON, AND ONE THAT REQUIRES
844
00:23:06,454 --> 00:23:08,663
NO PHOTO I.D. AT ALL.
845
00:23:08,697 --> 00:23:09,595
YOU HAVE TO SHOW
846
00:23:09,629 --> 00:23:10,596
YOUR PHOTO I.D. TO VOTE.
847
00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:11,769
WELL, YOU SHOULD.
848
00:23:11,804 --> 00:23:13,115
YOU HAVE TO SHOW YOUR PHOTO I.D.
849
00:23:13,150 --> 00:23:14,116
TO BLOCKBUSTER, YOU KNOW?
850
00:23:14,151 --> 00:23:15,083
I MEAN, O.K.
851
00:23:15,117 --> 00:23:16,222
I MEAN, HOW MANY TIMES DO WE
852
00:23:16,256 --> 00:23:17,430
HAVE TO WHIP OUT THE I.D.?
853
00:23:17,465 --> 00:23:18,431
JUST ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOR
854
00:23:18,466 --> 00:23:19,674
EVERYTHING, SO THAT'S GOOD, BUT
855
00:23:19,708 --> 00:23:21,572
FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS THERE'S,
856
00:23:21,607 --> 00:23:23,436
THERE'S SOME WIGGLE ROOM.
857
00:23:23,471 --> 00:23:24,437
THAT'S NOT GOOD.
858
00:23:24,472 --> 00:23:25,300
I THINK IT SHOULD BE
859
00:23:25,334 --> 00:23:26,163
THE SAME LEVEL.
860
00:23:26,197 --> 00:23:27,095
Rocca: SO IT CONCERNS YOU.
861
00:23:27,129 --> 00:23:28,061
IT CONCERNS ME GREATLY.
862
00:23:28,096 --> 00:23:29,097
I THINK IT IS A LONG-TERM
863
00:23:29,131 --> 00:23:29,787
PROBLEM.
864
00:23:29,822 --> 00:23:31,099
I THINK THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE
865
00:23:31,133 --> 00:23:34,482
THE LAW AND MAKE IT JUST AS--
866
00:23:34,516 --> 00:23:36,622
I DON'T WANT TO SAY HARD-- BUT
867
00:23:36,656 --> 00:23:39,487
TO ENSURE THAT WHEN PEOPLE VOTE,
868
00:23:39,521 --> 00:23:40,522
IT IS ACCURATE.
869
00:23:40,557 --> 00:23:41,523
THERE'S JUST SOME FISHY THINGS
870
00:23:41,558 --> 00:23:44,457
GOING ON EVEN... IN THE AREA.
871
00:23:44,492 --> 00:23:45,458
WITH ABSENTEE BALLOTS?
872
00:23:45,493 --> 00:23:46,459
YEAH.
873
00:23:46,494 --> 00:23:47,564
BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY
874
00:23:47,598 --> 00:23:49,531
ABSENTEE BALLOTS THAT ARE BEING
875
00:23:49,566 --> 00:23:51,775
CAST IN BIG STACKS, PEOPLE ARE
876
00:23:51,809 --> 00:23:54,398
BRINGING THEM IN BIG STACKS...
877
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:55,468
UH, I DON'T KNOW.
878
00:23:55,503 --> 00:23:57,056
I MEAN, IT AT LEAST GIVES
879
00:23:57,090 --> 00:23:58,437
YOU PAUSE.
880
00:23:58,471 --> 00:23:59,576
DEE DEE WAS CERTAINLY
881
00:23:59,610 --> 00:24:01,094
PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ABSENTEE
882
00:24:01,129 --> 00:24:02,613
BALLOT ISSUE, BUT I WONDERED
883
00:24:02,648 --> 00:24:03,787
IF THE AVERAGE HOOSIER WAS
884
00:24:03,821 --> 00:24:05,616
AS WORRIED AS SHE WAS.
885
00:24:05,651 --> 00:24:06,686
...ARE YOU CONCERNED
886
00:24:06,721 --> 00:24:09,758
ABOUT VOTER FRAUD?
887
00:24:09,793 --> 00:24:11,622
UH... YES.
888
00:24:11,657 --> 00:24:13,210
WHAT KIND?
889
00:24:13,244 --> 00:24:16,213
UH... DEMOCRATS.
890
00:24:16,247 --> 00:24:17,490
SIGNING THESE PEOPLE UP TO
891
00:24:17,525 --> 00:24:18,595
VOTE WHEN THEY AIN'T SUPPOSED
892
00:24:18,629 --> 00:24:21,080
TO VOTE, 73 TIMES FOR ONE GUY.
893
00:24:21,114 --> 00:24:22,495
THAT'S A CROCK OF BULL.
894
00:24:22,530 --> 00:24:23,496
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SAYING,
895
00:24:23,531 --> 00:24:24,601
PEOPLE, UH... MICKEY MOUSE
896
00:24:24,635 --> 00:24:25,705
IS REGISTERED TO VOTE.
897
00:24:25,740 --> 00:24:26,810
SO, YOU KNOW...
898
00:24:26,844 --> 00:24:27,776
ARE YOU CONCERNED THAT MICKEY
899
00:24:27,811 --> 00:24:28,812
MOUSE WOULD THEN SHOW UP
900
00:24:28,846 --> 00:24:30,192
AT THE POLLS, OR...?
901
00:24:30,227 --> 00:24:31,642
NO, BUT IF SOMEONE HAS AN
902
00:24:31,677 --> 00:24:34,127
ABSENTEE AND... I DON'T KNOW,
903
00:24:34,162 --> 00:24:35,232
IT COULD POSSIBLY HAPPEN.
904
00:24:35,266 --> 00:24:36,785
I COULD SEE THAT IT COULD.
905
00:24:36,820 --> 00:24:38,166
A LOT OF PEOPLE I TALKED
906
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,720
TO IN INDIANA ARE TERRIFIED.
907
00:24:40,755 --> 00:24:42,653
THEY'VE HEARD THAT VOTER FRAUD
908
00:24:42,688 --> 00:24:44,103
IS EVERYWHERE AND THAT THEIR
909
00:24:44,137 --> 00:24:45,207
VOTES MAY NOT END UP COUNTING
910
00:24:45,242 --> 00:24:46,519
AT ALL.
911
00:24:46,554 --> 00:24:47,727
WELL, THAT'S A REAL SHAME
912
00:24:47,762 --> 00:24:49,073
BECAUSE, UM, MOST PEOPLE DON'T
913
00:24:49,108 --> 00:24:50,765
REALIZE THIS, BUT VOTER FRAUD
914
00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:53,457
AND, BY WHICH I MEAN INELIGIBLE
915
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:54,700
PEOPLE SHOWING UP AT THE POLLS
916
00:24:54,734 --> 00:24:56,115
AND VOTING, IMPERSONATING
917
00:24:56,149 --> 00:24:57,496
ANOTHER VOTER, IS ACTUALLY
918
00:24:57,530 --> 00:24:59,601
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE.
919
00:24:59,636 --> 00:25:00,740
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ALMOST
920
00:25:00,775 --> 00:25:02,466
NEVER HAPPENS, UM... IT IS...
921
00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:04,123
AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO
922
00:25:04,157 --> 00:25:05,711
BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING THAN THEY
923
00:25:05,745 --> 00:25:08,541
ARE TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD.
924
00:25:08,576 --> 00:25:11,648
IT IS A SERIOUS CRIMINAL PENALTY
925
00:25:11,682 --> 00:25:12,718
TO COMMIT THIS KIND
926
00:25:12,752 --> 00:25:13,822
OF VOTER FRAUD.
927
00:25:13,857 --> 00:25:15,410
IT CARRIES $10,000 IN FINES
928
00:25:15,444 --> 00:25:17,170
AND FIVE YEARS IN PRISON AND
929
00:25:17,205 --> 00:25:18,344
IT'S REASONABLY EASY TO GET
930
00:25:18,378 --> 00:25:20,380
CAUGHT, AND BY CONTRAST, ALL YOU
931
00:25:20,415 --> 00:25:22,451
GAIN IS ONE MARGINAL VOTE.
932
00:25:22,486 --> 00:25:24,039
YOU CAN'T SWING AN ELECTION THAT
933
00:25:24,074 --> 00:25:25,696
WAY AND YOU RISK A WHOLE LOT.
934
00:25:25,731 --> 00:25:27,698
SO, UM, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR
935
00:25:27,733 --> 00:25:29,597
FIRST RECOMMENDATION?
936
00:25:29,631 --> 00:25:30,770
WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE
937
00:25:30,805 --> 00:25:32,082
A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS
938
00:25:32,116 --> 00:25:33,221
WITH THE VOTING SYSTEM.
939
00:25:33,255 --> 00:25:34,360
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ONE IS
940
00:25:34,394 --> 00:25:35,741
THE VOTER REGISTRATION SYSTEM.
941
00:25:35,775 --> 00:25:37,190
THIS IS THE NUMBER-ONE CAUSE
942
00:25:37,225 --> 00:25:39,054
OF VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND
943
00:25:39,089 --> 00:25:40,228
IT'S THE NUMBER-ONE SOURCE
944
00:25:40,262 --> 00:25:41,643
OF PRE-ELECTION DISPUTES
945
00:25:41,678 --> 00:25:43,127
WITH POLITICAL PARTIES,
946
00:25:43,162 --> 00:25:44,335
THE NUMBER-ONE AREA WHERE YOU
947
00:25:44,370 --> 00:25:45,716
CAN REALLY MANIPULATE WHO GETS
948
00:25:45,751 --> 00:25:47,200
TO VOTE AND TRY TO KNOCK OFF
949
00:25:47,235 --> 00:25:48,650
THE OTHER SIDE'S VOTERS.
950
00:25:48,685 --> 00:25:50,100
[♪...]
951
00:25:50,134 --> 00:25:52,102
BACK IN INDIANA, DEE DEE AND
952
00:25:52,136 --> 00:25:53,552
MIKE WERE HUSTLING TO GET ANY
953
00:25:53,586 --> 00:25:55,105
UNREGISTERED FOLKS ONTO THE
954
00:25:55,139 --> 00:25:56,624
VOTER ROLLS BEFORE THE STATE'S
955
00:25:56,658 --> 00:25:59,247
DEADLINE, WHICH COMES 29 DAYS
956
00:25:59,281 --> 00:26:01,352
BEFORE THE ELECTION.
957
00:26:01,387 --> 00:26:03,113
RIGHT NEXT DOOR IN OHIO,
958
00:26:03,147 --> 00:26:04,597
CITIZENS CAN REGISTER AND VOTE
959
00:26:04,632 --> 00:26:06,392
ON THE SAME DAY-- A PERFECT
960
00:26:06,426 --> 00:26:07,773
EXAMPLE OF THE EXTREME
961
00:26:07,807 --> 00:26:09,775
INCONSISTENCY AMONG AMERICA'S
962
00:26:09,809 --> 00:26:12,709
13,000 VOTING DISTRICTS.
963
00:26:12,743 --> 00:26:13,710
O.K., WELL,
964
00:26:13,744 --> 00:26:14,642
HERE ARE ABSENTEES.
965
00:26:14,676 --> 00:26:15,746
O.K., AND THEY ARE A PART OF
966
00:26:15,781 --> 00:26:16,747
THIS LITERATURE AND YOU DON'T
967
00:26:16,782 --> 00:26:18,093
HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT IF YOU
968
00:26:18,128 --> 00:26:18,991
DON'T WANT TO-- I MEAN,
969
00:26:19,025 --> 00:26:19,750
IT'S GOOD THOUGH. [CHUCKLES]
970
00:26:19,785 --> 00:26:21,683
TWO HERE, ONE THERE,
971
00:26:21,718 --> 00:26:22,684
ANOTHER HERE.
972
00:26:22,719 --> 00:26:23,720
YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO VOTE,
973
00:26:23,754 --> 00:26:24,617
IS THAT RIGHT?
974
00:26:24,652 --> 00:26:26,136
YES. ALL RIGHT!
975
00:26:26,170 --> 00:26:27,137
COME GET REGISTERED!
976
00:26:27,171 --> 00:26:28,069
Man passing on motorcycle:
977
00:26:28,103 --> 00:26:30,105
OBAMA! OBAMA! WHOO!
978
00:26:30,140 --> 00:26:31,106
HOW YOU DOING, MAN?
979
00:26:31,141 --> 00:26:32,245
FOR MIKE AND THE DEMOCRATS,
980
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,281
GETTING OUT THE
981
00:26:33,315 --> 00:26:34,593
AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTE IS
982
00:26:34,627 --> 00:26:36,077
AN IMPORTANT STRATEGY.
983
00:26:36,111 --> 00:26:37,009
WE'RE GONNA GET HIM IN,
984
00:26:37,043 --> 00:26:37,734
AREN'T WE?
985
00:26:37,768 --> 00:26:38,666
I HEARD THAT.
986
00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:39,598
WE'RE GONNA WIN INDIANA
987
00:26:39,632 --> 00:26:40,599
FOR HIM, AREN'T WE? YEP!
988
00:26:40,633 --> 00:26:41,634
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER
989
00:26:41,669 --> 00:26:43,049
THAT A DEMOCRAT HASN'T WON THE
990
00:26:43,084 --> 00:26:44,637
STATE IN A PRESIDENTIAL
991
00:26:44,672 --> 00:26:47,709
ELECTION SINCE L.B.J. IN 1964.
992
00:26:47,744 --> 00:26:48,710
YOU NEED TO REGISTER?
993
00:26:48,745 --> 00:26:50,539
[MIKE AND WOMAN LAUGH]
994
00:26:50,574 --> 00:26:52,300
WE NEED YOUR VOTE FOR OBAMA.
995
00:26:52,334 --> 00:26:53,508
[DOG BARKING]
996
00:26:53,542 --> 00:26:54,716
YOU'RE A SWEET LITTLE PUPPY.
997
00:26:54,751 --> 00:26:56,235
WHOO! THAT'S TAKES A LOT OF--
998
00:26:56,269 --> 00:26:57,754
[♪...]
999
00:26:57,788 --> 00:27:00,101
[SCRAPING BOOTS ON CONCRETE]
1000
00:27:00,135 --> 00:27:01,033
ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE,
1001
00:27:01,067 --> 00:27:02,068
GIRL? NO.
1002
00:27:02,103 --> 00:27:02,724
CAN WE SIGN YOU UP
1003
00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:04,346
SO YOU CAN VOTE THIS YEAR?
1004
00:27:04,381 --> 00:27:05,658
I THOUGHT CONVICTED FELONS
1005
00:27:05,693 --> 00:27:06,590
COULDN'T VOTE.
1006
00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:08,972
[TIRES SCREECH]
1007
00:27:09,006 --> 00:27:11,077
O.K., HOLD THE PHONE!
1008
00:27:11,112 --> 00:27:12,527
PEOPLE WHO HAVE SERVED THEIR
1009
00:27:12,561 --> 00:27:15,116
TIME FOR A FELONY CAN'T VOTE?
1010
00:27:15,150 --> 00:27:16,255
NO, IN INDIANA YOU CAN.
1011
00:27:16,289 --> 00:27:17,221
OH, I CAN?
1012
00:27:17,256 --> 00:27:18,257
THE REPUBLICANS TELL
1013
00:27:18,291 --> 00:27:19,292
EVERYBODY IF THEY HAVE A FELONY,
1014
00:27:19,327 --> 00:27:20,535
THEY CAN'T VOTE, JUST 'CAUSE
1015
00:27:20,569 --> 00:27:21,570
THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO,
1016
00:27:21,605 --> 00:27:23,365
BUT IN INDIANA YOU CAN.
1017
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,643
HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE
1018
00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:25,747
OF WHAT MAKES ELECTION LAWS
1019
00:27:25,782 --> 00:27:27,335
SO CONFUSING.
1020
00:27:27,369 --> 00:27:29,164
IN INDIANA, FORMER FELONS ARE
1021
00:27:29,199 --> 00:27:31,097
ALLOWED TO VOTE, BUT DOWN IN
1022
00:27:31,132 --> 00:27:32,720
MISSISSIPPI, PEOPLE CONVICTED
1023
00:27:32,754 --> 00:27:34,342
OF CERTAIN FELONIES LOSE ALL
1024
00:27:34,376 --> 00:27:36,137
VOTING RIGHTS FOR LIFE...
1025
00:27:36,171 --> 00:27:37,241
[PRISON DOOR SLAMS]
1026
00:27:37,276 --> 00:27:39,036
UNLESS-- AND GET THIS-- THE
1027
00:27:39,071 --> 00:27:40,382
GOVERNOR PARDONS THEM OR
1028
00:27:40,417 --> 00:27:42,108
THE LEGISLATURE PASSES A
1029
00:27:42,143 --> 00:27:44,076
PERSONALIZED BILL RESTORING
1030
00:27:44,110 --> 00:27:46,043
THEIR VOTING RIGHTS.
1031
00:27:46,078 --> 00:27:46,975
A CANTON MAN CONVICTED
1032
00:27:47,010 --> 00:27:48,114
OF VOTER FRAUD IS GIVEN
1033
00:27:48,149 --> 00:27:49,529
THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE.
1034
00:27:49,564 --> 00:27:50,703
TERRANCE WATTS WILL SERVE
1035
00:27:50,738 --> 00:27:52,049
10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR VOTING
1036
00:27:52,084 --> 00:27:53,637
ILLEGALLY TWICE.
1037
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:55,018
AFTER SERVING TIME FOR A
1038
00:27:55,052 --> 00:27:57,054
FELONY, WATTS-- WHO WAS STILL
1039
00:27:57,089 --> 00:27:58,711
ON THE REGISTRATION ROLLS--
1040
00:27:58,746 --> 00:28:01,058
BROKE THE LAW BY MERELY VOTING
1041
00:28:01,093 --> 00:28:03,198
IN TWO SEPARATE ELECTIONS.
1042
00:28:03,233 --> 00:28:04,683
HE'S SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE
1043
00:28:04,717 --> 00:28:06,236
IN 2020.
1044
00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:07,651
IT'S OUTRAGEOUS.
1045
00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:08,997
HERE IT IS, SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE
1046
00:28:09,032 --> 00:28:10,654
THEIR TIME, PAID THEIR DEBT
1047
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:12,345
TO SOCIETY.
1048
00:28:12,380 --> 00:28:13,726
THEY COME OUT, THEY'RE GETTING
1049
00:28:13,761 --> 00:28:15,210
THEIR LIFE TOGETHER AND THEY
1050
00:28:15,245 --> 00:28:16,660
ACTUALLY WANT TO PARTICIPATE
1051
00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:19,076
IN DEMOCRACY AND THEN THEY FIND
1052
00:28:19,111 --> 00:28:20,595
THEMSELVES IN THIS POSITION
1053
00:28:20,629 --> 00:28:21,700
PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY GOT
1054
00:28:21,734 --> 00:28:23,322
MISINFORMATION ABOUT VOTING AND
1055
00:28:23,356 --> 00:28:25,255
THEN GET A 10-YEAR SENTENCE?
1056
00:28:25,289 --> 00:28:27,050
IT'S RIDICULOUS.
1057
00:28:27,084 --> 00:28:29,052
BUT WE HAVE THESE ARCHAIC LAWS
1058
00:28:29,086 --> 00:28:30,260
ON THE ROLLS, WHICH ACTUALLY...
1059
00:28:30,294 --> 00:28:32,055
LIKE VIRGINIA AND FLORIDA,
1060
00:28:32,089 --> 00:28:33,159
FOR EXAMPLE--
1061
00:28:33,194 --> 00:28:34,747
FLORIDA HAS ABOUT 900,000 PEOPLE
1062
00:28:34,782 --> 00:28:36,576
WITH FELONY CONVICTIONS
1063
00:28:36,611 --> 00:28:38,164
WHO CANNOT VOTE.
1064
00:28:38,199 --> 00:28:39,752
WE REALLY NEED TO BE IN A PLACE
1065
00:28:39,787 --> 00:28:41,754
WHERE YOU'VE DONE YOUR TIME,
1066
00:28:41,789 --> 00:28:43,273
YOU JUST GET YOUR RIGHTS BACK.
1067
00:28:43,307 --> 00:28:44,619
Marshall: GET SEVEN BUTTONS,
1068
00:28:44,653 --> 00:28:46,103
AND UH... HOW MANY YARD SIGNS
1069
00:28:46,138 --> 00:28:47,139
DO YOU GUYS WANT?
1070
00:28:47,173 --> 00:28:48,657
24 HOURS BEFORE THE
1071
00:28:48,692 --> 00:28:50,487
REGISTRATION DEADLINE AND BOTH
1072
00:28:50,521 --> 00:28:52,247
PARTIES ARE STILL AT IT.
1073
00:28:52,282 --> 00:28:54,456
ALL THE LEGWORK AND LONG HOURS
1074
00:28:54,491 --> 00:28:55,630
SEEM TO BE PAYING OFF: MORE
1075
00:28:55,664 --> 00:28:58,460
THAN 740,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
1076
00:28:58,495 --> 00:29:01,567
ADDED TO INDIANA'S VOTER ROLLS.
1077
00:29:01,601 --> 00:29:03,189
BUT IS THIS PIECEMEAL APPROACH,
1078
00:29:03,224 --> 00:29:04,777
REGISTERING ONE NEW VOTER AT
1079
00:29:04,812 --> 00:29:07,711
A TIME, REALLY THE BEST WAY?
1080
00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:09,195
WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW
1081
00:29:09,230 --> 00:29:10,610
INDUSTRIALIZED DEMOCRACIES RIGHT
1082
00:29:10,645 --> 00:29:12,129
NOW THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SYSTEM
1083
00:29:12,164 --> 00:29:13,752
OF UNIVERSAL VOTER REGISTRATION,
1084
00:29:13,786 --> 00:29:15,339
WHERE THE GOVERNMENT
1085
00:29:15,374 --> 00:29:17,065
AUTOMATICALLY AND PERMANENTLY
1086
00:29:17,100 --> 00:29:19,102
ENSURES THAT EACH ELIGIBLE VOTER
1087
00:29:19,136 --> 00:29:20,689
IS ON THE ROLLS.
1088
00:29:20,724 --> 00:29:22,036
THERE ARE 50 MILLION AMERICANS
1089
00:29:22,070 --> 00:29:24,003
WHO ARE ELIGIBLE VOTERS WHO ARE
1090
00:29:24,038 --> 00:29:25,177
NOT ON THE VOTER ROLLS.
1091
00:29:25,211 --> 00:29:27,144
WE HAVE NOW A REAL OPPORTUNITY
1092
00:29:27,179 --> 00:29:28,594
TO MODERNIZE THE SYSTEM AND
1093
00:29:28,628 --> 00:29:29,733
REFORM IT AND TO ACTUALLY
1094
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:32,046
AUTOMATICALLY AND PERMANENTLY
1095
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,599
ENSURE THAT ALL ELIGIBLE
1096
00:29:33,633 --> 00:29:35,635
CITIZENS ARE ON THE VOTER ROLLS.
1097
00:29:35,670 --> 00:29:38,017
VIRTUALLY ALL AMERICANS HAVE
1098
00:29:38,052 --> 00:29:39,260
THEIR INFORMATION IN OTHER
1099
00:29:39,294 --> 00:29:41,055
GOVERNMENT LISTS: IN DRIVER'S
1100
00:29:41,089 --> 00:29:42,504
LICENSE LISTS, IN PUBLIC
1101
00:29:42,539 --> 00:29:44,541
ASSISTANCE AGENCY LISTS, IN TAX
1102
00:29:44,575 --> 00:29:47,199
LISTS, IN SCHOOL LISTS AND MOST
1103
00:29:47,233 --> 00:29:48,476
OF THOSE LISTS HAVE BEEN VERY
1104
00:29:48,510 --> 00:29:50,064
WELL VETTED AND VOTERS HAVE
1105
00:29:50,098 --> 00:29:51,444
PROVIDED A LOT OF INFORMATION TO
1106
00:29:51,479 --> 00:29:53,308
THOSE OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
1107
00:29:53,343 --> 00:29:55,034
SO THIS IS A VERY SECURE-- MUCH
1108
00:29:55,069 --> 00:29:56,380
MORE SECURE THAN OUR CURRENT
1109
00:29:56,415 --> 00:29:57,761
SYSTEM-- AND VERY ACCURATE WAY
1110
00:29:57,796 --> 00:29:59,211
OF GETTING MANY, MANY MORE
1111
00:29:59,245 --> 00:30:00,799
ELIGIBLE VOTERS ON THE ROLLS.
1112
00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:02,214
BUT WHILE PEOPLE LIKE WENDY
1113
00:30:02,248 --> 00:30:03,525
ARE ADVOCATING FOR GETTING MORE
1114
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,044
VOTERS ON THE ROLLS,
1115
00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:06,149
OTHERS ARGUE FOR BEING
1116
00:30:06,183 --> 00:30:07,702
MORE SELECTIVE.
1117
00:30:07,736 --> 00:30:09,186
I'VE SAID, AND CRITICIZED
1118
00:30:09,221 --> 00:30:11,602
HEAVILY BECAUSE I SAID THIS,
1119
00:30:11,637 --> 00:30:12,603
BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD
1120
00:30:12,638 --> 00:30:14,260
BE A CIVICS TEST.
1121
00:30:14,295 --> 00:30:15,744
NOW, I KNOW WE CAN'T, I KNOW
1122
00:30:15,779 --> 00:30:18,644
THE, UH, VOTER ACT OF '65
1123
00:30:18,678 --> 00:30:20,577
CHANGED A LOT OF THINGS,
1124
00:30:20,611 --> 00:30:21,750
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY WE DON'T
1125
00:30:21,785 --> 00:30:23,235
EXPECT A CITIZEN OF THIS
1126
00:30:23,269 --> 00:30:26,203
COUNTRY, BORN HERE, TO AT LEAST
1127
00:30:26,238 --> 00:30:28,619
BE AS INFORMED ABOUT THE
1128
00:30:28,654 --> 00:30:30,725
GOVERNMENT THAT HE OR SHE LIVES
1129
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:32,761
UNDER AS WE EXPECT FROM AN
1130
00:30:32,796 --> 00:30:35,005
IMMIGRANT WHO COMES HERE,
1131
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,248
AND HAS TO TAKE A TEST
1132
00:30:36,282 --> 00:30:38,319
IN ORDER TO BECOME A CITIZEN.
1133
00:30:38,353 --> 00:30:39,768
AND BELIEVE ME, LOTS OF BROWN
1134
00:30:39,803 --> 00:30:41,736
PEOPLE, LOTS OF BLACK PEOPLE,
1135
00:30:41,770 --> 00:30:43,220
LOTS OF MINORITIES PASS
1136
00:30:43,255 --> 00:30:44,463
THAT TEST. RIGHT.
1137
00:30:44,497 --> 00:30:45,982
...TOM TANCREDO'S TEST ISN'T
1138
00:30:46,016 --> 00:30:47,604
SO FAR-FETCHED.
1139
00:30:47,638 --> 00:30:49,606
UNTIL 1965, DOZENS OF STATES
1140
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,297
REQUIRED CERTAIN VOTERS TO PASS
1141
00:30:51,332 --> 00:30:53,990
ONE TEST OR ANOTHER.
1142
00:30:54,024 --> 00:30:55,612
SO HISTORICALLY, WHO'S HAD THE
1143
00:30:55,646 --> 00:30:58,546
RIGHT TO VOTE AND WHO HASN'T?
1144
00:30:58,580 --> 00:31:00,134
WELL, WHITE GUYS WROTE THE
1145
00:31:00,168 --> 00:31:01,652
RULES, SO INITIALLY THEY WERE
1146
00:31:01,687 --> 00:31:02,653
THE ONLY ONES WHO GOT
1147
00:31:02,688 --> 00:31:03,378
THE PRIVILEGE.
1148
00:31:03,413 --> 00:31:05,794
HEY-HO...!
1149
00:31:05,829 --> 00:31:08,142
RICH, LAND-OWNING WHITE GUYS.
1150
00:31:08,176 --> 00:31:09,384
OH, MAN!
1151
00:31:09,419 --> 00:31:10,420
AFTER A WHILE THEY LET THE
1152
00:31:10,454 --> 00:31:12,077
POOR WHITE GUYS VOTE.
1153
00:31:12,111 --> 00:31:13,975
YEE-HAW!
1154
00:31:14,010 --> 00:31:15,356
AND ODDLY, BLACK GUYS
1155
00:31:15,390 --> 00:31:16,357
IN A FEW STATES.
1156
00:31:16,391 --> 00:31:17,703
THREE-FIFTHS OF MY BEST
1157
00:31:17,737 --> 00:31:20,016
FRIENDS ARE BLACK!
1158
00:31:20,050 --> 00:31:21,603
THAT ENDED PRETTY QUICKLY.
1159
00:31:21,638 --> 00:31:22,777
EVENTUALLY THE IRISH WERE
1160
00:31:22,811 --> 00:31:24,606
ALLOWED TO VOTE, AS WERE SOME
1161
00:31:24,641 --> 00:31:26,332
NON-CITIZENS, BUT ONLY IF THEY
1162
00:31:26,367 --> 00:31:27,747
WERE WHITE AND AS LONG AS THEY
1163
00:31:27,782 --> 00:31:29,611
COULD PAY THE POLL TAX.
1164
00:31:29,646 --> 00:31:30,750
A FEW WOMEN COULD VOTE FOR A
1165
00:31:30,785 --> 00:31:32,235
LITTLE WHILE UNTIL THEY
1166
00:31:32,269 --> 00:31:33,374
STOPPED THAT.
1167
00:31:33,408 --> 00:31:35,203
AND BLACK PEOPLE AGAIN ALSO FOR
1168
00:31:35,238 --> 00:31:36,618
A LITTLE WHILE UNTIL THEY
1169
00:31:36,653 --> 00:31:38,103
STOPPED THAT AGAIN.
1170
00:31:38,137 --> 00:31:39,207
WOMEN FINALLY GOT THE RIGHT TO
1171
00:31:39,242 --> 00:31:41,313
VOTE IN 1920, BUT THERE WERE
1172
00:31:41,347 --> 00:31:43,211
MAJOR ROADBLOCKS FOR AFRICAN
1173
00:31:43,246 --> 00:31:46,249
AMERICANS, LIKE LITERACY TESTS.
1174
00:31:46,283 --> 00:31:48,216
THE KIND WITH QUESTIONS LIKE,
1175
00:31:48,251 --> 00:31:49,562
"HOW MANY BUBBLES ARE IN A
1176
00:31:49,597 --> 00:31:51,081
BAR OF SOAP?"
1177
00:31:51,116 --> 00:31:52,186
I'M NOT KIDDING.
1178
00:31:52,220 --> 00:31:54,084
THAT PLAN WAS SO SUCCESSFUL
1179
00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:56,017
THAT ONLY 5% OF MISSISSIPPI'S
1180
00:31:56,052 --> 00:31:57,639
ELIGIBLE BLACK VOTERS HAD
1181
00:31:57,674 --> 00:32:01,126
MANAGED TO REGISTER AS OF 1960.
1182
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,714
FINALLY, IN 1965, L.B.J.
1183
00:32:03,749 --> 00:32:06,131
SIGNED THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT--
1184
00:32:06,165 --> 00:32:08,271
WIPING OUT LITERACY TESTS.
1185
00:32:08,305 --> 00:32:10,687
IT WASN'T UNTIL 1971,
1186
00:32:10,721 --> 00:32:11,791
THANKS TO VIETNAM AND THE
1187
00:32:11,826 --> 00:32:13,690
DRAFT, THAT WE DECIDED TO LET
1188
00:32:13,724 --> 00:32:15,450
18-YEAR-OLDS VOTE.
1189
00:32:15,485 --> 00:32:16,451
AND THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO
1190
00:32:16,486 --> 00:32:18,177
LIVE IN D.C. WHO DON'T HAVE
1191
00:32:18,212 --> 00:32:19,765
FULL VOTING RIGHTS OR
1192
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:21,111
EVEN A SENATOR.
1193
00:32:21,146 --> 00:32:22,250
THEY HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN
1194
00:32:22,285 --> 00:32:23,458
THE HOUSE, EXCEPT SHE DOESN'T
1195
00:32:23,493 --> 00:32:27,048
GET TO VOTE.
1196
00:32:27,083 --> 00:32:28,153
AND THAT'S WHO GETS TO
1197
00:32:28,187 --> 00:32:31,018
VOTE IN AMERICA.
1198
00:32:31,052 --> 00:32:34,607
[♪...]
1199
00:32:34,642 --> 00:32:35,608
NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE
1200
00:32:35,643 --> 00:32:36,713
REGISTERED, THOUGH, NOT ALL
1201
00:32:36,747 --> 00:32:38,784
VOTERS ARE CREATED EQUAL.
1202
00:32:38,818 --> 00:32:40,027
I SET OUT TO MEET THOSE
1203
00:32:40,061 --> 00:32:42,098
EXCLUSIVE FEW WHO ACTUALLY GET
1204
00:32:42,132 --> 00:32:43,375
TO CAST THEIR VOTE FOR
1205
00:32:43,409 --> 00:32:45,377
PRESIDENT: THE PRESIDENTIAL
1206
00:32:45,411 --> 00:32:47,655
ELECTORS.
1207
00:32:47,689 --> 00:32:50,313
...WELL, THIS IS IT.
1208
00:32:50,347 --> 00:32:53,350
I'VE ARRIVED IN INDIANAPOLIS
1209
00:32:53,385 --> 00:32:55,249
AND I'M GOING TO GO MEET MY
1210
00:32:55,283 --> 00:32:59,253
FIRST ELECTOR.
1211
00:32:59,287 --> 00:33:01,117
...MEET BEN LEATHERBURY--
1212
00:33:01,151 --> 00:33:02,325
A FRESHMAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
1213
00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:04,120
INDIANA AND A DEMOCRATIC
1214
00:33:04,154 --> 00:33:06,018
ELECTOR FROM DEE DEE AND MIKE'S
1215
00:33:06,053 --> 00:33:07,606
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
1216
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,194
BEN'S FATHER WAS AN ELECTOR FOR
1217
00:33:09,228 --> 00:33:12,059
JOHN KERRY IN 2004.
1218
00:33:12,093 --> 00:33:13,405
THIS TIME AROUND HE'S HANDED
1219
00:33:13,439 --> 00:33:17,098
THE JOB OFF TO BEN, AGE 19.
1220
00:33:17,133 --> 00:33:18,306
...IT KIND OF KICKS ASS THAT
1221
00:33:18,341 --> 00:33:20,239
YOU'RE AN ELECTOR AND YOU'RE 19.
1222
00:33:20,274 --> 00:33:22,034
YEAH, I LIKE IT.
1223
00:33:22,069 --> 00:33:24,381
I MEAN, I GET TO GO TO THE STATE
1224
00:33:24,416 --> 00:33:26,349
CAPITOL AND CAST A HISTORIC VOTE
1225
00:33:26,383 --> 00:33:28,109
FOR BARACK OBAMA AND HOPEFULLY
1226
00:33:28,144 --> 00:33:29,179
HE'LL BE THE FIRST AFRICAN
1227
00:33:29,214 --> 00:33:31,388
AMERICAN PRESIDENT, SO...
1228
00:33:31,423 --> 00:33:32,803
AND IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME.
1229
00:33:32,838 --> 00:33:34,081
WHAT IF BETWEEN NOVEMBER 4th
1230
00:33:34,115 --> 00:33:35,358
AND DECEMBER 15th, BARACK OBAMA
1231
00:33:35,392 --> 00:33:36,704
DOES SOMETHING THAT REALLY TICKS
1232
00:33:36,738 --> 00:33:38,602
YOU OFF, LIKE SOMETHING CRAZY,
1233
00:33:38,637 --> 00:33:40,087
LIKE HE STEALS SOMEONE'S CAR...
1234
00:33:40,121 --> 00:33:41,191
O.K.
1235
00:33:41,226 --> 00:33:42,158
JUST FOR ARGUMENT'S SAKE?
1236
00:33:42,192 --> 00:33:44,160
I COULD VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN
1237
00:33:44,194 --> 00:33:45,368
AND THEN THEY GET MY ELECTORAL
1238
00:33:45,402 --> 00:33:47,128
VOTE, BUT IN SOME STATES--
1239
00:33:47,163 --> 00:33:49,061
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT INDIANA--
1240
00:33:49,096 --> 00:33:50,752
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SIGN AN OATH
1241
00:33:50,787 --> 00:33:52,099
AND SAYING THAT YOU WOULD VOTE
1242
00:33:52,133 --> 00:33:53,341
FOR THE PERSON YOU DO,
1243
00:33:53,376 --> 00:33:54,342
BUT THERE'S NO LAW AGAINST IT,
1244
00:33:54,377 --> 00:33:55,516
SO... YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PAY,
1245
00:33:55,550 --> 00:33:56,655
LIKE, A PENALTY.
1246
00:33:56,689 --> 00:33:57,725
I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT WORKS.
1247
00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:00,072
SO, UM...
1248
00:34:00,107 --> 00:34:03,248
WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DOES
1249
00:34:03,282 --> 00:34:05,319
SOMEBODY HAVE TO HAVE TO BECOME
1250
00:34:05,353 --> 00:34:06,389
AN ELECTOR?
1251
00:34:06,423 --> 00:34:07,390
THERE'S NOT REALLY ANY
1252
00:34:07,424 --> 00:34:08,598
QUALIFICATIONS, IT'S MORE OF
1253
00:34:08,632 --> 00:34:09,254
WHAT YOU CAN'T DO.
1254
00:34:09,288 --> 00:34:10,324
YOU CAN'T REBEL AGAINST THE
1255
00:34:10,358 --> 00:34:10,979
GOVERNMENT.
1256
00:34:11,014 --> 00:34:12,084
IF YOU'VE DONE THAT BEFORE,
1257
00:34:12,119 --> 00:34:13,154
THAT'S, THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO
1258
00:34:13,189 --> 00:34:14,017
BECOME AN ELECTOR--
1259
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:14,707
HAVE YOU DONE THAT?
1260
00:34:14,742 --> 00:34:15,639
NO, I HAVEN'T.
1261
00:34:15,674 --> 00:34:16,675
HAVE YOU COME CLOSE?
1262
00:34:16,709 --> 00:34:18,608
NOT TOO CLOSE.
1263
00:34:18,642 --> 00:34:21,059
AND THEN, UM, ANOTHER THING IS
1264
00:34:21,093 --> 00:34:22,163
THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO HAVE
1265
00:34:22,198 --> 00:34:24,131
A HIGH OFFICE IN STATE POLITICS,
1266
00:34:24,165 --> 00:34:25,649
I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT.
1267
00:34:25,684 --> 00:34:26,754
SO, I HOPE YOU LEARNED A LITTLE
1268
00:34:26,788 --> 00:34:27,479
BIT MORE ABOUT THE
1269
00:34:27,513 --> 00:34:28,342
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
1270
00:34:28,376 --> 00:34:29,377
I THINK I DID AND THIS
1271
00:34:29,412 --> 00:34:30,516
COLLEGE IS NOT TOO BAD EITHER.
1272
00:34:30,551 --> 00:34:31,483
YEAH, IT'S ALL RIGHT.
1273
00:34:31,517 --> 00:34:32,070
WELL, TAKE CARE.
1274
00:34:32,104 --> 00:34:33,588
ALL RIGHT, SEE YA LATER.
1275
00:34:33,623 --> 00:34:37,247
[DOORBELL DINGS]
1276
00:34:37,282 --> 00:34:37,903
HELLO.
1277
00:34:37,937 --> 00:34:39,387
HI, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT A
1278
00:34:39,422 --> 00:34:41,803
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR LIVES HERE.
1279
00:34:41,838 --> 00:34:42,528
UH, THAT'S ME.
1280
00:34:42,563 --> 00:34:43,495
I'M DAVID BUSKILL.
1281
00:34:43,529 --> 00:34:45,117
OH, GREAT, I'M MO ROCCA.
1282
00:34:45,152 --> 00:34:46,360
HI, NICE TO MEET YOU!
1283
00:34:46,394 --> 00:34:48,016
BEN'S REPUBLICAN COUNTERPART,
1284
00:34:48,051 --> 00:34:49,466
DAVID BUSKILL, ALSO GREW UP
1285
00:34:49,501 --> 00:34:51,296
AROUND POLITICS.
1286
00:34:51,330 --> 00:34:52,400
HE'S STAYED INVOLVED AS A
1287
00:34:52,435 --> 00:34:53,574
CONGRESSIONAL STAFFER,
1288
00:34:53,608 --> 00:34:55,334
AMONG OTHER POSITIONS.
1289
00:34:55,369 --> 00:34:58,026
I GUESS MY FIRST QUESTION IS,
1290
00:34:58,061 --> 00:35:00,236
WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE A
1291
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:02,479
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR?
1292
00:35:02,514 --> 00:35:03,411
IT'S PRETTY-- I MEAN,
1293
00:35:03,446 --> 00:35:05,344
IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE ALWAYS
1294
00:35:05,379 --> 00:35:06,552
ACTUALLY WANTED TO DO WHEN I
1295
00:35:06,587 --> 00:35:07,519
LEARNED ABOUT WHAT AN
1296
00:35:07,553 --> 00:35:09,383
ELECTOR WAS.
1297
00:35:09,417 --> 00:35:11,143
I WAS PROBABLY 9, 10.
1298
00:35:11,178 --> 00:35:12,386
I GUESS THAT'S AROUND 6th GRADE,
1299
00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:14,664
AND UH, HOW I BECAME AN ELECTOR,
1300
00:35:14,698 --> 00:35:16,493
I JUST KIND OF ASKED ABOUT IT.
1301
00:35:16,528 --> 00:35:17,632
SO, ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS
1302
00:35:17,667 --> 00:35:18,323
ASK? THAT'S BASICALLY HOW
1303
00:35:18,357 --> 00:35:19,703
I BECAME-- I KNOW IT MAY BE A
1304
00:35:19,738 --> 00:35:20,739
DIFFERENT PROCESS FOR EVERYBODY
1305
00:35:20,773 --> 00:35:22,223
ELSE, BUT I JUST ASKED.
1306
00:35:22,258 --> 00:35:23,259
DO YOU FEEL A LITTLE BIT
1307
00:35:23,293 --> 00:35:26,607
CLOSER TO THE SEAT OF POWER
1308
00:35:26,641 --> 00:35:28,333
HAVING SIRED SOMEBODY WHO
1309
00:35:28,367 --> 00:35:29,092
ACTUALLY GETS TO VOTE
1310
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:29,713
FOR PRESIDENT?
1311
00:35:29,748 --> 00:35:31,646
IT'S BEEN EXCITING BEING--
1312
00:35:31,681 --> 00:35:33,165
WELL, DAVID AND BEN WERE
1313
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:34,511
READY, WILLING AND ABLE TO CAST
1314
00:35:34,546 --> 00:35:36,582
THEIR ALL-IMPORTANT VOTES.
1315
00:35:36,617 --> 00:35:38,239
BUT BEFORE THE ELECTORS REPORT
1316
00:35:38,274 --> 00:35:40,172
FOR DUTY, YOU AND I HAVE TO
1317
00:35:40,207 --> 00:35:41,587
CAST OUR BALLOTS.
1318
00:35:41,622 --> 00:35:44,211
IT'S A COMPLICATED PROCESS.
1319
00:35:44,245 --> 00:35:45,350
DIRECTING THE OPERATION IN
1320
00:35:45,384 --> 00:35:47,145
RIPLEY COUNTY IS REPUBLICAN
1321
00:35:47,179 --> 00:35:48,525
GINGER BRADFORD.
1322
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:49,526
LIKE ALL COUNTY CLERKS IN
1323
00:35:49,561 --> 00:35:52,426
INDIANA, SHE RUNS THE SHOW.
1324
00:35:52,460 --> 00:35:53,185
HOW DO YOU DO?
1325
00:35:53,220 --> 00:35:54,324
I'M FINE, THANK YOU.
1326
00:35:54,359 --> 00:35:56,154
YOU'RE THE WOMAN WHO MAKES IT
1327
00:35:56,188 --> 00:35:57,085
ALL HAPPEN HERE.
1328
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,604
I TRY, YES.
1329
00:35:58,639 --> 00:35:59,640
WHAT IS SHE DOING?
1330
00:35:59,674 --> 00:36:01,607
SHE'S DOING ABSENTEE VOTING.
1331
00:36:01,642 --> 00:36:02,539
THIS WONDERFUL LADY,
1332
00:36:02,574 --> 00:36:05,093
ROSALIND McKITTRICK, HAS VOTED
1333
00:36:05,128 --> 00:36:05,749
AND NOW SHE'S BRINGING HER
1334
00:36:05,784 --> 00:36:06,681
BALLOT BACK IN HERE AND
1335
00:36:06,716 --> 00:36:08,338
SHE'S PROCESSING IT.
1336
00:36:08,373 --> 00:36:09,512
NOW, WAIT A MINUTE, DID SHE
1337
00:36:09,546 --> 00:36:10,513
SHOW AN I.D.?
1338
00:36:10,547 --> 00:36:11,307
YES, SHE DID.
1339
00:36:11,341 --> 00:36:12,204
SHE SHOWED HER I.D.
1340
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:13,309
WHEN SHE CAME IN.
1341
00:36:13,343 --> 00:36:14,241
IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING,
1342
00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:15,690
ABSENTEE VOTERS DO HAVE TO SHOW
1343
00:36:15,725 --> 00:36:17,209
I.D. IF THEY TURN IN THEIR
1344
00:36:17,244 --> 00:36:18,555
BALLOT IN PERSON.
1345
00:36:18,590 --> 00:36:19,487
IF THEY MAIL IT IN,
1346
00:36:19,522 --> 00:36:20,488
THEN THEY DON'T.
1347
00:36:20,523 --> 00:36:21,386
YEAH, I KNOW IT DOESN'T
1348
00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:22,697
MAKE SENSE.
1349
00:36:22,732 --> 00:36:24,112
NOW WHEN SHE GETS DONE HERE,
1350
00:36:24,147 --> 00:36:25,148
THEY'LL PUT THIS IN.
1351
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:26,563
WE HAVE A BLACK BOX SITTING OVER
1352
00:36:26,598 --> 00:36:28,255
HERE AND IT WILL GO IN THIS
1353
00:36:28,289 --> 00:36:29,532
BLACK BOX.
1354
00:36:29,566 --> 00:36:30,567
AND THIS BOX IS UNDER LOCK
1355
00:36:30,602 --> 00:36:32,224
AND KEY-- SEE?
1356
00:36:32,259 --> 00:36:33,570
OH, I WANTED TO PUT IT IN.
1357
00:36:33,605 --> 00:36:35,434
[LAUGHS] NO, YOU
1358
00:36:35,469 --> 00:36:36,504
CAN'T TOUCH IT.
1359
00:36:36,539 --> 00:36:37,643
SHE WAS APPOINTED BY THE COUNTY
1360
00:36:37,678 --> 00:36:39,576
CHAIRMAN FOR THE DEMOCRATS AND
1361
00:36:39,611 --> 00:36:41,337
THIS WOMAN WAS APPOINTED BY THE
1362
00:36:41,371 --> 00:36:42,579
COUNTY CHAIRMAN OF THE
1363
00:36:42,614 --> 00:36:44,098
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
1364
00:36:44,132 --> 00:36:44,788
Rocca: SHE'S A DEMOCRAT.
1365
00:36:44,823 --> 00:36:45,789
IF IT TURNED OUT THAT YOU KNEW
1366
00:36:45,824 --> 00:36:46,790
THAT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WERE
1367
00:36:46,825 --> 00:36:47,791
REPUBLICANS AND YOU GO DOWN TO
1368
00:36:47,826 --> 00:36:48,792
THE POST OFFICE TOGETHER AND SHE
1369
00:36:48,827 --> 00:36:50,173
SAYS, "WAIT A MINUTE, I GOTTA GO
1370
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:51,174
USE THE LADIES' ROOM."
1371
00:36:51,209 --> 00:36:52,175
YOU COULD JUST GO [WHOOSH]
1372
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:53,314
AND PUT THEM IN THE TRASH CAN.
1373
00:36:53,349 --> 00:36:54,626
OH NO, I'D GET PUT IN JAIL.
1374
00:36:54,660 --> 00:36:56,421
WHAT'S THAT?
1375
00:36:56,455 --> 00:36:57,491
SHE'D BE PUT IN JAIL.
1376
00:36:57,525 --> 00:36:58,492
OH, YOU'D BE PUT IN JAIL.
1377
00:36:58,526 --> 00:37:00,390
NO, THAT'S WHY WE GO
1378
00:37:00,425 --> 00:37:01,253
TOGETHER.
1379
00:37:01,288 --> 00:37:01,909
SO YOU STAY TOGETHER.
1380
00:37:01,943 --> 00:37:03,221
SO IT KEEPS YOU, IT'S LIKE A
1381
00:37:03,255 --> 00:37:04,463
BUDDY SYSTEM BUT IT'S ALSO,
1382
00:37:04,498 --> 00:37:07,501
LIKE, TO KEEP EACH OTHER HONEST.
1383
00:37:07,535 --> 00:37:08,605
...I DOUBTED THAT ANY OF THESE
1384
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,262
NICE WOMEN HAD EVER EVEN STOLEN
1385
00:37:10,297 --> 00:37:12,126
A RECIPE, BUT I WAS IMPRESSED
1386
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,093
WITH THEIR SECURITY.
1387
00:37:14,128 --> 00:37:15,198
NOW, WE'VE GOT A DEMOCRAT
1388
00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,096
LOCK ON ONE SIDE AND A
1389
00:37:17,131 --> 00:37:18,132
REPUBLICAN LOCK ON THE
1390
00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:20,134
OTHER SIDE.
1391
00:37:20,168 --> 00:37:21,135
THE WHOLE PROCESS IS
1392
00:37:21,169 --> 00:37:22,516
PRETTY COMPLEX.
1393
00:37:22,550 --> 00:37:24,103
AND THIS IS JUST ONE SMALL
1394
00:37:24,138 --> 00:37:26,382
OFFICE IN ONE SMALL COUNTY.
1395
00:37:26,416 --> 00:37:28,591
MULTIPLY IT BY 13,000 SIMILAR
1396
00:37:28,625 --> 00:37:31,110
OPERATIONS AND YOU HAVE AN IDEA
1397
00:37:31,145 --> 00:37:32,595
OF THE MASSIVE EFFORT IT TAKES
1398
00:37:32,629 --> 00:37:34,424
TO CAST AND COUNT BALLOTS
1399
00:37:34,459 --> 00:37:37,289
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
1400
00:37:37,324 --> 00:37:38,566
LATER THAT DAY, I HEADED OVER
1401
00:37:38,601 --> 00:37:40,396
TO THE COURTHOUSE WHERE GINGER
1402
00:37:40,430 --> 00:37:42,156
WAS GIVING A TRAINING CLASS FOR
1403
00:37:42,190 --> 00:37:43,261
POLL WORKERS.
1404
00:37:43,295 --> 00:37:44,641
WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW
1405
00:37:44,676 --> 00:37:48,645
TO HANDLE AN IRATE VOTER WHO
1406
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,647
WANTS TO VOTE WHO DOESN'T HAVE
1407
00:37:50,682 --> 00:37:51,614
THE RIGHT CREDENTIALS.
1408
00:37:51,648 --> 00:37:52,580
CAN I HAVE A VOLUNTEER?
1409
00:37:52,615 --> 00:37:55,307
OH GEE, MO, YOU WOULD BE GREAT.
1410
00:37:55,342 --> 00:37:57,171
[LAUGHTER]
1411
00:37:57,205 --> 00:37:58,172
NOW, MO, YOU'RE GONNA COME DOWN
1412
00:37:58,206 --> 00:37:59,035
HERE AND YOU'RE GONNA TRY
1413
00:37:59,069 --> 00:38:00,554
AND VOTE.
1414
00:38:00,588 --> 00:38:02,245
HI, I'M HERE TO VOTE.
1415
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,350
ALL RIGHT, I NEED TO SEE YOUR
1416
00:38:03,384 --> 00:38:03,971
DRIVER'S LICENSE.
1417
00:38:04,005 --> 00:38:06,387
OH, UH... OH, NO, I DON'T
1418
00:38:06,422 --> 00:38:08,320
HAVE IT, NO.
1419
00:38:08,355 --> 00:38:09,321
WE NEED A DRIVER'S LICENSE.
1420
00:38:09,356 --> 00:38:10,046
OH, I'VE VOTED HERE
1421
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,047
12 TIMES BEFORE.
1422
00:38:11,081 --> 00:38:11,599
WE STILL NEED THAT
1423
00:38:11,634 --> 00:38:12,220
DRIVER'S LICENSE.
1424
00:38:12,255 --> 00:38:14,361
I VOTED, UM, IN 1948 HERE
1425
00:38:14,395 --> 00:38:15,362
FOR PRESIDENT.
1426
00:38:15,396 --> 00:38:16,121
I STILL NEED THAT
1427
00:38:16,155 --> 00:38:16,811
DRIVER'S LICENSE.
1428
00:38:16,846 --> 00:38:18,710
UH, WELL, ALL RIGHT, LET ME,
1429
00:38:18,744 --> 00:38:20,574
UH, OH, WELL, HERE'S A
1430
00:38:20,608 --> 00:38:21,437
CREDIT CARD.
1431
00:38:21,471 --> 00:38:22,334
NO.
1432
00:38:22,369 --> 00:38:23,370
IT'S NOT WORKING.
1433
00:38:23,404 --> 00:38:24,405
O.K., WELL, THEN I'LL SHOW
1434
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,304
YOU MY, UH, SOCIAL SECURITY
1435
00:38:26,338 --> 00:38:27,132
CARD.
1436
00:38:27,166 --> 00:38:28,133
NO, IT NEEDS TO HAVE A
1437
00:38:28,167 --> 00:38:29,065
PICTURE ON IT.
1438
00:38:29,099 --> 00:38:30,031
WELL, I MEAN, YOU KNOW THAT
1439
00:38:30,066 --> 00:38:30,653
I'M ME.
1440
00:38:30,687 --> 00:38:31,550
I MEAN, COME ON, DON'T YOU
1441
00:38:31,585 --> 00:38:32,310
REMEMBER?
1442
00:38:32,344 --> 00:38:33,276
SADIE HAWKINS DANCE,
1443
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:34,381
YOU ASKED ME!
1444
00:38:34,415 --> 00:38:36,452
NO, I DON'T.
1445
00:38:36,486 --> 00:38:38,212
WELL, THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS.
1446
00:38:38,246 --> 00:38:39,455
I MEAN, WHAT ABOUT MY, I HAVE A
1447
00:38:39,489 --> 00:38:40,421
RIGHT TO VOTE.
1448
00:38:40,456 --> 00:38:41,146
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT
1449
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:42,354
DRIVER'S LICENSE, I CAN GIVE YOU
1450
00:38:42,389 --> 00:38:43,597
A FORM AND YOU CAN GO TO THE
1451
00:38:43,631 --> 00:38:45,357
LICENSE BRANCH AND YOU CAN GET
1452
00:38:45,392 --> 00:38:47,394
A B.M.V. FREE I.D.
1453
00:38:47,428 --> 00:38:49,223
WELL, I MEAN, SO I HAVE TO
1454
00:38:49,257 --> 00:38:50,604
DRIVE DOWN THERE? YEAH.
1455
00:38:50,638 --> 00:38:52,157
BUT I'VE BEEN DRINKING!
1456
00:38:52,191 --> 00:38:54,055
[LAUGHTER]
1457
00:38:54,090 --> 00:38:55,367
SORRY.
1458
00:38:55,402 --> 00:38:57,300
WHAT ABOUT THIS? NO.
1459
00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:58,405
[LAUGHTER]
1460
00:38:58,439 --> 00:38:59,613
SORRY, BUT NICE PICTURE.
1461
00:38:59,647 --> 00:39:00,786
WOULD YOU LET ME VOTE IF I
1462
00:39:00,821 --> 00:39:02,650
SHOWED YOU THIS?
1463
00:39:02,685 --> 00:39:04,549
NO.
1464
00:39:04,583 --> 00:39:05,273
SEE?
1465
00:39:05,308 --> 00:39:06,551
IN THERE IT SAYS MO IS MY FIRST
1466
00:39:06,585 --> 00:39:07,379
NAME AND ROCCA.
1467
00:39:07,414 --> 00:39:08,311
Woman: O.K.
1468
00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:11,487
SO NOW CAN I VOTE?
1469
00:39:11,521 --> 00:39:12,591
I DON'T THINK SO.
1470
00:39:12,626 --> 00:39:14,317
I'D HAVE TO TALK TO THE
1471
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:15,525
INSPECTOR AND LET HER MAKE
1472
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:16,595
THAT DECISION.
1473
00:39:16,630 --> 00:39:17,527
SO THE INSPECTOR WOULD
1474
00:39:17,562 --> 00:39:19,529
BE HERE. RIGHT HERE.
1475
00:39:19,564 --> 00:39:20,392
OH, YOU'RE THE INSPECTOR,
1476
00:39:20,427 --> 00:39:21,462
WHAT DO YOU SAY?
1477
00:39:21,497 --> 00:39:23,257
NO. WHY?
1478
00:39:23,291 --> 00:39:24,120
I'M SORRY.
1479
00:39:24,154 --> 00:39:25,259
YOU DON'T LIKE THE PICTURE?
1480
00:39:25,293 --> 00:39:26,502
NO, IT'S A GREAT PICTURE,
1481
00:39:26,536 --> 00:39:28,573
BUT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW OUR RULES.
1482
00:39:28,607 --> 00:39:29,297
WELL, AT LEAST THEY SEEMED
1483
00:39:29,332 --> 00:39:31,127
APPRECIATIVE OF MY AMTRAK
1484
00:39:31,161 --> 00:39:33,163
MAGAZINE PHOTO SPREAD.
1485
00:39:33,198 --> 00:39:34,302
BUT LET'S SAY I DID HAVE MY
1486
00:39:34,337 --> 00:39:35,545
PICTURE I.D. WITH ME,
1487
00:39:35,580 --> 00:39:37,133
ALL SYSTEMS GO?
1488
00:39:37,167 --> 00:39:38,134
Woman: SIR, YOU ARE NOT ON
1489
00:39:38,168 --> 00:39:38,859
OUR RECORDS.
1490
00:39:38,893 --> 00:39:40,343
I'M SORRY, BUT THE ONLY WAY THAT
1491
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,690
YOU CAN VOTE IS IF YOU VOTE A
1492
00:39:42,725 --> 00:39:44,589
PROVISIONAL BALLOT AND I MUST
1493
00:39:44,623 --> 00:39:46,314
TELL YOU THAT IF YOU DO, IT MAY
1494
00:39:46,349 --> 00:39:47,557
NOT BE COUNTED.
1495
00:39:47,592 --> 00:39:48,696
AY YI YI.
1496
00:39:48,731 --> 00:39:50,422
BECAUSE MY ELIGIBILITY HAD BEEN
1497
00:39:50,457 --> 00:39:51,630
QUESTIONED, I WAS ONLY ABLE TO
1498
00:39:51,665 --> 00:39:53,632
VOTE WITH A PROVISIONAL BALLOT,
1499
00:39:53,667 --> 00:39:55,151
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH:
1500
00:39:55,185 --> 00:39:56,394
NO PROVISIONAL BALLOTS ARE
1501
00:39:56,428 --> 00:39:58,292
RECORDED ON ELECTION DAY;
1502
00:39:58,326 --> 00:40:00,536
MANY ARE NEVER RECORDED AT ALL.
1503
00:40:00,570 --> 00:40:01,433
♪ WHEN I DREAM ABOUT
1504
00:40:01,468 --> 00:40:04,160
THE MOONLIGHT ON THE WABASH ♪
1505
00:40:04,194 --> 00:40:05,333
♪ THEN I LONG FOR
1506
00:40:05,368 --> 00:40:07,439
MY INDIANA HOME. ♪
1507
00:40:07,474 --> 00:40:09,096
SIR, THIS IS A PIECE OF PAPER
1508
00:40:09,130 --> 00:40:10,442
FOR DOCUMENTATION TO GET TO THE
1509
00:40:10,477 --> 00:40:14,377
COURTHOUSE BY 6 P.M. TODAY.
1510
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:15,413
AM I BEING ARRESTED?
1511
00:40:15,447 --> 00:40:16,621
NO, THIS IS AN ORDER FOR YOUR
1512
00:40:16,655 --> 00:40:17,691
BALLOT TO BE COUNTED, IF THEY
1513
00:40:17,725 --> 00:40:19,037
DECIDE TO COUNT IT, AND
1514
00:40:19,071 --> 00:40:20,418
HERE'S YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE,
1515
00:40:20,452 --> 00:40:22,281
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
1516
00:40:22,316 --> 00:40:23,075
Ginger: EXCUSE ME, SIR?
1517
00:40:23,110 --> 00:40:23,731
YES? HAVE YOU BEEN
1518
00:40:23,766 --> 00:40:25,457
DRINKING? I, UH--
1519
00:40:25,492 --> 00:40:26,803
I'M SORRY BUT YOU CANNOT
1520
00:40:26,838 --> 00:40:27,632
ENTER OUR POLLS DRINKING.
1521
00:40:27,666 --> 00:40:29,185
YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
1522
00:40:29,219 --> 00:40:30,428
IS THAT RIGHT? IS THAT TRUE?
1523
00:40:30,462 --> 00:40:31,359
THAT THAT WOULD HAPPEN?
1524
00:40:31,394 --> 00:40:32,326
YES, IT WOULD.
1525
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,296
[APPLAUSE]
1526
00:40:37,331 --> 00:40:39,022
DESPITE THE FACT THAT GINGER
1527
00:40:39,057 --> 00:40:40,196
IS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL WITH
1528
00:40:40,230 --> 00:40:42,025
PARTY AFFILIATION, IT'S HARD TO
1529
00:40:42,060 --> 00:40:43,648
IMAGINE PARTISAN POLITICS
1530
00:40:43,682 --> 00:40:44,787
INFLUENCING AN ELECTION
1531
00:40:44,821 --> 00:40:46,444
IN HER COUNTY.
1532
00:40:46,478 --> 00:40:48,169
BUT AS A STATE, INDIANA CAN LAY
1533
00:40:48,204 --> 00:40:50,102
CLAIM TO ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST
1534
00:40:50,137 --> 00:40:51,552
BITTERLY CONTESTED
1535
00:40:51,587 --> 00:40:53,174
CONGRESSIONAL RACES,
1536
00:40:53,209 --> 00:40:54,590
IN A DISTRICT KNOWN
1537
00:40:54,624 --> 00:40:56,557
AS "THE BLOODY 8th."
1538
00:40:56,592 --> 00:40:57,558
YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE
1539
00:40:57,593 --> 00:40:58,525
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
1540
00:40:58,559 --> 00:40:59,767
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
1541
00:40:59,802 --> 00:41:01,666
A 1984 RACE IN THE BLOODY 8th
1542
00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,668
WAS SO CLOSE, CONGRESS STEPPED
1543
00:41:03,702 --> 00:41:05,635
IN TO DECIDE IT-- A CONGRESS
1544
00:41:05,670 --> 00:41:08,258
CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS.
1545
00:41:08,293 --> 00:41:09,328
I WON-- I CAN LOOK
1546
00:41:09,363 --> 00:41:10,329
ANYBODY IN THE EYE AND
1547
00:41:10,364 --> 00:41:11,641
SHOW THEM THAT I WON.
1548
00:41:11,676 --> 00:41:13,056
Newscaster: ON ELECTION NIGHT
1549
00:41:13,091 --> 00:41:14,299
DEMOCRAT McCLOSKEY LED
1550
00:41:14,333 --> 00:41:15,783
BY 72 VOTES.
1551
00:41:15,818 --> 00:41:17,509
AFTER A STATE RECOUNT,
1552
00:41:17,544 --> 00:41:19,131
REPUBLICAN RICK McINTYRE WAS
1553
00:41:19,166 --> 00:41:20,581
CERTIFIED THE WINNER BY
1554
00:41:20,616 --> 00:41:22,514
418 VOTES.
1555
00:41:22,549 --> 00:41:23,791
BUT BECAUSE OF DISPUTES OVER
1556
00:41:23,826 --> 00:41:26,035
BALLOTS, HOUSE DEMOCRATS ORDERED
1557
00:41:26,069 --> 00:41:28,037
A FEDERAL RECOUNT SUPERVISED
1558
00:41:28,071 --> 00:41:29,452
BY DEMOCRATS.
1559
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,040
IT TURNED THE REPUBLICAN LEAD
1560
00:41:31,074 --> 00:41:33,698
INTO A FOUR-VOTE DEMOCRATIC WIN.
1561
00:41:33,732 --> 00:41:35,147
HOUSE REPUBLICANS ACCUSED THE
1562
00:41:35,182 --> 00:41:36,494
DEMOCRATS OF STEALING THE
1563
00:41:36,528 --> 00:41:38,461
ELECTION AND WORSE.
1564
00:41:38,496 --> 00:41:41,775
THEN, ALMOST ALL 182 REPUBLICANS
1565
00:41:41,809 --> 00:41:43,535
MARCHED OFF THE HOUSE FLOOR
1566
00:41:43,570 --> 00:41:44,778
AND OUTSIDE.
1567
00:41:44,812 --> 00:41:47,608
THE WALKOUT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
1568
00:41:47,643 --> 00:41:48,747
WE ARE ALL SO FRUSTRATED BY
1569
00:41:48,782 --> 00:41:49,748
DEALING WITH AN ESSENTIALLY
1570
00:41:49,783 --> 00:41:52,337
CORRUPT AND TYRANNICAL MAJORITY,
1571
00:41:52,371 --> 00:41:53,441
A GROUP THAT HAS BROKEN INDIANA
1572
00:41:53,476 --> 00:41:54,650
LAW, THAT HAS, IN OUR JUDGMENT,
1573
00:41:54,684 --> 00:41:56,548
VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION AND
1574
00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:57,756
THAT NOW USES ITS NUMBERS TO
1575
00:41:57,791 --> 00:41:59,344
STEAL A SEAT IN THE HOUSE,
1576
00:41:59,378 --> 00:42:00,414
THAT ALMOST ANYTHING
1577
00:42:00,448 --> 00:42:01,242
IS POSSIBLE.
1578
00:42:01,277 --> 00:42:03,037
THEN, OF COURSE, ANYTHING AND
1579
00:42:03,072 --> 00:42:05,074
EVERYTHING POSSIBLE DID HAPPEN
1580
00:42:05,108 --> 00:42:06,696
IN 2000.
1581
00:42:06,731 --> 00:42:07,697
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS
1582
00:42:07,732 --> 00:42:09,250
IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA,
1583
00:42:09,285 --> 00:42:12,046
I HEREBY DECLARE GOVERNOR
1584
00:42:12,081 --> 00:42:14,462
GEORGE W. BUSH THE WINNER OF
1585
00:42:14,497 --> 00:42:16,672
FLORIDA'S 25 ELECTORAL VOTES
1586
00:42:16,706 --> 00:42:18,121
FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE
1587
00:42:18,156 --> 00:42:19,571
UNITED STATES.
1588
00:42:19,606 --> 00:42:21,435
YOU KNOW, WHAT TOOK PLACE IN
1589
00:42:21,469 --> 00:42:23,644
2000 IN FLORIDA WAS A PERFECT
1590
00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:25,577
STORM OF EVERYTHING
1591
00:42:25,612 --> 00:42:26,751
DYSFUNCTIONAL ABOUT OUR
1592
00:42:26,785 --> 00:42:28,235
ELECTORAL SYSTEM.
1593
00:42:28,269 --> 00:42:29,098
Crowd: GET OUT OF
1594
00:42:29,132 --> 00:42:29,754
CHENEY'S HOUSE!
1595
00:42:29,788 --> 00:42:31,100
GET OUT OF CHENEY'S HOUSE!
1596
00:42:31,134 --> 00:42:32,308
Raskin: FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVED
1597
00:42:32,342 --> 00:42:33,758
THROUGH IT, THIS WAS LIKE,
1598
00:42:33,792 --> 00:42:35,276
YOU KNOW, BLEEDING KANSAS
1599
00:42:35,311 --> 00:42:36,554
OR THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG OR
1600
00:42:36,588 --> 00:42:37,589
SOMETHING-- I MEAN, THIS WAS A
1601
00:42:37,624 --> 00:42:40,178
TRAUMATIC MOMENT IN THE HISTORY
1602
00:42:40,212 --> 00:42:41,731
OF MODERN POLITICAL DEMOCRACY.
1603
00:42:41,766 --> 00:42:43,595
IT ALL STARTED REALLY WITH A
1604
00:42:43,630 --> 00:42:45,459
SERIES OF VERY RESTRICTIVE
1605
00:42:45,493 --> 00:42:47,116
ELECTION RULES AND PRACTICES
1606
00:42:47,150 --> 00:42:48,704
THAT WERE ENGINEERED BY THE
1607
00:42:48,738 --> 00:42:50,188
SECRETARY OF STATE OF FLORIDA,
1608
00:42:50,222 --> 00:42:51,396
KATHERINE HARRIS,
1609
00:42:51,430 --> 00:42:54,088
WHO MOONLIGHTED AS THE, UH,
1610
00:42:54,123 --> 00:42:55,573
CHAIR OF THE BUSH FOR PRESIDENT
1611
00:42:55,607 --> 00:42:57,126
CAMPAIGN IN FLORIDA.
1612
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,507
HARRIS ORDERED A PRIVATE
1613
00:42:59,542 --> 00:43:01,061
CONTRACTOR THAT WAS PAID MORE
1614
00:43:01,095 --> 00:43:03,028
THAN A MILLION DOLLARS TO PURGE
1615
00:43:03,063 --> 00:43:04,720
THE VOTING LISTS OF
1616
00:43:04,754 --> 00:43:05,790
CONVICTED FELONS.
1617
00:43:05,824 --> 00:43:07,723
AND SO, THEY GOT BACK A MEMO,
1618
00:43:07,757 --> 00:43:09,587
WHICH SURFACED AFTER THE WHOLE
1619
00:43:09,621 --> 00:43:11,554
ELECTION WAS OVER, UH, SAYING TO
1620
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:12,728
SECRETARY OF STATE HARRIS,
1621
00:43:12,762 --> 00:43:14,074
"WE'RE NOT POSITIVE ABOUT SOME
1622
00:43:14,108 --> 00:43:15,593
OF THESE NAMES," WHICH WERE IN
1623
00:43:15,627 --> 00:43:17,525
OVERWHELMINGLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN
1624
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,493
COMMUNITIES, UH, "WHAT SHOULD
1625
00:43:19,527 --> 00:43:20,218
WE DO?"
1626
00:43:20,252 --> 00:43:22,185
AND SHE SAID, "CAST A WIDE NET."
1627
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:24,049
IT WAS DETERMINED LATER THAT
1628
00:43:24,084 --> 00:43:27,052
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE FALSELY
1629
00:43:27,087 --> 00:43:28,433
DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE THEIR
1630
00:43:28,467 --> 00:43:29,607
NAMES RESEMBLED THOSE OF
1631
00:43:29,641 --> 00:43:30,746
CONVICTED FELONS.
1632
00:43:30,780 --> 00:43:31,643
Crowd: STOP THE COUNT!
1633
00:43:31,678 --> 00:43:32,575
STOP THE FRAUD!
1634
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:33,576
STOP THE COUNT!
1635
00:43:33,611 --> 00:43:34,508
STOP THE FRAUD!
1636
00:43:34,542 --> 00:43:35,440
STOP THE COUNT!
1637
00:43:35,474 --> 00:43:36,614
STOP THE FRAUD!
1638
00:43:36,648 --> 00:43:37,476
Raskin: THEN THERE WERE A
1639
00:43:37,511 --> 00:43:39,030
WHOLE SERIES OF SCANDALS AND
1640
00:43:39,064 --> 00:43:41,032
MISHAPS RELATING TO THE COUNTING
1641
00:43:41,066 --> 00:43:42,067
OF THE BALLOTS.
1642
00:43:42,102 --> 00:43:42,758
THERE WAS A BLIZZARD OF
1643
00:43:42,792 --> 00:43:45,036
LAWSUITS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE,
1644
00:43:45,070 --> 00:43:46,037
AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
1645
00:43:46,071 --> 00:43:47,452
AMERICAN HISTORY, THE SUPREME
1646
00:43:47,486 --> 00:43:49,454
COURT STEPPED INTO A STATE,
1647
00:43:49,488 --> 00:43:52,491
OVERRODE THE STATE SUPREME
1648
00:43:52,526 --> 00:43:53,596
COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF ITS
1649
00:43:53,631 --> 00:43:55,667
OWN LAWS TO SAY THAT IT MIGHT
1650
00:43:55,702 --> 00:43:57,117
VIOLATE EQUAL PROTECTION TO
1651
00:43:57,151 --> 00:43:58,601
COUNT PEOPLE'S BALLOTS.
1652
00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:00,638
AND SO, RATHER THAN HAVING,
1653
00:44:00,672 --> 00:44:02,122
YOU KNOW, THE PRESIDENT NAME
1654
00:44:02,156 --> 00:44:03,433
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, HERE
1655
00:44:03,468 --> 00:44:04,124
WE HAD THE SUPREME COURT
1656
00:44:04,158 --> 00:44:05,366
JUSTICES EFFECTIVELY NAME THE
1657
00:44:05,401 --> 00:44:07,610
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
1658
00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:08,611
Woman: PEOPLE SAY THAT THAT
1659
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:10,061
DECISION WAS NOT BASED ON
1660
00:44:10,095 --> 00:44:11,407
JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY,
1661
00:44:11,441 --> 00:44:13,029
BUT ON POLITICS.
1662
00:44:13,064 --> 00:44:14,686
I SAY, NONSENSE.
1663
00:44:14,721 --> 00:44:16,308
WAS IT POLITICAL?
1664
00:44:16,343 --> 00:44:17,309
GEE, I REALLY DON'T WANNA GET
1665
00:44:17,344 --> 00:44:18,345
INTO-- I MEAN THIS IS-- GET
1666
00:44:18,379 --> 00:44:20,243
OVER IT! IT'S SO OLD BY NOW.
1667
00:44:20,278 --> 00:44:21,382
BUT IT WAS, IT ENDED UP BEING
1668
00:44:21,417 --> 00:44:23,246
A POLITICAL DECISION.
1669
00:44:23,281 --> 00:44:24,385
IT WAS AL GORE WHO MADE IT
1670
00:44:24,420 --> 00:44:26,353
A JUDICIAL QUESTION.
1671
00:44:26,387 --> 00:44:28,079
IT WAS HE WHO BROUGHT IT INTO
1672
00:44:28,113 --> 00:44:29,528
THE FLORIDA COURTS; WE DIDN'T
1673
00:44:29,563 --> 00:44:31,392
GO LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
1674
00:44:31,427 --> 00:44:40,539
[♪...]
1675
00:44:40,574 --> 00:44:41,540
Robbie Fulks: ♪ I'M GOING
1676
00:44:41,575 --> 00:44:44,371
BACK TO INDIANA ♪
1677
00:44:44,405 --> 00:44:45,096
♪ BACK TO WHERE
1678
00:44:45,130 --> 00:44:48,340
I STARTED FROM ♪
1679
00:44:48,375 --> 00:44:51,999
♪ I'M GOING BACK TO INDIANA
1680
00:44:52,034 --> 00:44:56,555
♪ INDIANA, HERE I COME...
1681
00:44:56,590 --> 00:45:01,353
[YODELING]
1682
00:45:01,388 --> 00:45:02,389
IT'S NINE DAYS BEFORE THE
1683
00:45:02,423 --> 00:45:03,735
ELECTION AND THE DEMOCRATS
1684
00:45:03,770 --> 00:45:06,048
ARE UNDER FIRE.
1685
00:45:06,082 --> 00:45:07,981
JUST SIT RIGHT HERE.
1686
00:45:08,015 --> 00:45:09,189
THE REPUBLICAN 9th DISTRICT
1687
00:45:09,223 --> 00:45:10,984
CHAIRMAN HAS ASKED THE JENNINGS
1688
00:45:11,018 --> 00:45:12,744
COUNTY CLERK AND ELECTION BOARD
1689
00:45:12,779 --> 00:45:14,746
FOR COPIES OF ALL ABSENTEE
1690
00:45:14,781 --> 00:45:16,265
BALLOT APPLICATIONS FOR THE
1691
00:45:16,299 --> 00:45:17,956
UPCOMING VOTE.
1692
00:45:17,991 --> 00:45:19,199
AND THEY WANT THEM BEFORE
1693
00:45:19,233 --> 00:45:21,063
ELECTION DAY.
1694
00:45:21,097 --> 00:45:22,133
"ACCORDING TO THE STATUTE,
1695
00:45:22,167 --> 00:45:23,721
YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO RESPOND
1696
00:45:23,755 --> 00:45:25,067
TO THIS REQUEST.
1697
00:45:25,101 --> 00:45:26,068
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS
1698
00:45:26,102 --> 00:45:28,070
REQUEST AND THE PENDING DATE FOR
1699
00:45:28,104 --> 00:45:29,140
THE ELECTION, I WOULD ASK THAT
1700
00:45:29,174 --> 00:45:30,279
YOU ASSIST ME IN HANDLING THIS
1701
00:45:30,313 --> 00:45:31,521
REQUEST IN AN
1702
00:45:31,556 --> 00:45:32,557
EXPEDITIOUS MANNER.
1703
00:45:32,591 --> 00:45:33,558
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE ON
1704
00:45:33,592 --> 00:45:34,179
THIS MATTER."
1705
00:45:34,214 --> 00:45:36,147
LARRY SHICKLES, DISTRICT--
1706
00:45:36,181 --> 00:45:37,217
REPUBLICAN 9th DISTRICT
1707
00:45:37,251 --> 00:45:38,183
CHAIRMAN.
1708
00:45:38,218 --> 00:45:38,977
THE GROUP BELIEVES THE
1709
00:45:39,012 --> 00:45:40,772
REQUEST IS BEING MADE SO THAT
1710
00:45:40,807 --> 00:45:42,187
DEMOCRATIC VOTES CAN BE
1711
00:45:42,222 --> 00:45:44,017
ELIMINATED BASED ON SIGNATURE
1712
00:45:44,051 --> 00:45:46,157
IRREGULARITIES.
1713
00:45:46,191 --> 00:45:47,123
IT'S THE APPLICANT'S
1714
00:45:47,158 --> 00:45:49,056
SIGNATURE.
1715
00:45:49,091 --> 00:45:50,195
THEY'RE GONNA GO TO THAT
1716
00:45:50,230 --> 00:45:52,957
89-YEAR-OLD VOTER, WHATEVER,
1717
00:45:52,991 --> 00:45:54,337
AND THEY'RE GONNA ASK FOR A
1718
00:45:54,372 --> 00:45:56,132
SAMPLE SIGNATURE.
1719
00:45:56,167 --> 00:45:57,271
I DON'T SIGN MY NAME THE SAME
1720
00:45:57,306 --> 00:45:58,514
WAY I DID WHEN I REGISTERED
1721
00:45:58,548 --> 00:45:59,204
TO VOTE.
1722
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:00,999
I TOTALLY SIGN IT DIFFERENTLY.
1723
00:46:01,034 --> 00:46:03,174
AND THEY WANT TO QUESTION IT,
1724
00:46:03,208 --> 00:46:04,313
THEY WANT-- THEY WANT TO
1725
00:46:04,347 --> 00:46:05,970
COMPARE, CHALLENGE IT.
1726
00:46:06,004 --> 00:46:07,109
THE SIGNATURES.
1727
00:46:07,143 --> 00:46:08,006
Woman: THEIR GOAL, IN MY
1728
00:46:08,041 --> 00:46:09,525
OPINION, IS TO GET THEM ALL IN
1729
00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:11,078
THE PROVISIONAL BALLOT.
1730
00:46:11,113 --> 00:46:11,734
Marshall: THAT'S RIGHT.
1731
00:46:11,769 --> 00:46:13,494
WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.
1732
00:46:13,529 --> 00:46:14,772
WHAT THEY CAN'T STAND IS THAT
1733
00:46:14,806 --> 00:46:18,154
WE, WE HAVE OUTWORKED 'EM.
1734
00:46:18,189 --> 00:46:20,570
WE HAVE THREE TO FOUR TO ONE,
1735
00:46:20,605 --> 00:46:22,469
ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR EVERY
1736
00:46:22,503 --> 00:46:24,126
REPUBLICAN ABSENTEE BALLOT.
1737
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:25,403
WE HAVE THREE TO FOUR TO ONE.
1738
00:46:25,437 --> 00:46:26,404
THEY DON'T WANT THESE VOTES
1739
00:46:26,438 --> 00:46:28,544
COUNTED, THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE.
1740
00:46:28,578 --> 00:46:30,304
AND WE WORK REALLY HARD TO GET
1741
00:46:30,339 --> 00:46:32,134
PEOPLE TO VOTE AND THEY'RE
1742
00:46:32,168 --> 00:46:33,169
WORKING HARD TO MAKE SURE THOSE
1743
00:46:33,204 --> 00:46:34,412
VOTES DON'T COUNT.
1744
00:46:34,446 --> 00:46:35,344
Marshall: IT'S GONNA GET
1745
00:46:35,378 --> 00:46:39,382
NASTY-- GETTING REAL NASTY.
1746
00:46:39,417 --> 00:46:41,315
...WHAT'S CRITICAL ABOUT THIS,
1747
00:46:41,350 --> 00:46:42,420
OF THEM WANTING COPIES OF THE
1748
00:46:42,454 --> 00:46:46,010
APPLICATIONS IS IF THEY WANT
1749
00:46:46,044 --> 00:46:47,390
COPIES, THEY GOT TO PRINT THOSE
1750
00:46:47,425 --> 00:46:48,357
COPIES, RUN THEM THROUGH
1751
00:46:48,391 --> 00:46:50,738
MACHINES, HANDLE THEM.
1752
00:46:50,773 --> 00:46:53,707
IF THEY MESS ANYTHING UP...
1753
00:46:53,741 --> 00:46:56,261
WITH THE APPLICATION, THEN IT
1754
00:46:56,296 --> 00:46:59,644
WILL NOT, IT WILL INVALIDATE
1755
00:46:59,678 --> 00:47:01,301
THE BALLOT.
1756
00:47:01,335 --> 00:47:03,372
EVERY VOTE IS GONNA COUNT HERE.
1757
00:47:03,406 --> 00:47:04,338
THIS ISN'T FLORIDA.
1758
00:47:04,373 --> 00:47:06,133
THIS AIN'T THE SUNSHINE STATE.
1759
00:47:06,168 --> 00:47:07,238
THIS IS INDIANA AND HOOSIER
1760
00:47:07,272 --> 00:47:08,756
VALUES ARE GOING TO WORK RIGHT
1761
00:47:08,791 --> 00:47:11,311
HERE BECAUSE THAT DOG DOES HUNT.
1762
00:47:11,345 --> 00:47:13,658
I CAN TELL YOU THAT RIGHT NOW.
1763
00:47:13,692 --> 00:47:14,659
Robbie Fulks: ♪ I'M GOING
1764
00:47:14,693 --> 00:47:17,282
BACK TO INDIANA ♪
1765
00:47:17,317 --> 00:47:21,355
♪ INDIANA, HERE I COME
1766
00:47:21,390 --> 00:47:24,772
♪ I'M GOING BACK TO INDIANA
1767
00:47:24,807 --> 00:47:25,497
'CAUSE THAT IS WHERE
1768
00:47:25,532 --> 00:47:28,362
MY BABY'S FROM... ♪
1769
00:47:28,397 --> 00:47:31,469
IT'S OCTOBER 31st, HALLOWEEN.
1770
00:47:31,503 --> 00:47:32,746
THE COURTHOUSE GROUNDS WERE...
1771
00:47:32,780 --> 00:47:34,644
"DECORATED" BY PRANKSTERS
1772
00:47:34,679 --> 00:47:36,405
THE NIGHT BEFORE.
1773
00:47:36,439 --> 00:47:37,993
TODAY A JUDGE WILL HEAR FROM
1774
00:47:38,027 --> 00:47:39,201
BOTH SIDES OF THE BALLOT
1775
00:47:39,235 --> 00:47:41,410
DISPUTE AND AT LEAST ONE TEAM
1776
00:47:41,444 --> 00:47:43,343
IS FEELING PRETTY CONFIDENT.
1777
00:47:43,377 --> 00:47:44,344
Man: WELL, WE CERTAINLY
1778
00:47:44,378 --> 00:47:45,517
EXPECT IT'S GOING TO GO OUR WAY.
1779
00:47:45,552 --> 00:47:47,174
IT'S A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD
1780
00:47:47,209 --> 00:47:49,280
STATUTORY ISSUE AND I THINK THAT
1781
00:47:49,314 --> 00:47:51,213
THE INTENT OF THE INDIANA
1782
00:47:51,247 --> 00:47:53,318
LEGISLATURE IN DRAFTING THIS
1783
00:47:53,353 --> 00:47:55,113
PUBLIC RECORDS LAW WAS TO ALLOW
1784
00:47:55,148 --> 00:47:56,666
PEOPLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO SEE
1785
00:47:56,701 --> 00:47:57,702
WHAT THEIR GOVERNMENT'S DOING,
1786
00:47:57,736 --> 00:47:59,221
AND IF THEY CAN'T DO THAT BEFORE
1787
00:47:59,255 --> 00:48:00,601
A FREE ELECTION, THEN WHEN CAN
1788
00:48:00,636 --> 00:48:02,189
THEY HAVE IT?
1789
00:48:02,224 --> 00:48:03,708
SO WE FEEL PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT.
1790
00:48:03,742 --> 00:48:05,779
THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCAM FROM
1791
00:48:05,813 --> 00:48:07,436
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, COMING IN
1792
00:48:07,470 --> 00:48:08,644
HERE FROM THE 9th DISTRICT
1793
00:48:08,678 --> 00:48:09,541
CHAIRMAN, COMING IN
1794
00:48:09,576 --> 00:48:10,611
JENNINGS COUNTY.
1795
00:48:10,646 --> 00:48:11,681
THE LOCAL REPUBLICANS, I CAN
1796
00:48:11,716 --> 00:48:12,648
TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, IN THIS
1797
00:48:12,682 --> 00:48:14,961
COUNTY, I CAN TELL YOU,
1798
00:48:14,995 --> 00:48:16,376
THEY DO NOT AGREE.
1799
00:48:16,410 --> 00:48:19,275
THEY DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS,
1800
00:48:19,310 --> 00:48:20,242
THIS GOING ON.
1801
00:48:20,276 --> 00:48:21,381
IT'S JUST A SIMPLE LITTLE THING:
1802
00:48:21,415 --> 00:48:22,382
THEY DON'T WANT TO PUT THEM
1803
00:48:22,416 --> 00:48:23,210
BALLOTS THROUGH THAT MACHINE
1804
00:48:23,245 --> 00:48:24,694
ON ELECTION DAY.
1805
00:48:24,729 --> 00:48:26,731
THE DEMOCRAT BALLOTS.
1806
00:48:26,765 --> 00:48:31,149
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
1807
00:48:31,184 --> 00:48:32,737
MR. SHICKLES.
1808
00:48:32,771 --> 00:48:34,773
MR. MARSHALL OBVIOUSLY WAS A
1809
00:48:34,808 --> 00:48:36,292
LITTLE EMOTIONAL IN HIS
1810
00:48:36,327 --> 00:48:39,054
DESCRIPTION THAT THE INTEGRITY
1811
00:48:39,088 --> 00:48:40,676
OF THE ELECTION BOARD AND THE
1812
00:48:40,710 --> 00:48:41,746
CLERK WAS BEING QUESTIONED,
1813
00:48:41,780 --> 00:48:43,679
AND THAT IS NOT THE CASE AT ALL.
1814
00:48:43,713 --> 00:48:45,198
WHAT WE'RE LITERALLY QUESTIONING
1815
00:48:45,232 --> 00:48:46,509
TODAY WAS THE LAW SAYS WE HAVE
1816
00:48:46,544 --> 00:48:48,270
A RIGHT TO THOSE RECORDS.
1817
00:48:48,304 --> 00:48:49,167
WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
1818
00:48:49,202 --> 00:48:51,100
THE RECORDS.
1819
00:48:51,135 --> 00:48:52,274
WITH ONLY FOUR DAYS TO GO
1820
00:48:52,308 --> 00:48:53,689
BEFORE THE ELECTION, THE JUDGE
1821
00:48:53,723 --> 00:48:55,001
WILL HAVE TO COME UP WITH A
1822
00:48:55,035 --> 00:48:57,348
DECISION PRETTY QUICKLY.
1823
00:48:57,382 --> 00:48:58,349
Man: PAID FOR BY THE LOCAL
1824
00:48:58,383 --> 00:48:59,350
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
1825
00:48:59,384 --> 00:49:00,730
BECAUSE THE DAIRY COWS JUST
1826
00:49:00,765 --> 00:49:02,525
WON'T MILK RIGHT.
1827
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,391
[MOOING]
1828
00:49:06,426 --> 00:49:07,634
A BREAK FROM THE TENSIONS OF
1829
00:49:07,668 --> 00:49:09,532
THE LAWSUIT COMES WHEN CLAYTON
1830
00:49:09,567 --> 00:49:11,327
AND MIKE RECORD A RADIO AD
1831
00:49:11,362 --> 00:49:12,673
SKEWERING THE GOVERNOR,
1832
00:49:12,708 --> 00:49:14,261
MITCH DANIELS.
1833
00:49:14,296 --> 00:49:15,262
HEY, DEMOCRAT.
1834
00:49:15,297 --> 00:49:15,987
HEY, INDEPENDENT.
1835
00:49:16,022 --> 00:49:17,230
DID YOU HEAR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
1836
00:49:17,264 --> 00:49:18,265
TIME COMING THIS SATURDAY?
1837
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:19,128
YES, SIR.
1838
00:49:19,163 --> 00:49:19,991
GOT TO CHANGE THE CLOCKS
1839
00:49:20,026 --> 00:49:21,199
AT 2 A.M. SUNDAY.
1840
00:49:21,234 --> 00:49:22,269
WELL, IF YOU FORGET, GONNA BE
1841
00:49:22,304 --> 00:49:23,236
LATE FOR CHURCH.
1842
00:49:23,270 --> 00:49:24,168
GONNA BE LATE FOR WORK,
1843
00:49:24,202 --> 00:49:25,548
KIDS GONNA BE LATE TO SCHOOL,
1844
00:49:25,583 --> 00:49:26,687
GONNA BE LATE FOR DINNER AT
1845
00:49:26,722 --> 00:49:28,551
GRANDMA'S HOUSE AFTER CHURCH.
1846
00:49:28,586 --> 00:49:30,415
COWS JUST WON'T MILK RIGHT.
1847
00:49:30,450 --> 00:49:31,416
I'LL TELL YOU ONE PLACE I
1848
00:49:31,451 --> 00:49:33,142
WON'T BE LATE TO: THE POLLS
1849
00:49:33,177 --> 00:49:33,694
ON TUESDAY.
1850
00:49:33,729 --> 00:49:34,557
HELL, YEAH!
1851
00:49:34,592 --> 00:49:36,456
I'M GONNA DITCH MITCH!
1852
00:49:36,490 --> 00:49:37,319
[ON RADIO]: He did that
1853
00:49:37,353 --> 00:49:38,596
Daylight Savings Time to us.
1854
00:49:38,630 --> 00:49:40,218
Made us change our clocks.
1855
00:49:40,253 --> 00:49:41,288
I'm gonna turn Ditch Mitch's
1856
00:49:41,323 --> 00:49:42,462
clock back on Tuesday
1857
00:49:42,496 --> 00:49:43,359
at the polls.
1858
00:49:43,394 --> 00:49:44,429
Clocks going back or
1859
00:49:44,464 --> 00:49:45,189
forwards?
1860
00:49:45,223 --> 00:49:46,259
Hell if I know.
1861
00:49:46,293 --> 00:49:47,432
Put us on the same time as
1862
00:49:47,467 --> 00:49:49,262
New York City, he said, to help
1863
00:49:49,296 --> 00:49:50,504
the Indiana economy.
1864
00:49:50,539 --> 00:49:51,712
New York City?
1865
00:49:51,747 --> 00:49:53,093
You with me, Independent?
1866
00:49:53,128 --> 00:49:53,645
Yessir! YESSIR!
1867
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:54,612
Paid for by the local
1868
00:49:54,646 --> 00:49:55,647
Democratic Party.
1869
00:49:55,682 --> 00:49:57,097
Because the dairy cows...
1870
00:49:57,132 --> 00:49:58,685
Both: JUST WON'T MILK RIGHT.
1871
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:07,038
[BOTH MOO, LAUGH]
1872
00:50:07,073 --> 00:50:08,453
I THINK THIS IS GOING TO
1873
00:50:08,488 --> 00:50:09,316
BE A GOOD ELECTION DAY.
1874
00:50:09,351 --> 00:50:10,041
WE'RE GONNA TURN THEM
1875
00:50:10,076 --> 00:50:11,077
DAMN DEMOCRATS OUT. OH, YEAH.
1876
00:50:11,111 --> 00:50:14,425
MM-HMM.
1877
00:50:14,459 --> 00:50:15,288
WELL, I DON'T KNOW, MOM,
1878
00:50:15,322 --> 00:50:16,323
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
1879
00:50:16,358 --> 00:50:17,083
YOU THINK McCAIN'S GONNA
1880
00:50:17,117 --> 00:50:19,119
PULL IT OFF?
1881
00:50:19,154 --> 00:50:22,329
WELL, WE HAVEN'T GIVEN UP.
1882
00:50:22,364 --> 00:50:23,158
OH, NO.
1883
00:50:23,192 --> 00:50:25,263
NEVER GIVE UP.
1884
00:50:25,298 --> 00:50:26,264
WELL, I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THAT
1885
00:50:26,299 --> 00:50:27,334
SENATOR McCAIN WILL BE IN
1886
00:50:27,369 --> 00:50:28,335
INDIANA THE DAY BEFORE
1887
00:50:28,370 --> 00:50:29,129
THE ELECTION.
1888
00:50:29,164 --> 00:50:30,441
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
1889
00:50:30,475 --> 00:50:32,132
WHAT I WORRY ABOUT ARE THE
1890
00:50:32,167 --> 00:50:33,444
ABSENTEE VOTES THAT ARE
1891
00:50:33,478 --> 00:50:34,479
NOT LEGITIMATE.
1892
00:50:34,514 --> 00:50:36,309
THAT IS WHAT I WORRY ABOUT.
1893
00:50:36,343 --> 00:50:37,310
I JUST HOPE THAT DOESN'T MAKE
1894
00:50:37,344 --> 00:50:38,414
A DIFFERENCE.
1895
00:50:38,449 --> 00:50:39,657
IT REMINDS ME OF WHEN I WAS
1896
00:50:39,691 --> 00:50:41,693
GROWING UP AND PEOPLE SELLING
1897
00:50:41,728 --> 00:50:43,281
THEIR VOTES.
1898
00:50:43,316 --> 00:50:43,971
WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
1899
00:50:44,006 --> 00:50:45,283
THAT'S BEEN A LONG TIME AGO.
1900
00:50:45,318 --> 00:50:46,491
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
1901
00:50:46,526 --> 00:50:49,287
WELL, THERE WOULD BE PEOPLE
1902
00:50:49,322 --> 00:50:52,118
THAT WOULD TARGET FAMILIES THAT
1903
00:50:52,152 --> 00:50:53,602
NEEDED MONEY AND-- THE POOR
1904
00:50:53,636 --> 00:50:56,053
FAMILIES-- AND THEY WOULD GIVE
1905
00:50:56,087 --> 00:50:58,193
'EM WHATEVER THEY WOULD ACCEPT,
1906
00:50:58,227 --> 00:51:01,713
$10, $20, AND THEY WOULD BRING
1907
00:51:01,748 --> 00:51:04,682
THEIR BALLOTS OUT AND TO THE
1908
00:51:04,716 --> 00:51:07,202
PERSON THAT BOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
1909
00:51:07,236 --> 00:51:08,410
PAID THEM FOR THEIR VOTE.
1910
00:51:08,444 --> 00:51:09,204
I'VE ALWAYS HEARD THOSE
1911
00:51:09,238 --> 00:51:10,757
STORIES, BUT I JUST WANT
1912
00:51:10,791 --> 00:51:11,482
IT FAIR.
1913
00:51:11,516 --> 00:51:12,690
I JUST WANT THE PERSON WHO GETS
1914
00:51:12,724 --> 00:51:14,209
THE MOST VOTES LEGITIMATELY
1915
00:51:14,243 --> 00:51:15,658
TO WIN-- I DO.
1916
00:51:15,693 --> 00:51:16,659
I JUST DON'T WANT ANY CHEATING
1917
00:51:16,694 --> 00:51:17,557
GOING ON, BECAUSE THAT WOULD
1918
00:51:17,591 --> 00:51:18,592
JUST BE TERRIBLE.
1919
00:51:18,627 --> 00:51:19,559
THE VOTER FRAUD IS WHAT'S
1920
00:51:19,593 --> 00:51:20,663
WORRYING ME.
1921
00:51:20,698 --> 00:51:21,285
Man: I DON'T KNOW.
1922
00:51:21,319 --> 00:51:22,527
KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.
1923
00:51:22,562 --> 00:51:23,563
OH, I'M PRAYING.
1924
00:51:23,597 --> 00:51:25,461
ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.
1925
00:51:25,496 --> 00:51:26,635
PRAYING AND FINGERS CROSSED
1926
00:51:26,669 --> 00:51:28,015
AND RABBIT'S FOOT OR WHATEVER
1927
00:51:28,050 --> 00:51:31,329
IT TAKES.
1928
00:51:31,364 --> 00:51:32,572
FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS,
1929
00:51:32,606 --> 00:51:33,780
MIKE HAS ALSO BEEN KEEPING HIS
1930
00:51:33,814 --> 00:51:35,506
FINGERS CROSSED.
1931
00:51:35,540 --> 00:51:37,059
TODAY HE GETS NEWS ABOUT THE
1932
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:40,545
ABSENTEE BALLOT LAWSUIT.
1933
00:51:40,580 --> 00:51:41,684
I'M OUT HERE AT TEA CREEK
1934
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:43,514
BAPTIST CHURCH.
1935
00:51:43,548 --> 00:51:45,032
NOW GO AHEAD, TELL ME AGAIN,
1936
00:51:45,067 --> 00:51:46,689
START FROM THE BEGINNING.
1937
00:51:46,724 --> 00:51:47,380
Man: Ronnie Bloemer called
1938
00:51:47,414 --> 00:51:49,485
me and said that he had gotten
1939
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,591
a call from the judge;
1940
00:51:51,625 --> 00:51:54,007
the plaintiff's petition
1941
00:51:54,041 --> 00:51:55,008
is denied.
1942
00:51:55,042 --> 00:51:56,147
That's what he said.
1943
00:51:56,182 --> 00:52:00,496
OH! [CHUCKLES]
1944
00:52:00,531 --> 00:52:02,705
SO CAN THEY APPEAL THAT,
1945
00:52:02,740 --> 00:52:03,499
OR CAN THEY--
1946
00:52:03,534 --> 00:52:04,155
Oh, sure.
1947
00:52:04,190 --> 00:52:05,294
Sure they can appeal it and
1948
00:52:05,329 --> 00:52:06,364
then, you know, they probably
1949
00:52:06,399 --> 00:52:07,296
will try and do that
1950
00:52:07,331 --> 00:52:08,332
tomorrow morning.
1951
00:52:08,366 --> 00:52:10,610
But the judge has ruled that it
1952
00:52:10,644 --> 00:52:13,613
was frivolous and they shall pay
1953
00:52:13,647 --> 00:52:15,339
defendants' attorney fees.
1954
00:52:15,373 --> 00:52:16,305
[LAUGHS]
1955
00:52:16,340 --> 00:52:17,168
There you go.
1956
00:52:17,203 --> 00:52:18,065
All right, listen,
1957
00:52:18,100 --> 00:52:19,066
I'll talk to you later.
1958
00:52:19,101 --> 00:52:20,447
ALL RIGHT, THANKS, MAN.
1959
00:52:20,482 --> 00:52:22,415
THANKS, BYE.
1960
00:52:22,449 --> 00:52:23,692
OH, MY GOD.
1961
00:52:23,726 --> 00:52:24,693
[PHONE BEEPS]
1962
00:52:24,727 --> 00:52:27,351
[CHUCKLES]
1963
00:52:27,385 --> 00:52:28,317
Woman: GENERAL ADMISSION
1964
00:52:28,352 --> 00:52:29,698
TO YOUR LEFT!
1965
00:52:29,732 --> 00:52:30,699
["EYE OF THE TIGER" PLAYING
1966
00:52:30,733 --> 00:52:38,534
ON LOUDSPEAKERS...]
1967
00:52:43,436 --> 00:52:48,579
[CROWD CHEERS, APPLAUDS]
1968
00:52:48,613 --> 00:52:53,722
[SONG CONTINUES]
1969
00:53:00,177 --> 00:53:01,730
McCain: INDIANA IS NOW A
1970
00:53:01,764 --> 00:53:03,559
BATTLEGROUND STATE, BUT IT'S A
1971
00:53:03,594 --> 00:53:05,596
BATTLE THAT WE'RE GONNA WIN!
1972
00:53:05,630 --> 00:53:06,735
WE'RE GONNA WIN THE BATTLE
1973
00:53:06,769 --> 00:53:07,736
IN INDIANA!
1974
00:53:07,770 --> 00:53:11,360
[CROWD CHEERS, APPLAUDS]
1975
00:53:11,395 --> 00:53:12,672
NOW, I'M ASKING YOU, IN THE NEXT
1976
00:53:12,706 --> 00:53:14,708
24 HOURS, VOLUNTEER, KNOCK ON
1977
00:53:14,743 --> 00:53:16,331
DOORS, GET YOUR NEIGHBORS
1978
00:53:16,365 --> 00:53:17,366
TO THE POLLS.
1979
00:53:17,401 --> 00:53:19,265
I NEED YOUR VOTE!
1980
00:53:19,299 --> 00:53:21,784
[CROWD CHEERS, APPLAUDS]
1981
00:53:21,819 --> 00:53:23,545
OH, THE RALLY WAS FABULOUS.
1982
00:53:23,579 --> 00:53:25,305
EVERYBODY WAS CHARGED UP AND I
1983
00:53:25,340 --> 00:53:26,755
THINK WHAT SENATOR McCAIN SAID
1984
00:53:26,789 --> 00:53:27,756
WAS PERFECT.
1985
00:53:27,790 --> 00:53:29,413
INDIANA, YOU KNOW, HAS BECOME A
1986
00:53:29,447 --> 00:53:30,690
BATTLEGROUND STATE BUT WE ARE
1987
00:53:30,724 --> 00:53:32,174
GONNA WIN THE BATTLE.
1988
00:53:37,248 --> 00:53:39,319
[CRICKETS CHIRPING...]
1989
00:53:39,354 --> 00:53:40,734
FINALLY, THE SUN SETS ON THE
1990
00:53:40,769 --> 00:53:42,667
MONTHS OF DOGGED LEGWORK,
1991
00:53:42,702 --> 00:53:44,324
SKIRMISHES AND SLEEPLESS
1992
00:53:44,359 --> 00:53:47,327
NIGHTS.
1993
00:53:47,362 --> 00:53:51,366
AND THEN, ELECTION DAY.
1994
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:52,125
AT THE RIPLEY COUNTY
1995
00:53:52,159 --> 00:53:54,231
COURTHOUSE, GINGER BRADFORD,
1996
00:53:54,265 --> 00:53:55,024
THE COUNTY CLERK,
1997
00:53:55,059 --> 00:53:59,408
OPENS HER OFFICE.
1998
00:54:02,204 --> 00:54:03,723
THIS IS THE KEYS TO UNLOCK
1999
00:54:03,757 --> 00:54:07,278
THE, UH, YOUR BOXES OVER THERE
2000
00:54:07,313 --> 00:54:12,214
WITH THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN IT.
2001
00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:14,354
THERE IT IS.
2002
00:54:14,389 --> 00:54:17,737
SO WE'VE GOT... TWO...
2003
00:54:17,771 --> 00:54:19,290
LIKE A STAR WITNESS IN A MOB
2004
00:54:19,325 --> 00:54:20,602
TRIAL, THE BALLOTS ARE BROUGHT
2005
00:54:20,636 --> 00:54:23,052
OUT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS.
2006
00:54:23,087 --> 00:54:23,708
THERE YOU GO.
2007
00:54:23,743 --> 00:54:24,709
O.K., I'LL SEE YOU IN
2008
00:54:24,744 --> 00:54:25,434
A LITTLE BIT.
2009
00:54:25,469 --> 00:54:27,022
ALL RIGHT.
2010
00:54:27,056 --> 00:54:27,678
Marshall: YEAH, WE WERE OUT
2011
00:54:27,712 --> 00:54:29,438
ALL NIGHT.
2012
00:54:29,473 --> 00:54:31,440
WE PUT UP A TON OF SIGNS.
2013
00:54:31,475 --> 00:54:32,614
I JUST STOPPED AT HOME TO CHANGE
2014
00:54:32,648 --> 00:54:34,374
CLOTHES AND BRUSH MY TEETH,
2015
00:54:34,409 --> 00:54:37,584
PUT SOME DEODORANT ON.
2016
00:54:37,619 --> 00:54:39,724
I SENT CLAYTON AND CAT BACK OUT.
2017
00:54:39,759 --> 00:54:43,003
THEY'RE OUT RIGHT NOW.
2018
00:54:43,038 --> 00:54:44,419
THE ABSENTEE BALLOTS ARRIVE
2019
00:54:44,453 --> 00:54:45,420
AT THE POLLING CENTER FOR
2020
00:54:45,454 --> 00:54:49,216
PROCESSING.
2021
00:54:49,251 --> 00:54:50,321
THE PRECINCT CAPTAIN BRINGS
2022
00:54:50,356 --> 00:54:51,702
THEM IN AND CONFIRMS THEY HAVE
2023
00:54:51,736 --> 00:54:53,013
THE SAME NUMBER THAT THE
2024
00:54:53,048 --> 00:54:55,775
CLERK'S OFFICE HAS ON RECORD.
2025
00:54:55,809 --> 00:54:58,053
THEN OUT COMES THE TOUCHSCREEN
2026
00:54:58,087 --> 00:54:59,503
VOTING MACHINE.
2027
00:54:59,537 --> 00:55:01,470
ELECTRONIC MACHINES LIKE THIS
2028
00:55:01,505 --> 00:55:03,058
WILL BE USED TODAY BY ALMOST
2029
00:55:03,092 --> 00:55:04,577
ONE-THIRD OF ALL AMERICAN
2030
00:55:04,611 --> 00:55:07,580
VOTERS.
2031
00:55:07,614 --> 00:55:08,546
...FOR AT LEAST A SHORT TIME
2032
00:55:08,581 --> 00:55:10,376
AFTER THE 2000 ELECTION MESS
2033
00:55:10,410 --> 00:55:12,067
IN PALM BEACH COUNTY,
2034
00:55:12,101 --> 00:55:14,345
ELECTRONIC VOTING WAS SEEN AS
2035
00:55:14,380 --> 00:55:15,588
THE SOLUTION.
2036
00:55:15,622 --> 00:55:17,348
DID IT LIVE UP TO ITS PROMISE?
2037
00:55:17,383 --> 00:55:18,349
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
2038
00:55:18,384 --> 00:55:20,006
ADVANCEMENTS AS A RESULT OF THE
2039
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,422
MOVE TO ELECTRONIC VOTING.
2040
00:55:22,457 --> 00:55:23,596
IT'S MUCH MORE EFFICIENT IN
2041
00:55:23,630 --> 00:55:25,460
TERMS OF COLLECTING DATA AND
2042
00:55:25,494 --> 00:55:26,737
GETTING RESULTS QUICKLY
2043
00:55:26,771 --> 00:55:28,083
TO THE PUBLIC.
2044
00:55:28,117 --> 00:55:29,015
Man: LOADING ELECTION
2045
00:55:29,049 --> 00:55:30,430
LOGGING STARTUP.
2046
00:55:30,465 --> 00:55:31,673
IN ADDITION, THERE'S A LOT
2047
00:55:31,707 --> 00:55:33,606
LESS AMBIGUITY AND A LOT LESS
2048
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,334
LOST VOTES.
2049
00:55:37,368 --> 00:55:38,507
ON THE OTHER HAND, THE BIG
2050
00:55:38,542 --> 00:55:39,577
PROBLEM WITH THE MOVE TO
2051
00:55:39,612 --> 00:55:40,544
ELECTRONIC VOTING WAS THAT IT
2052
00:55:40,578 --> 00:55:42,373
HAPPENED SO QUICKLY AND IT WAS
2053
00:55:42,408 --> 00:55:44,410
SEEN AS THIS PANACEA.
2054
00:55:44,444 --> 00:55:46,101
SO IN 2002, CONGRESS PASSED THE
2055
00:55:46,135 --> 00:55:47,758
"HELP AMERICA VOTE" ACT,
2056
00:55:47,792 --> 00:55:49,656
INVESTED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND
2057
00:55:49,691 --> 00:55:50,623
TOLD EVERYBODY YOU HAVE
2058
00:55:50,657 --> 00:55:52,487
BASICALLY FOUR YEARS TO
2059
00:55:52,521 --> 00:55:54,316
COMPLETELY CHANGE THE
2060
00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:55,455
MACHINERY THAT YOU'RE
2061
00:55:55,490 --> 00:55:57,077
USING FOR ELECTIONS.
2062
00:55:57,112 --> 00:55:59,079
UM, NO PROCESSES IN PLACE,
2063
00:55:59,114 --> 00:56:00,736
NO REAL TESTING STANDARDS FOR
2064
00:56:00,771 --> 00:56:03,394
THESE MACHINES, SO THEY WEREN'T
2065
00:56:03,429 --> 00:56:05,189
AS SECURE AND RELIABLE, I THINK,
2066
00:56:05,223 --> 00:56:06,604
AS MANY HAD HOPED.
2067
00:56:06,639 --> 00:56:07,778
WHEN I HEAR COMPUTER VOTING,
2068
00:56:07,812 --> 00:56:09,676
I THINK "UH-OH, COULD SOMEONE
2069
00:56:09,711 --> 00:56:12,058
HACK INTO THAT AND JUST THROW
2070
00:56:12,092 --> 00:56:13,093
THE RESULTS COMPLETELY?"
2071
00:56:13,128 --> 00:56:14,232
AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE
2072
00:56:14,267 --> 00:56:15,475
THINK THAT.
2073
00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:17,443
THE VAST MAJORITY OF VOTING
2074
00:56:17,477 --> 00:56:18,685
SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
2075
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,722
TODAY HAVE SOME KIND OF PAPER
2076
00:56:20,756 --> 00:56:22,655
RECORD THAT CAN BE USED TO CHECK
2077
00:56:22,689 --> 00:56:24,104
THE VOTING MACHINES TO MAKE SURE
2078
00:56:24,139 --> 00:56:25,312
THAT THEY WERE RECORDING
2079
00:56:25,347 --> 00:56:26,348
ACCURATELY.
2080
00:56:26,383 --> 00:56:27,660
IF WE'RE DOING THAT, IT'S MUCH,
2081
00:56:27,694 --> 00:56:30,594
MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO HACK INTO
2082
00:56:30,628 --> 00:56:31,733
A SYSTEM.
2083
00:56:31,767 --> 00:56:32,734
NOW, HAVING SAID THAT,
2084
00:56:32,768 --> 00:56:34,149
THERE'S STILL A LOT THAT WE
2085
00:56:34,183 --> 00:56:35,184
COULD BE DOING.
2086
00:56:35,219 --> 00:56:36,358
THERE ARE 11 STATES IN THE
2087
00:56:36,393 --> 00:56:38,567
U.S. WHERE THEIR VOTING SYSTEMS
2088
00:56:38,602 --> 00:56:40,707
HAVE NO PAPER RECORD.
2089
00:56:40,742 --> 00:56:41,639
THEY'RE TOUCHSCREEN MACHINES
2090
00:56:41,674 --> 00:56:43,400
WITHOUT ANY PAPER TRAIL.
2091
00:56:43,434 --> 00:56:45,471
I SEE THAT AS A SECURITY RISK.
2092
00:56:45,505 --> 00:56:46,610
O.K., IT SAYS "INSERT CARD
2093
00:56:46,644 --> 00:56:47,473
TO BEGIN VOTING."
2094
00:56:47,507 --> 00:56:49,095
SO THIS ONE'S READY TO GO.
2095
00:56:49,129 --> 00:56:50,614
CURRENTLY, MANY STATES FOLLOW
2096
00:56:50,648 --> 00:56:52,029
VOLUNTARY VOTING SYSTEM
2097
00:56:52,063 --> 00:56:53,686
GUIDELINES, BUT THERE'S STILL
2098
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:56,516
NO FEDERAL STANDARDIZATION.
2099
00:56:56,551 --> 00:56:58,380
THE POLLS ARE NOW OPEN!
2100
00:56:58,415 --> 00:56:59,588
WITH THOSE WORDS, MORE THAN
2101
00:56:59,623 --> 00:57:02,142
900 PRECINCTS ACROSS INDIANA
2102
00:57:02,177 --> 00:57:04,731
OPENED THEIR DOORS.
2103
00:57:04,766 --> 00:57:06,492
BY 10 A.M., THE ELECTIONEERING
2104
00:57:06,526 --> 00:57:08,045
FOLKS WERE OUT MAKING THEIR
2105
00:57:08,079 --> 00:57:11,186
11th-HOUR SALES PITCHES.
2106
00:57:11,220 --> 00:57:12,601
DO YOU NEED MY I.D., TOO?
2107
00:57:12,636 --> 00:57:14,396
WE SURE DO.
2108
00:57:14,431 --> 00:57:15,155
ALL RIGHT.
2109
00:57:15,190 --> 00:57:17,364
I KNOW YOU KNOW ME.
2110
00:57:17,399 --> 00:57:19,470
YEAH, I KNOW YOU.
2111
00:57:19,505 --> 00:57:21,196
MRS. ATKINS SAW ME MISS THE
2112
00:57:21,230 --> 00:57:22,680
BUS ABOUT 800 TIMES WHEN I WAS
2113
00:57:22,715 --> 00:57:23,509
IN HIGH SCHOOL.
2114
00:57:23,543 --> 00:57:24,406
Rocca: WELL, YEAH, BUT YOU
2115
00:57:24,441 --> 00:57:25,165
COULD BE AN IMPERSONATOR.
2116
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:26,684
THAT'S TRUE.
2117
00:57:26,719 --> 00:57:28,997
ALL RIGHT, DO YOU WANT PAPER
2118
00:57:29,031 --> 00:57:29,998
OR TOUCH?
2119
00:57:30,032 --> 00:57:32,069
PAPER, DEFINITELY.
2120
00:57:32,103 --> 00:57:32,725
DO YOU NOT TRUST THE
2121
00:57:32,759 --> 00:57:33,760
TOUCH SCREEN?
2122
00:57:33,795 --> 00:57:35,141
I JUST PREFER PAPER.
2123
00:57:35,175 --> 00:57:36,073
I WOULD MUCH-- I'D RATHER
2124
00:57:36,107 --> 00:57:38,385
EVERYONE HAVE A PAPER BALLOT.
2125
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:39,559
DEE DEE FILLED IN A PAPER
2126
00:57:39,594 --> 00:57:41,423
BALLOT, WHICH WAS THEN FED INTO
2127
00:57:41,458 --> 00:57:42,631
AN OPTICAL SCANNER FOR
2128
00:57:42,666 --> 00:57:43,736
PROCESSING.
2129
00:57:43,770 --> 00:57:45,427
IT'S A BIG, BIG, BIG DEAL.
2130
00:57:45,462 --> 00:57:46,739
I'M EXCITED AND I HOPE IT ALL
2131
00:57:46,773 --> 00:57:48,050
WORKS OUT TODAY.
2132
00:57:48,085 --> 00:57:50,397
57% OF AMERICANS USED THIS
2133
00:57:50,432 --> 00:57:51,744
VOTING METHOD.
2134
00:57:51,778 --> 00:57:54,574
THERE IT GOES.
2135
00:57:54,609 --> 00:57:55,368
ALL RIGHT, WELL,
2136
00:57:55,402 --> 00:57:56,334
CONGRATULATIONS.
2137
00:57:56,369 --> 00:57:58,060
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2138
00:57:58,095 --> 00:57:59,614
NOW WE'VE GOT TO GO OUT
2139
00:57:59,648 --> 00:58:01,408
AND... [WHISPERS] CAMPAIGN.
2140
00:58:01,443 --> 00:58:02,582
WE CAN'T DO THAT IN HERE, BUT
2141
00:58:02,617 --> 00:58:04,066
WE'LL DO THAT THIS AFTERNOON.
2142
00:58:04,101 --> 00:58:06,103
ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT.
2143
00:58:06,137 --> 00:58:08,485
HOLD STILL. NO... [SMACK]
2144
00:58:08,519 --> 00:58:10,038
OH! ALMOST GOT HIM.
2145
00:58:10,072 --> 00:58:11,384
I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY.
2146
00:58:11,418 --> 00:58:13,490
[BOTH LAUGH]
2147
00:58:13,524 --> 00:58:14,491
IT WAS-- SERIOUSLY, I HAD IT
2148
00:58:14,525 --> 00:58:18,080
LIKE, IT WAS RIGHT THERE.
2149
00:58:18,115 --> 00:58:18,874
CENTRAL TO MIKE'S
2150
00:58:18,909 --> 00:58:20,738
ELECTION-DAY OPERATION IS THIS
2151
00:58:20,773 --> 00:58:22,740
POLLING BOOK-- A THICK TOME
2152
00:58:22,775 --> 00:58:24,501
LISTING EVERY DEMOCRATIC VOTER
2153
00:58:24,535 --> 00:58:26,433
IN JENNINGS COUNTY.
2154
00:58:26,468 --> 00:58:27,262
FIRST NAME?
2155
00:58:27,296 --> 00:58:29,091
WHEN A DEMOCRAT VOTES, HIS OR
2156
00:58:29,126 --> 00:58:31,059
HER NAME IS CHECKED OFF A LIST.
2157
00:58:31,093 --> 00:58:31,715
THEY'LL HAVE TO SEE YOUR
2158
00:58:31,749 --> 00:58:32,716
I.D. UP THERE.
2159
00:58:32,750 --> 00:58:33,751
THE NAME IS FORWARDED TO
2160
00:58:33,786 --> 00:58:35,477
HEADQUARTERS, WHERE A TEAM OF
2161
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:37,548
HIGH SCHOOL KIDS KEEPS A TALLY.
2162
00:58:37,583 --> 00:58:39,136
THIS PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
2163
00:58:39,170 --> 00:58:40,689
ALLOWS MIKE'S TEAM TO QUICKLY
2164
00:58:40,724 --> 00:58:42,657
IDENTIFY WHICH JENNINGS COUNTY
2165
00:58:42,691 --> 00:58:45,349
DEMOCRATS HAVEN'T VOTED YET.
2166
00:58:45,383 --> 00:58:46,384
AND THAT'S HOW WE GO AFTER
2167
00:58:46,419 --> 00:58:47,524
VOTERS AND MAKE SURE WE GET THE
2168
00:58:47,558 --> 00:58:49,008
STRAGGLERS AND GET 'EM
2169
00:58:49,042 --> 00:58:50,354
TO THE POLLS.
2170
00:58:50,388 --> 00:58:53,426
AND THAT'S HOW WE WIN.
2171
00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:54,289
Marshall: THE NUMBERS ARE
2172
00:58:54,323 --> 00:58:57,085
HUGE. YEAH? HOW WE LOOKING?
2173
00:58:57,119 --> 00:58:58,362
WE HAVEN'T GOT 'EM ALL IN,
2174
00:58:58,396 --> 00:59:00,019
BUT EVERY PRECINCT THAT'S IN,
2175
00:59:00,053 --> 00:59:01,296
THEY'RE HUGE.
2176
00:59:01,330 --> 00:59:01,883
REALLY?
2177
00:59:01,917 --> 00:59:02,677
THIS IS JUST UNHEARD OF
2178
00:59:02,711 --> 00:59:04,333
AT 10:00 IN THE MORNING.
2179
00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:05,507
I HAVEN'T HAD A RUSH LIKE THIS
2180
00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:06,681
SINCE THE FIRST TIME I VOTED.
2181
00:59:06,715 --> 00:59:07,578
REALLY?
2182
00:59:07,613 --> 00:59:10,201
WHEN I WAS 18-- 1970.
2183
00:59:10,236 --> 00:59:11,202
SO YOU WERE WORKING THE POLLS
2184
00:59:11,237 --> 00:59:12,479
THE FIRST TIME YOU VOTED?
2185
00:59:12,514 --> 00:59:13,342
YEAH, I WAS WORKING
2186
00:59:13,377 --> 00:59:14,309
AS A POLLBOOK HOLDER.
2187
00:59:14,343 --> 00:59:15,586
INSIDE OR OUTSIDE?
2188
00:59:15,621 --> 00:59:16,587
OUTSIDE-- THEY MADE US STAND
2189
00:59:16,622 --> 00:59:17,588
OUTSIDE. WHO WAS THE FIRST
2190
00:59:17,623 --> 00:59:19,486
PERSON YOU VOTED FOR?
2191
00:59:19,521 --> 00:59:21,005
I VOTED STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT.
2192
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:22,144
YEAH? YEAH.
2193
00:59:22,179 --> 00:59:23,249
I HEAR THAT GUY'S ALWAYS
2194
00:59:23,283 --> 00:59:27,011
ON THE BALLOT.
2195
00:59:27,046 --> 00:59:28,461
WITH EVERYONE WORKING SO HARD
2196
00:59:28,495 --> 00:59:29,704
TO GET OUT THE VOTE, I THOUGHT
2197
00:59:29,738 --> 00:59:32,085
I SHOULD PITCH IN A LITTLE.
2198
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:33,397
HEY, FLO!
2199
00:59:33,431 --> 00:59:34,640
LET'S GO!
2200
00:59:34,674 --> 00:59:37,194
FREE RIDE TO THE POLLS!
2201
00:59:37,228 --> 00:59:39,058
...YOU REMEMBER FLO, THE FORMER
2202
00:59:39,092 --> 00:59:40,404
FELON WHO THOUGHT SHE'D BEEN
2203
00:59:40,438 --> 00:59:42,751
BANNED FROM VOTING.
2204
00:59:42,786 --> 00:59:44,408
...ARE YOU HAPPY TO BE HERE?
2205
00:59:44,442 --> 00:59:46,444
Flo: SURE.
2206
00:59:46,479 --> 00:59:47,307
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
2207
00:59:47,342 --> 00:59:48,757
THE BALLOT?
2208
00:59:48,792 --> 00:59:51,139
I THINK IT'S WEIRD-LOOKING.
2209
00:59:51,173 --> 00:59:52,105
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S
2210
00:59:52,140 --> 00:59:53,520
MEANT BY THE STRAIGHT TICKET?
2211
00:59:55,557 --> 00:59:57,283
YOU COMPLETE THE ARROW ON
2212
00:59:57,317 --> 00:59:59,354
EITHER DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN OR
2213
00:59:59,388 --> 01:00:01,218
LIBERTARIAN OR YOU CAN SPLIT
2214
01:00:01,252 --> 01:00:04,704
YOUR VOTE, SUCH AS BARACK OBAMA
2215
01:00:04,739 --> 01:00:06,361
AND THEN MITCH DANIELS.
2216
01:00:06,395 --> 01:00:08,570
BARACK IS A DEMOCRAT AND MITCH
2217
01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:10,399
DANIELS IS A REPUBLICAN.
2218
01:00:10,434 --> 01:00:14,265
THAT'S SPLITTING YOUR TICKET.
2219
01:00:14,300 --> 01:00:15,128
Rocca: I THINK SHE'S STILL
2220
01:00:15,163 --> 01:00:16,129
CONFUSED ABOUT THIS WHOLE
2221
01:00:16,164 --> 01:00:18,407
STRAIGHT-PARTY TICKET THING.
2222
01:00:18,442 --> 01:00:21,652
I THINK IT'S CONFUSING.
2223
01:00:21,687 --> 01:00:22,757
Man: IT'S A DESIGN MESS.
2224
01:00:22,791 --> 01:00:24,655
A GIANT DESIGN MESS.
2225
01:00:24,690 --> 01:00:25,414
THINKING THAT AMERICA'S
2226
01:00:25,449 --> 01:00:26,761
BALLOTS MIGHT BENEFIT FROM A
2227
01:00:26,795 --> 01:00:29,039
MAKEOVER, I ASKED NOTED
2228
01:00:29,073 --> 01:00:30,627
DESIGNER TODD OLDHAM TO
2229
01:00:30,661 --> 01:00:32,145
CRITIQUE AN ASSORTMENT FROM
2230
01:00:32,180 --> 01:00:33,560
AROUND THE COUNTRY.
2231
01:00:33,595 --> 01:00:34,596
"TO VOTE, COMPLETE THE ARROW
2232
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:35,632
TO THE LEFT OF YOUR CHOICE
2233
01:00:35,666 --> 01:00:37,634
LIKE THIS.
2234
01:00:37,668 --> 01:00:38,704
TO CAST A WRITE-IN VOTE,
2235
01:00:38,738 --> 01:00:40,188
COMPLETE THE ARROW TO THE LEFT
2236
01:00:40,222 --> 01:00:41,154
OF THE BLANK..."
2237
01:00:41,189 --> 01:00:43,156
SEE, I'M ALREADY CONFUSED.
2238
01:00:43,191 --> 01:00:44,261
"FOR SPECIAL INFORMATION, REFER
2239
01:00:44,295 --> 01:00:45,572
TO THE CARD OF INSTRUC..."
2240
01:00:45,607 --> 01:00:46,573
[MUTTERING]
2241
01:00:46,608 --> 01:00:49,300
THIS IS A HUNK OF LIKE,
2242
01:00:49,335 --> 01:00:50,612
WORD GARBAGE RIGHT THERE.
2243
01:00:50,647 --> 01:00:53,097
AND HOW NOT INTUITIVE IS THIS?
2244
01:00:53,132 --> 01:00:55,134
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ASKED TO DRAW
2245
01:00:55,168 --> 01:00:56,687
A LINE BETWEEN TWO ARROWS?
2246
01:00:56,722 --> 01:00:57,377
Rocca: IT'S LIKE A WEIRD
2247
01:00:57,412 --> 01:00:58,655
DRUNK DRIVING TEST. [LAUGHS]
2248
01:00:58,689 --> 01:01:00,070
YEAH, IT IS. LIKE, CAN YOU
2249
01:01:00,104 --> 01:01:00,691
DRAW THE LINE STRAIGHT?
2250
01:01:00,726 --> 01:01:02,175
I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS EVER,
2251
01:01:02,210 --> 01:01:03,383
IN ANYTHING.
2252
01:01:03,418 --> 01:01:05,109
THIS IS JUST DOWNRIGHT BIZARRE.
2253
01:01:05,144 --> 01:01:06,110
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT THE
2254
01:01:06,145 --> 01:01:07,664
BIGGEST PROBLEM, APPARENTLY,
2255
01:01:07,698 --> 01:01:09,424
WAS THOSE VOTING FOR EITHER
2256
01:01:09,458 --> 01:01:11,702
DICK DURBIN OR JIM DURKIN--
2257
01:01:11,737 --> 01:01:13,324
DURBIN WON THE RACE--
2258
01:01:13,359 --> 01:01:14,636
COMPLETED THE ARROW TO
2259
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:16,569
THE RIGHT. MM-HMM.
2260
01:01:16,603 --> 01:01:18,122
ARROWS SUGGEST FORWARD MOVEMENT
2261
01:01:18,157 --> 01:01:19,641
OR, YOU KNOW, SOME TRAJECTORY
2262
01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,022
BASED ON THE POINT OF THE ARROW,
2263
01:01:21,056 --> 01:01:22,437
SO, UH, IT'S POINTING ME
2264
01:01:22,471 --> 01:01:23,438
IN THAT DIRECTION. THAT'S
2265
01:01:23,472 --> 01:01:24,404
RIGHT, IT'S PUSHING MY EYE
2266
01:01:24,439 --> 01:01:25,371
TO THE RIGHT. YEAH, IT'S
2267
01:01:25,405 --> 01:01:26,372
TELLING YOU TO MAKE YOUR
2268
01:01:26,406 --> 01:01:27,407
DECISION AND MARK IT HERE.
2269
01:01:27,442 --> 01:01:28,408
IT'S NOT TELLING YOU TO REVERT
2270
01:01:28,443 --> 01:01:30,169
IN THE WAY THAT THE BOX WOULD.
2271
01:01:30,203 --> 01:01:31,411
IT'S JUST AWFUL COMMUNICATION.
2272
01:01:31,446 --> 01:01:34,104
IT REALLY MAKES YOU WONDER IF
2273
01:01:34,138 --> 01:01:35,622
THERE WAS NOT ANOTHER MOTIVE
2274
01:01:35,657 --> 01:01:36,623
BEHIND THIS.
2275
01:01:36,658 --> 01:01:37,694
AND THEN, THIS ONE I DON'T
2276
01:01:37,728 --> 01:01:39,316
EVEN NEED TO GIVE YOU ANY SORT
2277
01:01:39,350 --> 01:01:40,662
OF PREFACE TO...
2278
01:01:40,697 --> 01:01:42,733
YEAH-- GOOD OLD 2000.
2279
01:01:42,768 --> 01:01:43,734
THIS ONE KIND OF WRECKED THE
2280
01:01:43,769 --> 01:01:44,597
WORLD, DIDN'T IT?
2281
01:01:44,631 --> 01:01:45,736
CAN YOU BEGIN TO ENUMERATE
2282
01:01:45,771 --> 01:01:47,220
THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS?
2283
01:01:47,255 --> 01:01:48,118
WE'LL GO WITH JUST WHAT'S
2284
01:01:48,152 --> 01:01:49,360
NATURALLY COUNTER-INTUITIVE
2285
01:01:49,395 --> 01:01:50,016
HERE.
2286
01:01:50,051 --> 01:01:51,086
AND IT'S, WE TALKED ABOUT IT
2287
01:01:51,121 --> 01:01:53,537
EARLIER, WHICH IS LEFT--
2288
01:01:53,571 --> 01:01:54,262
ACTIVATING LEFT,
2289
01:01:54,296 --> 01:01:55,194
ACTIVATING RIGHT.
2290
01:01:55,228 --> 01:01:57,230
THIS IS NOT WITHIN OUR MINDSET
2291
01:01:57,265 --> 01:01:57,886
AT ALL.
2292
01:01:57,921 --> 01:01:59,681
THEN THESE THINGS SLID DOWN
2293
01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:01,545
BEHIND IT AND WERE PUNCTURED.
2294
01:02:01,579 --> 01:02:02,995
WELL, YOU CAN SEE IMMEDIATELY
2295
01:02:03,029 --> 01:02:04,134
THAT THEY DON'T PROPERLY
2296
01:02:04,168 --> 01:02:05,307
LINE UP.
2297
01:02:05,342 --> 01:02:06,584
THE SPACING BETWEEN THIS HAS
2298
01:02:06,619 --> 01:02:08,069
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SPACING
2299
01:02:08,103 --> 01:02:10,692
BETWEEN THESE BANNERS HERE.
2300
01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:11,969
YOU CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT.
2301
01:02:12,004 --> 01:02:14,109
PLUS THIS IS 2000!
2302
01:02:14,144 --> 01:02:16,698
I WOULD BELIEVE THIS FROM 1942
2303
01:02:16,733 --> 01:02:17,734
OR SOMETHING.
2304
01:02:17,768 --> 01:02:19,218
IT'S LIKE AN ADVENT CALENDAR
2305
01:02:19,252 --> 01:02:23,153
OR SOMETHING, OR LIKE A--
2306
01:02:23,187 --> 01:02:24,982
AND I LOVE AN ADVENT CALENDAR,
2307
01:02:25,017 --> 01:02:26,466
BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT
2308
01:02:26,501 --> 01:02:27,744
DECIDING WHO'S PRESIDENT.
2309
01:02:27,778 --> 01:02:29,607
AND IT SAYS, "VOTE FOR GROUP."
2310
01:02:29,642 --> 01:02:30,332
"GROUP" TELLS YOU TO
2311
01:02:30,367 --> 01:02:31,023
VOTE TWICE.
2312
01:02:31,057 --> 01:02:32,058
AND THERE'S NOTHING THERE THAT
2313
01:02:32,093 --> 01:02:33,473
SAYS TO PUNCH ONLY ONE HOLE.
2314
01:02:33,508 --> 01:02:34,474
WE NEED A THIRD SET OF
2315
01:02:34,509 --> 01:02:36,028
PARENTHESES. YOU'RE RIGHT.
2316
01:02:36,062 --> 01:02:37,167
...I GOT HIS POINT.
2317
01:02:37,201 --> 01:02:38,755
PALM BEACH COUNTY TOSSED OUT
2318
01:02:38,789 --> 01:02:41,585
MORE THAN 6600 DOUBLE-PUNCHES
2319
01:02:41,619 --> 01:02:42,724
FOR AL GORE AND ANOTHER
2320
01:02:42,759 --> 01:02:44,036
CANDIDATE.
2321
01:02:44,070 --> 01:02:45,244
AND THE ELECTION WAS DECIDED BY
2322
01:02:45,278 --> 01:02:48,454
537 VOTES STATEWIDE.
2323
01:02:48,488 --> 01:02:49,696
SO, I THINK WHAT'S SCARY IS
2324
01:02:49,731 --> 01:02:51,422
THE INCONSISTENCIES OF DESIGN
2325
01:02:51,457 --> 01:02:52,665
AND THE FACT THAT NO ONE SEEMS
2326
01:02:52,699 --> 01:02:53,977
TO BE IN CHARGE.
2327
01:02:54,011 --> 01:02:55,047
HOW COME THERE'S NOT A NATIONAL
2328
01:02:55,081 --> 01:02:56,703
CONSISTENCY FOR THESE THINGS?
2329
01:02:56,738 --> 01:02:58,222
I THINK BECAUSE A LOT OF
2330
01:02:58,257 --> 01:02:59,292
PEOPLE THINK IT SHOULD REMAIN
2331
01:02:59,327 --> 01:03:01,087
IN LOCAL CONTROL.
2332
01:03:01,122 --> 01:03:02,571
...NATIONAL CONSISTENCY MIGHT
2333
01:03:02,606 --> 01:03:04,228
SEEM UNATTAINABLE, AT LEAST
2334
01:03:04,263 --> 01:03:07,335
HERE IN THE U.S.
2335
01:03:07,369 --> 01:03:08,957
BUT THERE'S A PLACE NOT SO FAR
2336
01:03:08,992 --> 01:03:10,579
AWAY WHERE THEY'VE FIGURED OUT
2337
01:03:10,614 --> 01:03:12,236
A LOT OF THIS.
2338
01:03:12,271 --> 01:03:14,100
CANADA HAS HAD ONE NATIONAL
2339
01:03:14,135 --> 01:03:15,619
BALLOT DESIGN FOR ALMOST A
2340
01:03:15,653 --> 01:03:17,621
HUNDRED YEARS.
2341
01:03:17,655 --> 01:03:19,692
YOU MARK IT WITH AN X IN THE
2342
01:03:19,726 --> 01:03:21,211
WHITE DOT.
2343
01:03:21,245 --> 01:03:22,971
COAST TO COAST, NEWFOUNDLAND TO
2344
01:03:23,006 --> 01:03:25,422
VANCOUVER AND NORTH TO SOUTH.
2345
01:03:25,456 --> 01:03:26,112
GOOD AFTERNOON,
2346
01:03:26,147 --> 01:03:27,942
ELECTIONS CANADA, WILLOWDALE.
2347
01:03:27,976 --> 01:03:28,735
THEY'VE ALSO TAKEN THE
2348
01:03:28,770 --> 01:03:30,945
PARTISAN RANCOR OUT OF VOTING
2349
01:03:30,979 --> 01:03:32,291
BY ESTABLISHING AN INDEPENDENT
2350
01:03:32,325 --> 01:03:34,189
ORGANIZATION THAT OVERSEES
2351
01:03:34,224 --> 01:03:35,950
ALL ELECTIONS.
2352
01:03:35,984 --> 01:03:36,743
Man: YOU'VE GOT TO REACH OUT
2353
01:03:36,778 --> 01:03:39,229
TO THE PEOPLE AND MAKE SURE THAT
2354
01:03:39,263 --> 01:03:41,127
THE REASONS FOR WHICH THEY DON'T
2355
01:03:41,162 --> 01:03:42,577
VOTE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
2356
01:03:42,611 --> 01:03:46,581
COMPLEXITY OF THE SYSTEM.
2357
01:03:46,615 --> 01:03:51,482
EITHER WAY? YES.
2358
01:03:51,517 --> 01:03:52,621
DOES IT SHRED THEM AS IT GOES
2359
01:03:52,656 --> 01:03:54,589
THROUGH? NO, MA'AM.
2360
01:03:54,623 --> 01:03:56,729
SO AT THE AGE OF 50,
2361
01:03:56,763 --> 01:03:59,249
FLO PERKINS JOINED 15 MILLION
2362
01:03:59,283 --> 01:04:01,078
OTHER AMERICANS WHO CAST
2363
01:04:01,113 --> 01:04:03,184
BALLOTS FOR THE FIRST TIME
2364
01:04:03,218 --> 01:04:04,944
ON THIS DAY.
2365
01:04:04,979 --> 01:04:07,705
NICE.
2366
01:04:07,740 --> 01:04:09,017
BEN?
2367
01:04:09,052 --> 01:04:10,605
YEAH, WHAT'S THE LATEST?
2368
01:04:10,639 --> 01:04:12,055
AS THE AFTERNOON WORE ON,
2369
01:04:12,089 --> 01:04:13,090
MIKE AND HIS CREW STAYED
2370
01:04:13,125 --> 01:04:14,989
VIGILANT, PUSHING JUST AS HARD
2371
01:04:15,023 --> 01:04:16,991
AT 4 P.M. AS THEY HAD BEEN
2372
01:04:17,025 --> 01:04:18,751
AT 10 A.M.
2373
01:04:18,785 --> 01:04:20,201
HOW MANY BALLOTS DID THEY TRY
2374
01:04:20,235 --> 01:04:21,167
TO THROW OUT?
2375
01:04:21,202 --> 01:04:22,755
HOW MANY DID THEY THROW OUT?
2376
01:04:22,789 --> 01:04:24,205
THREE?
2377
01:04:24,239 --> 01:04:25,654
DO YOU HAVE THE NAMES?
2378
01:04:25,689 --> 01:04:26,586
Marshall: WHAT PRECINCT?
2379
01:04:26,621 --> 01:04:28,519
SPENCER SOUTH.
2380
01:04:28,554 --> 01:04:29,210
BEN SAID, "I THOUGHT
2381
01:04:29,244 --> 01:04:30,694
YOU'D WANT TO KNOW." [LAUGHS]
2382
01:04:30,728 --> 01:04:31,695
Marshall: NO SIGNATURE,
2383
01:04:31,729 --> 01:04:33,110
THAT'S NOT A RED FLAG.
2384
01:04:33,145 --> 01:04:34,594
NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
2385
01:04:34,629 --> 01:04:36,320
O.K., LET ME-- CALL ME BACK
2386
01:04:36,355 --> 01:04:40,221
IF YOU GET ANYBODY ELSE.
2387
01:04:40,255 --> 01:04:42,602
O.K., THANKS, BEN, BYE.
2388
01:04:42,637 --> 01:04:43,224
BOY, THOSE KIDS.
2389
01:04:43,258 --> 01:04:44,604
I WANT THESE KIDS AS POLL
2390
01:04:44,639 --> 01:04:46,192
WATCHERS EVERY YEAR.
2391
01:04:46,227 --> 01:04:48,022
SAMUEL DID NOT HAVE A SIGNATURE,
2392
01:04:48,056 --> 01:04:49,126
THEY'RE SAYING NINA LOUISE
2393
01:04:49,161 --> 01:04:51,680
HAUSBERGER AND JACOB TRIMPE DID
2394
01:04:51,715 --> 01:04:53,199
NOT-- THEIR SIGNATURES DID
2395
01:04:53,234 --> 01:04:54,166
NOT MATCH.
2396
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:54,891
SHE LIVES A QUARTER-MILE
2397
01:04:54,925 --> 01:04:56,340
SOUTH OF THE POLLS. LET'S GO.
2398
01:04:56,375 --> 01:04:57,341
Marshall: GET HER ON THE
2399
01:04:57,376 --> 01:04:58,204
PHONE, JUST CALL 'EM,
2400
01:04:58,239 --> 01:04:59,343
TELL 'EM TO GO TO THE POLLS.
2401
01:04:59,378 --> 01:05:00,413
DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATES FOR
2402
01:05:00,448 --> 01:05:02,036
THE CITIES? HERE'S 3B.
2403
01:05:02,070 --> 01:05:04,348
I NEED GENEVA ONE EAST.
2404
01:05:04,383 --> 01:05:06,454
WE JUST FOUND OUT THAT AT THE
2405
01:05:06,488 --> 01:05:09,422
POLLING PLACE, THEY THREW OUT
2406
01:05:09,457 --> 01:05:10,976
YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT BECAUSE
2407
01:05:11,010 --> 01:05:12,218
THEY CLAIMED YOUR SIGNATURE
2408
01:05:12,253 --> 01:05:12,978
DIDN'T MATCH WITH THE
2409
01:05:13,012 --> 01:05:14,186
APPLICATION.
2410
01:05:14,220 --> 01:05:16,188
SO YOU HAVE UNTIL 6:00 TO
2411
01:05:16,222 --> 01:05:18,155
GO DOWN THERE AND GET IN LINE.
2412
01:05:18,190 --> 01:05:19,467
IF YOU'RE IN LINE AT 6:00,
2413
01:05:19,501 --> 01:05:20,468
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO VOTE
2414
01:05:20,502 --> 01:05:22,297
AND THAT VOTE WILL COUNT.
2415
01:05:22,332 --> 01:05:23,436
AND YOU MAKE SURE YOU TAKE YOUR
2416
01:05:23,471 --> 01:05:24,437
PHOTO I.D. WITH YOU, YOUR
2417
01:05:24,472 --> 01:05:25,956
DRIVER'S LICENSE WITH YOU, NINA.
2418
01:05:25,991 --> 01:05:27,613
THANK YOU-- BYE.
2419
01:05:27,647 --> 01:05:28,717
[LOUD SMACK]
2420
01:05:28,752 --> 01:05:32,445
YEAH...
2421
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:33,481
BACK AT THE RIPLEY COUNTY
2422
01:05:33,515 --> 01:05:35,345
POLLING CENTER, DEE DEE WAS
2423
01:05:35,379 --> 01:05:36,518
SWEATING OUT THE LAST
2424
01:05:36,553 --> 01:05:38,072
FEW HOURS.
2425
01:05:38,106 --> 01:05:41,040
I AM HOT!
2426
01:05:41,075 --> 01:05:42,386
IT'S JUST HOT OUT HERE.
2427
01:05:42,421 --> 01:05:44,492
I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
2428
01:05:44,526 --> 01:05:45,217
HOW YOU DOIN' TODAY?
2429
01:05:45,251 --> 01:05:46,494
GOOD TO SEE YOU-- YOU'RE HERE
2430
01:05:46,528 --> 01:05:47,391
FOR THE McCAIN STUFF, RIGHT?
2431
01:05:47,426 --> 01:05:48,461
YUP, PICK IT UP AND
2432
01:05:48,496 --> 01:05:50,118
I'LL TAKE IT OVER TO MILAN.
2433
01:05:50,153 --> 01:05:51,119
GOOD DEAL.
2434
01:05:51,154 --> 01:05:53,535
O.K., LET'S SEE.
2435
01:05:53,570 --> 01:05:55,192
IS THAT ENOUGH, YOU THINK?
2436
01:05:55,227 --> 01:05:56,193
YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH.
2437
01:05:56,228 --> 01:05:56,987
IS THAT TOO MUCH?
2438
01:05:57,022 --> 01:05:58,161
NO, THAT'LL BE PLENTY.
2439
01:05:58,195 --> 01:05:59,334
YEAH, I THINK FOR MILAN
2440
01:05:59,369 --> 01:06:01,095
THAT'D BE A GOOD AMOUNT.
2441
01:06:01,129 --> 01:06:02,268
YEAH, I JUST CAME BACK FROM
2442
01:06:02,303 --> 01:06:03,407
OVER THERE AND THEY HAD A PRETTY
2443
01:06:03,442 --> 01:06:04,029
GOOD TURNOUT OVER THERE.
2444
01:06:04,063 --> 01:06:05,133
GOOD-- I THINK IT'S BEEN A
2445
01:06:05,168 --> 01:06:05,685
GOOD TURNOUT EVERYWHERE.
2446
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:06,652
YEAH, IT IS, REALLY.
2447
01:06:06,686 --> 01:06:07,756
WELL, HEY, THANKS FOR PASSING
2448
01:06:07,791 --> 01:06:09,103
THAT OUT FOR SENATOR McCAIN AND
2449
01:06:09,137 --> 01:06:11,484
WE'LL KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED.
2450
01:06:11,519 --> 01:06:12,623
GO RED, INDIANA! YEP-- ALL
2451
01:06:12,658 --> 01:06:14,487
RIGHT, WE'LL TALK TO YOU LATER.
2452
01:06:14,522 --> 01:06:15,557
ALL RIGHT, TAKE CARE.
2453
01:06:15,592 --> 01:06:18,250
BYE-BYE. THANKS.
2454
01:06:18,284 --> 01:06:19,492
HE'S GOTTA WIN INDIANA.
2455
01:06:19,527 --> 01:06:20,631
IF WE DON'T WIN INDIANA, I THINK
2456
01:06:20,666 --> 01:06:23,600
THAT IS-- IT'S A BAD, BAD, BAD,
2457
01:06:23,634 --> 01:06:25,602
BAD SIGN.
2458
01:06:25,636 --> 01:06:27,293
OUTSIDE THE POLLING CENTER,
2459
01:06:27,328 --> 01:06:28,053
I CAUGHT UP WITH
2460
01:06:28,087 --> 01:06:29,571
LARRY SHICKLES, THE MAN WHO
2461
01:06:29,606 --> 01:06:31,746
SUED AND LOST OVER THE
2462
01:06:31,780 --> 01:06:33,472
JENNINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
2463
01:06:33,506 --> 01:06:35,370
ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
2464
01:06:35,405 --> 01:06:36,061
THERE'S A CONCERN THAT
2465
01:06:36,095 --> 01:06:37,338
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE
2466
01:06:37,372 --> 01:06:38,615
VOTED WHO ARE NOT LEGITIMATELY
2467
01:06:38,649 --> 01:06:39,650
REGISTERED VOTERS.
2468
01:06:39,685 --> 01:06:40,651
I MEAN, WE'VE HEARD OF MICKEY
2469
01:06:40,686 --> 01:06:42,757
MOUSE BEING REGISTERED AND DUMBO
2470
01:06:42,791 --> 01:06:44,241
IN OTHER STATES-- I HOPE WE
2471
01:06:44,276 --> 01:06:45,415
DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM HERE.
2472
01:06:45,449 --> 01:06:47,279
THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS IN THE
2473
01:06:47,313 --> 01:06:49,557
2006 ELECTION THAT IN JENNINGS
2474
01:06:49,591 --> 01:06:51,317
COUNTY THAT THERE PARTICULARLY
2475
01:06:51,352 --> 01:06:52,456
WAS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO
2476
01:06:52,491 --> 01:06:54,527
COLLECTED THE BALLOTS, TOOK THEM
2477
01:06:54,562 --> 01:06:56,115
TO A CENTRAL LOCATION AND SAT
2478
01:06:56,150 --> 01:06:57,634
DOWN ONE NIGHT AND VOTED THEM,
2479
01:06:57,668 --> 01:06:58,635
PUT THEM IN AN ENVELOPE--
2480
01:06:58,669 --> 01:06:59,498
THE ACTUAL BALLOTS?
2481
01:06:59,532 --> 01:07:00,602
NOT THE APPLICATIONS?
2482
01:07:00,637 --> 01:07:01,603
THE ACTUAL BALLOTS.
2483
01:07:01,638 --> 01:07:03,467
VOTED THOSE BALLOTS,
2484
01:07:03,502 --> 01:07:06,091
DROPPED THEM IN THE MAIL.
2485
01:07:06,125 --> 01:07:07,195
BUT YOU CAN'T VERIFY THAT.
2486
01:07:07,230 --> 01:07:08,196
I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU THINGS
2487
01:07:08,231 --> 01:07:08,886
THAT PEOPLE HAVE CALLED AND
2488
01:07:08,921 --> 01:07:10,336
SAID, BUT THE JUDGE PROHIBITED
2489
01:07:10,371 --> 01:07:12,407
US FROM VERIFYING THOSE UNTIL
2490
01:07:12,442 --> 01:07:13,546
THE ELECTION'S OVER.
2491
01:07:13,581 --> 01:07:14,582
AND LET ME SAY THAT JENNINGS
2492
01:07:14,616 --> 01:07:15,583
COUNTY IS GOING TO GO ON
2493
01:07:15,617 --> 01:07:17,171
FOR SIX OR SEVEN MONTHS.
2494
01:07:17,205 --> 01:07:19,414
WE'VE ONLY BEGUN.
2495
01:07:19,449 --> 01:07:21,106
5:40 P.M.
2496
01:07:21,140 --> 01:07:22,383
MIKE'S TEAM WAS FOCUSED ON
2497
01:07:22,417 --> 01:07:23,522
WRINGING OUT EVERY LAST
2498
01:07:23,556 --> 01:07:25,317
POSSIBLE VOTE FROM THOSE WHO
2499
01:07:25,351 --> 01:07:27,112
WERE REGISTERED.
2500
01:07:27,146 --> 01:07:32,151
[KNOCKING...]
2501
01:07:40,090 --> 01:07:41,022
IS THERE ANYBODY YOU KNOW
2502
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:42,023
THAT HASN'T VOTED RIGHT NOW
2503
01:07:42,058 --> 01:07:43,197
THAT WE NEED TO DRAG OUT?
2504
01:07:43,231 --> 01:07:43,749
Marshall: YOU KNOW WHERE
2505
01:07:43,783 --> 01:07:45,164
LITTLE GEORGIE IS?
2506
01:07:45,199 --> 01:07:46,096
HE MOVED.
2507
01:07:46,131 --> 01:07:47,201
WHERE'D HE GO?
2508
01:07:47,235 --> 01:07:48,409
HE'S ALREADY VOTED.
2509
01:07:48,443 --> 01:07:50,100
ALL RIGHT, ANYBODY ELSE?
2510
01:07:50,135 --> 01:07:50,790
ANYBODY ELSE SITTING AT HOME
2511
01:07:50,825 --> 01:07:52,102
RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO DRAG OUT?
2512
01:07:52,137 --> 01:07:52,758
Marshall: JUSTIN HAD AN
2513
01:07:52,792 --> 01:07:53,483
ABSENTEE, BUT HE DIDN'T MAIL
2514
01:07:53,517 --> 01:07:54,449
IT BACK. I KNOW IT.
2515
01:07:54,484 --> 01:07:55,450
BUT IF WE COULD FIND HIM,
2516
01:07:55,485 --> 01:07:56,727
WE COULD GET HIM IN THERE BY 6.
2517
01:07:56,762 --> 01:07:58,039
HE'S ON STATE STREET, DOWN IN
2518
01:07:58,074 --> 01:07:59,040
THE LITTLE APARTMENT.
2519
01:07:59,075 --> 01:07:59,696
I'VE BEEN THERE SIX TIMES,
2520
01:07:59,730 --> 01:08:01,422
FOUR LAST NIGHT, AND--
2521
01:08:01,456 --> 01:08:02,388
WELL, ONE TODAY AND FIVE
2522
01:08:02,423 --> 01:08:02,975
LAST NIGHT.
2523
01:08:03,009 --> 01:08:04,045
WHAT'S THE LATEST HE CAN
2524
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:05,322
VOTE TONIGHT? 6:00--
2525
01:08:05,357 --> 01:08:08,463
15, 20 MINUTES. OH NO.
2526
01:08:08,498 --> 01:08:09,602
YOU CAN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM?
2527
01:08:09,637 --> 01:08:10,603
CAN'T GET A HOLD OF HIM.
2528
01:08:10,638 --> 01:08:12,364
I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE'S AT.
2529
01:08:12,398 --> 01:08:13,365
WE NEED THAT VOTE!
2530
01:08:13,399 --> 01:08:14,228
I KNOW WE DO.
2531
01:08:14,262 --> 01:08:15,643
WE CAN'T FIND HIM.
2532
01:08:15,677 --> 01:08:18,094
[♪...]
2533
01:08:18,128 --> 01:08:19,095
AS THE CLOCK TICKED DOWN,
2534
01:08:19,129 --> 01:08:20,303
IT OCCURRED TO ME: DID THESE
2535
01:08:20,337 --> 01:08:21,442
VOTERS REALLY KNOW WHO THEY
2536
01:08:21,476 --> 01:08:23,168
WERE VOTING FOR?
2537
01:08:23,202 --> 01:08:25,239
CERTAINLY NOT THE PRESIDENT.
2538
01:08:25,273 --> 01:08:26,240
INSTEAD THEY'RE VOTING FOR
2539
01:08:26,274 --> 01:08:28,276
EITHER BEN LEATHERBURY OR DAVID
2540
01:08:28,311 --> 01:08:30,244
BUSKILL, OUR DEMOCRATIC AND
2541
01:08:30,278 --> 01:08:32,280
REPUBLICAN ELECTORS.
2542
01:08:32,315 --> 01:08:33,281
THIS WAS SOMETHING THE PEOPLE
2543
01:08:33,316 --> 01:08:36,629
OF INDIANA DESERVED TO KNOW.
2544
01:08:36,664 --> 01:08:38,424
...FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE,
2545
01:08:38,459 --> 01:08:39,391
DID YOU CAST YOUR BALLOT
2546
01:08:39,425 --> 01:08:45,086
FOR DAVID OR FOR BEN?
2547
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:46,467
FOR DAVID OR FOR BEN?
2548
01:08:46,501 --> 01:08:48,331
OH, GEE, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT
2549
01:08:48,365 --> 01:08:50,195
DAVID OR BEN.
2550
01:08:50,229 --> 01:08:51,230
YOU'RE VOTING FOR SOMEBODY
2551
01:08:51,265 --> 01:08:53,405
TO ACTUALLY VOTE FOR YOUR
2552
01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:56,580
CANDIDATE, SO...
2553
01:08:56,615 --> 01:08:57,202
I DON'T KNOW.
2554
01:08:57,236 --> 01:08:58,272
AND YOU'RE AWARE THAT HE'S
2555
01:08:58,306 --> 01:08:59,514
ONE OF THE ELECTORS?
2556
01:08:59,549 --> 01:09:01,482
YEAH.
2557
01:09:01,516 --> 01:09:02,448
ACTUALLY, NO.
2558
01:09:02,483 --> 01:09:03,656
SO YOU ENDED UP CASTING YOUR
2559
01:09:03,691 --> 01:09:05,141
VOTE FOR...
2560
01:09:05,175 --> 01:09:06,107
FOR BEN.
2561
01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:07,695
AND 10 OTHER OBAMA ELECTORS?
2562
01:09:07,729 --> 01:09:08,523
YES.
2563
01:09:08,558 --> 01:09:10,111
SO THAT ON DECEMBER 15,
2564
01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:10,663
THEY CAN...
2565
01:09:10,698 --> 01:09:12,286
VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA.
2566
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:13,356
AND THAT MAKES SENSE?
2567
01:09:13,390 --> 01:09:15,289
YES. REALLY?
2568
01:09:15,323 --> 01:09:17,498
NO-- NOT AT ALL.
2569
01:09:17,532 --> 01:09:19,085
AS IT HAPPENS, MOST PEOPLE
2570
01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:20,432
DIDN'T KNOW WHO DAVID AND BEN
2571
01:09:20,466 --> 01:09:22,227
WERE OR OF THE ROLE THE
2572
01:09:22,261 --> 01:09:23,331
ELECTORAL COLLEGE PLAYS
2573
01:09:23,366 --> 01:09:24,574
IN SHAPING THE CANDIDATES'
2574
01:09:24,608 --> 01:09:26,231
STRATEGY.
2575
01:09:26,265 --> 01:09:30,442
THEY JUST WANTED TO VOTE.
2576
01:09:30,476 --> 01:09:31,477
[BELL CHIMES IN DISTANCE]
2577
01:09:31,512 --> 01:09:33,445
OH, HEAR THAT BELL?
2578
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:35,240
All: HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
2579
01:09:35,274 --> 01:09:36,241
THE POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED!
2580
01:09:36,275 --> 01:09:38,691
[LAUGHING]
2581
01:09:38,726 --> 01:09:39,554
Woman: YES, THEY CAN START
2582
01:09:39,589 --> 01:09:43,351
TAKING SIGNS DOWN.
2583
01:09:43,386 --> 01:09:47,113
GARY CATNER, PATRICIA CATNER,
2584
01:09:47,148 --> 01:09:49,495
KENNETH COHEN, RIPLEY COOK...
2585
01:09:49,530 --> 01:09:50,496
[TAPPING ON DOOR]
2586
01:09:50,531 --> 01:09:51,497
Man: COME IN.
2587
01:09:51,532 --> 01:09:52,671
DANNY, IS THAT SOME OF OUR
2588
01:09:52,705 --> 01:09:55,294
WORKERS FROM THE CHURCH?
2589
01:09:55,329 --> 01:09:56,433
Man: I WAS JUST OVER AT
2590
01:09:56,468 --> 01:09:57,986
CROSS PLAINS AND THEY TOLD ME
2591
01:09:58,021 --> 01:09:59,229
I COULDN'T VOTE OVER THERE.
2592
01:09:59,264 --> 01:10:00,472
I HAD TO COME OVER HERE AND I
2593
01:10:00,506 --> 01:10:01,369
VOTED OVER THERE THE LAST
2594
01:10:01,404 --> 01:10:02,301
THREE TIMES.
2595
01:10:02,336 --> 01:10:04,510
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN.
2596
01:10:04,545 --> 01:10:06,063
I'M MAD.
2597
01:10:06,098 --> 01:10:07,617
WHY CAN'T I VOTE RIGHT NOW,
2598
01:10:07,651 --> 01:10:08,480
RIGHT HERE?
2599
01:10:08,514 --> 01:10:09,377
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN
2600
01:10:09,412 --> 01:10:10,551
AND QUIT YELLING.
2601
01:10:10,585 --> 01:10:11,276
I DON'T CARE.
2602
01:10:11,310 --> 01:10:12,035
IT AIN'T RIGHT!
2603
01:10:12,069 --> 01:10:12,760
IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!
2604
01:10:12,794 --> 01:10:13,485
WHY COULDN'T I VOTE
2605
01:10:13,519 --> 01:10:14,382
OVER THERE?
2606
01:10:14,417 --> 01:10:15,245
YOU WERE NOT REGISTERED
2607
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,488
FOR THAT PRECINCT.
2608
01:10:16,522 --> 01:10:18,697
ALL I WANT TO DO IS VOTE.
2609
01:10:18,731 --> 01:10:20,423
THE POLLS ARE CLOSED NOW.
2610
01:10:20,457 --> 01:10:21,424
I'VE BEEN OVER THERE FOR THE
2611
01:10:21,458 --> 01:10:22,459
LAST THREE ELECTIONS AND NOW ALL
2612
01:10:22,494 --> 01:10:24,979
OF A SUDDEN, I'M OVER HERE.
2613
01:10:25,013 --> 01:10:26,256
EVIDENTLY YOU DID A CHANGE
2614
01:10:26,291 --> 01:10:28,465
OF REGISTRATION TO BE
2615
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:29,501
VOTING UP HERE.
2616
01:10:29,535 --> 01:10:31,123
I DID NOT DO NO CHANGE
2617
01:10:31,157 --> 01:10:33,021
OF REGISTRATION. NOBODY
2618
01:10:33,056 --> 01:10:37,302
ELSE WOULD HAVE DONE IT.
2619
01:10:37,336 --> 01:10:38,510
Officer: HAVE A NICE EVENING.
2620
01:10:38,544 --> 01:10:41,029
YOU TOO-- BYE.
2621
01:10:41,064 --> 01:10:43,515
[DOOR SHUTS]
2622
01:10:43,549 --> 01:10:45,102
WELL, IT'S THE WEE, WEE LATE
2623
01:10:45,137 --> 01:10:47,553
HOUR OF 6 P.M. AND THE POLLS
2624
01:10:47,588 --> 01:10:50,522
ARE CLOSED ALL ACROSS INDIANA.
2625
01:10:50,556 --> 01:10:51,661
NOW IT'S TIME TO TABULATE
2626
01:10:51,695 --> 01:10:53,283
THE VOTES.
2627
01:10:53,318 --> 01:10:54,457
IN RIPLEY COUNTY, THE RESULTS
2628
01:10:54,491 --> 01:10:55,665
WERE IMMEDIATELY DISPLAYED TO
2629
01:10:55,699 --> 01:10:56,700
THE PUBLIC AS THEY WERE
2630
01:10:56,735 --> 01:10:57,977
CALCULATED.
2631
01:10:58,012 --> 01:10:58,978
O.K., LET'S SEE, LET'S SEE,
2632
01:10:59,013 --> 01:10:59,738
LET'S SEE, LET'S SEE.
2633
01:10:59,772 --> 01:11:01,602
100% YAY!
2634
01:11:01,636 --> 01:11:03,293
MORRIS, WHOO-HOO!
2635
01:11:03,328 --> 01:11:07,366
6,552 TO 5,465.
2636
01:11:07,401 --> 01:11:08,298
54-45.
2637
01:11:08,333 --> 01:11:10,300
WE'LL TAKE IT.
2638
01:11:10,335 --> 01:11:14,615
GOT TO LOVE IT, YES!
2639
01:11:14,649 --> 01:11:16,375
[WOMAN LAUGHS]
2640
01:11:16,410 --> 01:11:17,445
THE REPUBLICANS WERE DOING
2641
01:11:17,480 --> 01:11:19,551
WELL IN MANY LOCAL RACES.
2642
01:11:19,585 --> 01:11:21,000
BUT MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES
2643
01:11:21,035 --> 01:11:22,381
WERE HOLDING THEIR BREATH FOR
2644
01:11:22,416 --> 01:11:23,382
THE BIG ONE.
2645
01:11:23,417 --> 01:11:26,627
[PEOPLE CHEER, APPLAUD]
2646
01:11:26,661 --> 01:11:27,973
AT JENNINGS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC
2647
01:11:28,007 --> 01:11:29,388
HEADQUARTERS, A CROWD WAS
2648
01:11:29,423 --> 01:11:30,734
GATHERING TO WATCH THE FIRST
2649
01:11:30,769 --> 01:11:33,012
ELECTION RETURNS.
2650
01:11:33,047 --> 01:11:34,566
1A!
2651
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:35,325
Rocca: SO WHAT'S THE
2652
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:36,050
MOOD HERE?
2653
01:11:36,084 --> 01:11:37,396
Woman: WONDERFUL.
2654
01:11:37,431 --> 01:11:38,604
VERY HAPPY.
2655
01:11:38,639 --> 01:11:39,743
IT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR THE
2656
01:11:39,778 --> 01:11:41,124
THINGS TO COME IN, YEAH?
2657
01:11:41,158 --> 01:11:43,747
YEAH, YEAH, AND YOU KNOW,
2658
01:11:43,782 --> 01:11:45,611
IT'S AWFULLY HARD TO WAIT.
2659
01:11:45,646 --> 01:11:46,509
IT'S VERY HARD TO WAIT.
2660
01:11:46,543 --> 01:11:47,406
DO YOU WISH IT WERE
2661
01:11:47,441 --> 01:11:48,304
COMPUTERIZED?
2662
01:11:48,338 --> 01:11:49,512
THAT WOULD BE NICE.
2663
01:11:49,546 --> 01:11:50,340
IT WOULD.
2664
01:11:50,375 --> 01:11:51,065
OVER IN RIPLEY COUNTY,
2665
01:11:51,099 --> 01:11:51,617
THEY HAVE THAT.
2666
01:11:51,652 --> 01:11:52,653
OH, IS IT REALLY?
2667
01:11:52,687 --> 01:11:54,655
OH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT!
2668
01:11:54,689 --> 01:11:58,659
134 TO 115.
2669
01:11:58,693 --> 01:12:01,524
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
2670
01:12:01,558 --> 01:12:02,973
THE ROOM WOULD BE PACKED FOR
2671
01:12:03,008 --> 01:12:04,458
THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS AS
2672
01:12:04,492 --> 01:12:06,322
RESULTS CAME IN.
2673
01:12:06,356 --> 01:12:07,357
EVEN OUTSIDE IT WAS
2674
01:12:07,392 --> 01:12:09,255
STANDING-ROOM ONLY.
2675
01:12:09,290 --> 01:12:10,498
OBAMA JUST WON PENNSYLVANIA.
2676
01:12:10,533 --> 01:12:11,499
Woman: OBAMA WON
2677
01:12:11,534 --> 01:12:12,500
PENNSYLVANIA!
2678
01:12:12,535 --> 01:12:13,501
Woman 2: OBAMA WON
2679
01:12:13,536 --> 01:12:15,710
PENNSYLVANIA!
2680
01:12:15,745 --> 01:12:17,298
AND THE REST, AS THEY SAY,
2681
01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:19,231
IS HISTORY.
2682
01:12:19,265 --> 01:12:21,992
[DRAMATIC DRUMMING]
2683
01:12:22,027 --> 01:12:24,029
AND CNN CAN NOW PROJECT THAT
2684
01:12:24,063 --> 01:12:26,721
BARACK OBAMA, 47 YEARS OLD,
2685
01:12:26,756 --> 01:12:28,654
WILL BECOME THE PRESIDENT-ELECT
2686
01:12:28,689 --> 01:12:30,276
OF THE UNITED STATES.
2687
01:12:30,311 --> 01:12:36,282
[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]
2688
01:12:36,317 --> 01:12:37,663
HELLO, CHICAGO!
2689
01:12:37,698 --> 01:12:40,252
[LOUDER CHEERING]
2690
01:12:40,286 --> 01:12:45,222
[♪...]
2691
01:12:45,257 --> 01:12:46,638
SO IT CAME TO BE THAT NEARLY
2692
01:12:46,672 --> 01:12:49,503
67 MILLION AMERICANS CAST THEIR
2693
01:12:49,537 --> 01:12:52,229
BALLOTS FOR BARACK OBAMA.
2694
01:12:52,264 --> 01:12:54,128
THE PEOPLE, OR AT LEAST THOSE
2695
01:12:54,162 --> 01:12:55,578
WHO'D MANAGED TO REGISTER AND
2696
01:12:55,612 --> 01:12:57,683
VOTE, HAD SPOKEN.
2697
01:12:57,718 --> 01:13:00,237
AT 61% OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS,
2698
01:13:00,272 --> 01:13:02,032
IT WAS THE HIGHEST TURNOUT
2699
01:13:02,067 --> 01:13:04,069
SINCE 1964.
2700
01:13:04,103 --> 01:13:05,415
AND NOW IT WAS TIME FOR THE
2701
01:13:05,450 --> 01:13:07,175
REAL ELECTION.
2702
01:13:07,210 --> 01:13:08,522
...WELL, THE BIG DAY
2703
01:13:08,556 --> 01:13:10,144
HAS ARRIVED.
2704
01:13:10,178 --> 01:13:11,421
THE FIRST MONDAY AFTER THE
2705
01:13:11,456 --> 01:13:15,391
SECOND WEDNESDAY IN DECEMBER.
2706
01:13:15,425 --> 01:13:16,978
ELECTION DAY.
2707
01:13:17,013 --> 01:13:19,153
AND THAT'S WHY I'VE COME HERE,
2708
01:13:19,187 --> 01:13:21,638
TO THE INDIANA STATE CAPITOL.
2709
01:13:21,673 --> 01:13:22,639
Man: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
2710
01:13:22,674 --> 01:13:23,985
AS THEY COME FROM THE BACK OF
2711
01:13:24,020 --> 01:13:24,607
THE ROOM, PLEASE WELCOME
2712
01:13:24,641 --> 01:13:26,125
INDIANA'S ELECTORS AND THE
2713
01:13:26,160 --> 01:13:27,472
ALTERNATE ELECTORS.
2714
01:13:27,506 --> 01:13:30,509
[APPLAUSE]
2715
01:13:30,544 --> 01:13:31,510
I WAS HERE FOR THE CONVENING
2716
01:13:31,545 --> 01:13:33,650
OF INDIANA'S DELEGATION TO THE
2717
01:13:33,685 --> 01:13:37,516
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
2718
01:13:37,551 --> 01:13:39,242
TODD, ARE WE GONNA NEED
2719
01:13:39,276 --> 01:13:41,278
A PHOTO I.D.?
2720
01:13:41,313 --> 01:13:45,282
[LAUGHTER]
2721
01:13:45,317 --> 01:13:47,630
Man: GOOD QUESTION.
2722
01:13:47,664 --> 01:13:54,326
[LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE, WHISTLES]
2723
01:14:01,540 --> 01:14:02,507
WITH ALL THE POMP,
2724
01:14:02,541 --> 01:14:04,336
CIRCUMSTANCE AND POINTED BARBS
2725
01:14:04,370 --> 01:14:06,442
ASIDE, 19-YEAR-OLD BEN
2726
01:14:06,476 --> 01:14:08,305
LEATHERBURY AND THE 10 OTHER
2727
01:14:08,340 --> 01:14:10,515
DEMOCRAT ELECTORS CAST THEIR
2728
01:14:10,549 --> 01:14:12,275
HISTORIC VOTES.
2729
01:14:12,309 --> 01:14:13,379
Man: IF I CAN HAVE YOUR
2730
01:14:13,414 --> 01:14:14,070
ATTENTION, PLEASE?
2731
01:14:14,104 --> 01:14:15,174
I AM INFORMED BY THE ELECTION
2732
01:14:15,209 --> 01:14:18,281
DIVISION THAT 11 VOTES HAVE BEEN
2733
01:14:18,315 --> 01:14:20,525
CAST AND TABULATED AND ALL 11
2734
01:14:20,559 --> 01:14:22,216
VOTES HAVE BEEN CAST FOR
2735
01:14:22,250 --> 01:14:23,493
BARACK OBAMA.
2736
01:14:23,528 --> 01:14:27,497
[APPLAUSE]
2737
01:14:27,532 --> 01:14:28,636
WITH NEARLY THREE MILLION
2738
01:14:28,671 --> 01:14:30,742
VOTES CAST IN INDIANA,
2739
01:14:30,776 --> 01:14:32,502
BARACK OBAMA WOUND UP WITH A
2740
01:14:32,537 --> 01:14:35,125
ONE PERCENT LEAD, ENTITLING HIM
2741
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:36,195
TO ALL OF THE STATE'S
2742
01:14:36,230 --> 01:14:38,991
11 ELECTORAL VOTES.
2743
01:14:39,026 --> 01:14:40,510
WHILE IT WORKED OUT FOR HIM,
2744
01:14:40,545 --> 01:14:41,753
I WONDERED IF THIS ELECTORAL
2745
01:14:41,787 --> 01:14:43,237
COLLEGE APPROACH WAS THE BEST
2746
01:14:43,271 --> 01:14:44,618
WAY FOR THE WORLD'S GREATEST
2747
01:14:44,652 --> 01:14:46,551
DEMOCRACY TO CHOOSE ITS MOST
2748
01:14:46,585 --> 01:14:49,105
IMPORTANT ELECTED OFFICIAL.
2749
01:14:49,139 --> 01:14:50,244
Raskin: MOST AMERICANS LOVE
2750
01:14:50,278 --> 01:14:51,694
THE IDEA OF HAVING A POPULAR
2751
01:14:51,728 --> 01:14:53,696
VOTE FOR PRESIDENT AND THE
2752
01:14:53,730 --> 01:14:54,386
NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE
2753
01:14:54,420 --> 01:14:56,319
LEGISLATION IS THE SINGLE MOST
2754
01:14:56,353 --> 01:14:58,563
PROMISING AVENUE WE'VE GOT TO
2755
01:14:58,597 --> 01:15:02,636
BREAK FROM THE BIZARRENESS OF
2756
01:15:02,670 --> 01:15:03,740
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE BECAUSE IT
2757
01:15:03,775 --> 01:15:05,086
WILL MEAN THAT THE WINNER OF THE
2758
01:15:05,121 --> 01:15:06,467
NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE WILL GET
2759
01:15:06,502 --> 01:15:07,503
ALL OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
2760
01:15:07,537 --> 01:15:08,607
VOTES OR CERTAINLY ALL THE
2761
01:15:08,642 --> 01:15:10,057
ELECTORAL VOTES OF THE STATES
2762
01:15:10,091 --> 01:15:11,230
PARTICIPATING.
2763
01:15:11,265 --> 01:15:13,509
CURRENTLY, EVERY STATE EXCEPT
2764
01:15:13,543 --> 01:15:15,545
TWO AWARDS ALL ITS ELECTORAL
2765
01:15:15,580 --> 01:15:17,133
VOTES TO THE WINNER OF ITS
2766
01:15:17,167 --> 01:15:19,238
POPULAR VOTE, CREATING RED AND
2767
01:15:19,273 --> 01:15:20,654
BLUE STATES.
2768
01:15:20,688 --> 01:15:22,587
BUT WITH THE NEW LEGISLATION,
2769
01:15:22,621 --> 01:15:24,174
EACH STATE WILL AWARD ITS
2770
01:15:24,209 --> 01:15:25,728
ELECTORS TO THE WINNER OF THE
2771
01:15:25,762 --> 01:15:29,110
NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE.
2772
01:15:29,145 --> 01:15:31,112
THIS LEGISLATION WILL ONLY GO
2773
01:15:31,147 --> 01:15:32,562
INTO EFFECT WHEN THE TOTAL
2774
01:15:32,597 --> 01:15:34,081
NUMBER OF ELECTORS AVAILABLE
2775
01:15:34,115 --> 01:15:35,600
FROM PARTICIPATING STATES
2776
01:15:35,634 --> 01:15:38,534
REACHES 270: THE MAGIC NUMBER
2777
01:15:38,568 --> 01:15:41,467
NEEDED TO WIN THE PRESIDENCY.
2778
01:15:41,502 --> 01:15:43,331
WE ACTUALLY HAVE ENOUGH
2779
01:15:43,366 --> 01:15:44,747
ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES THAT
2780
01:15:44,781 --> 01:15:46,507
WE'RE HALFWAY THERE IN TERMS OF
2781
01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:48,544
THE 270 WE NEED IN ORDER TO GET
2782
01:15:48,578 --> 01:15:50,131
US TO NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE,
2783
01:15:50,166 --> 01:15:51,270
SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN
2784
01:15:51,305 --> 01:15:53,445
BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION.
2785
01:15:53,479 --> 01:15:55,205
AND I THINK THAT THE NATIONAL
2786
01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:56,448
POPULAR VOTE CAMPAIGN IS THE
2787
01:15:56,482 --> 01:15:59,485
BRIDGE TO GETTING US TO A DIRECT
2788
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:00,590
ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT, WHICH
2789
01:16:00,625 --> 01:16:02,005
YOU KNOW, WILL JUST HAVE US
2790
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:03,041
CATCHING UP WITH THE REST
2791
01:16:03,075 --> 01:16:05,215
OF THE WORLD.
2792
01:16:05,250 --> 01:16:06,562
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE BILLS IN
2793
01:16:06,596 --> 01:16:07,977
CONGRESS TO ABOLISH THE
2794
01:16:08,011 --> 01:16:09,392
ELECTORAL COLLEGE THAN ON
2795
01:16:09,426 --> 01:16:11,118
ANY OTHER ISSUE.
2796
01:16:11,152 --> 01:16:13,154
AND IT'S NOT A PARTISAN CAUSE.
2797
01:16:13,189 --> 01:16:14,984
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT RICHARD
2798
01:16:15,018 --> 01:16:16,157
NIXON SUPPORTED A
2799
01:16:16,192 --> 01:16:17,573
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
2800
01:16:17,607 --> 01:16:19,195
TO ABOLISH IT.
2801
01:16:19,229 --> 01:16:21,715
WHOEVER WINS THE POPULAR VOTE
2802
01:16:21,749 --> 01:16:23,164
SHOULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF
2803
01:16:23,199 --> 01:16:24,718
THE UNITED STATES.
2804
01:16:24,752 --> 01:16:26,167
TOM TANCREDO IS NO
2805
01:16:26,202 --> 01:16:27,583
PROGRESSIVE, REMEMBER.
2806
01:16:27,617 --> 01:16:28,687
HE'S THE GUY WHO WANTS US ALL
2807
01:16:28,722 --> 01:16:31,069
TO TAKE A TEST BEFORE WE VOTE.
2808
01:16:31,103 --> 01:16:32,104
WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING THE
2809
01:16:32,139 --> 01:16:33,243
NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE
2810
01:16:33,278 --> 01:16:34,210
INITIATIVE?
2811
01:16:34,244 --> 01:16:35,176
WELL, I'VE SEEN WHAT HAS
2812
01:16:35,211 --> 01:16:37,040
HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY AS A
2813
01:16:37,075 --> 01:16:39,595
RESULT OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM.
2814
01:16:39,629 --> 01:16:41,631
I WAS IN CONGRESS WHEN THIS
2815
01:16:41,666 --> 01:16:43,460
FELLOW PUSHED SOMETHING CALLED
2816
01:16:43,495 --> 01:16:45,635
THE MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG
2817
01:16:45,670 --> 01:16:47,292
PLAN AND IT WAS THE WORST PIECE
2818
01:16:47,326 --> 01:16:48,638
OF LEGISLATION I HAVE EVER HAD
2819
01:16:48,673 --> 01:16:50,260
TO SIT THROUGH AND IT WAS THE
2820
01:16:50,295 --> 01:16:51,986
MOST HEAVILY LOBBIED I HAVE
2821
01:16:52,021 --> 01:16:53,056
EVER SEEN--
2822
01:16:53,091 --> 01:16:54,195
AND WHAT DID IT HAVE TO DO
2823
01:16:54,230 --> 01:16:54,817
WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
2824
01:16:54,851 --> 01:16:55,749
YES, I'LL TELL YOU, IT WAS
2825
01:16:55,783 --> 01:16:57,578
ALL ABOUT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
2826
01:16:57,613 --> 01:16:59,166
ALL ABOUT GETTING HIM THE
2827
01:16:59,200 --> 01:17:01,030
ELECTORAL VOTES OF THE STATE
2828
01:17:01,064 --> 01:17:02,479
OF FLORIDA.
2829
01:17:02,514 --> 01:17:03,653
EVERYBODY KNEW WHY WE WERE
2830
01:17:03,688 --> 01:17:05,137
DOING THIS.
2831
01:17:05,172 --> 01:17:06,138
THAT'S WHY THEY COULDN'T
2832
01:17:06,173 --> 01:17:07,139
GET THE VOTES.
2833
01:17:07,174 --> 01:17:08,037
I MEAN, MOST REPUBLICANS WEREN'T
2834
01:17:08,071 --> 01:17:09,245
GOING TO GO ALONG WITH IT,
2835
01:17:09,279 --> 01:17:10,177
NO MATTER WHAT.
2836
01:17:10,211 --> 01:17:12,179
BUT EVENTUALLY, HE GOT ENOUGH
2837
01:17:12,213 --> 01:17:15,182
PEOPLE AND THEY PASSED IT.
2838
01:17:15,216 --> 01:17:16,252
WE DID ALL OF THAT,
2839
01:17:16,286 --> 01:17:17,667
A TRILLION-DOLLAR BILL, FOR THE
2840
01:17:17,702 --> 01:17:19,496
ELECTORAL VOTES OF THE STATE
2841
01:17:19,531 --> 01:17:21,015
OF FLORIDA.
2842
01:17:21,050 --> 01:17:22,258
EVEN THOUGH I FOUND LIBERALS
2843
01:17:22,292 --> 01:17:23,708
AND SOME CONSERVATIVES AGREEING
2844
01:17:23,742 --> 01:17:25,226
THAT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS
2845
01:17:25,261 --> 01:17:27,746
ANTIQUATED, OLD-FANGLED, I KNEW
2846
01:17:27,781 --> 01:17:29,679
ONE GROUP IN 2008 THAT WAS
2847
01:17:29,714 --> 01:17:30,991
HAPPY FOR THE WINNER OF
2848
01:17:31,025 --> 01:17:33,545
INDIANA'S 11 ELECTORAL VOTES.
2849
01:17:33,579 --> 01:17:34,408
WHO LOVES LIVING IN A
2850
01:17:34,442 --> 01:17:35,547
BLUE STATE?
2851
01:17:35,581 --> 01:17:38,999
[APPLAUSE]
2852
01:17:39,033 --> 01:17:39,689
Rocca: ALL RIGHT, BUT WAIT
2853
01:17:39,724 --> 01:17:41,070
A MINUTE-- WHAT DO YOU THINK
2854
01:17:41,104 --> 01:17:42,243
YOU ALL DID ON THE GROUND
2855
01:17:42,278 --> 01:17:43,451
THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE?
2856
01:17:43,486 --> 01:17:45,350
WHAT WAS WITHIN YOUR CONTROL?
2857
01:17:45,384 --> 01:17:46,696
I THINK THE ABSENTEES ARE OUR
2858
01:17:46,731 --> 01:17:48,698
MARGIN OF VICTORY FOR OUR
2859
01:17:48,733 --> 01:17:49,526
CANDIDATES.
2860
01:17:49,561 --> 01:17:51,632
OVER 55% OF THE WORKING
2861
01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:53,634
WORKFORCE IN JENNINGS COUNTY HAS
2862
01:17:53,669 --> 01:17:55,118
TO DRIVE OUTSIDE OF JENNINGS
2863
01:17:55,153 --> 01:17:56,741
COUNTY TO WORK AND THE AVERAGE
2864
01:17:56,775 --> 01:18:00,227
OF THOSE 55% WORK 10-HOUR
2865
01:18:00,261 --> 01:18:01,573
SHIFTS.
2866
01:18:01,607 --> 01:18:03,299
SO IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR
2867
01:18:03,333 --> 01:18:06,060
THEM TO VOTE AND WE, IN THE LAST
2868
01:18:06,095 --> 01:18:07,579
THREE ELECTIONS ANYWAY,
2869
01:18:07,613 --> 01:18:09,236
HAVE EDUCATED THE PUBLIC THAT
2870
01:18:09,270 --> 01:18:10,375
YES, YOU CAN VOTE ABSENTEE.
2871
01:18:10,409 --> 01:18:11,617
'CAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T
2872
01:18:11,652 --> 01:18:12,342
EVEN REALIZE YOU CAN VOTE
2873
01:18:12,377 --> 01:18:13,550
BY MAIL. JUST TO PLAY DEVIL'S
2874
01:18:13,585 --> 01:18:14,759
ADVOCATE, YOU DIDN'T TO HAVE A
2875
01:18:14,793 --> 01:18:15,656
PHOTO I.D. FOR THE
2876
01:18:15,691 --> 01:18:16,692
ABSENTEE BALLOT?
2877
01:18:16,726 --> 01:18:18,555
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE
2878
01:18:18,590 --> 01:18:20,040
REASONS FOR THE INCREASED
2879
01:18:20,074 --> 01:18:22,283
INTEREST IS THAT SO MANY OLDER
2880
01:18:22,318 --> 01:18:23,560
PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A DRIVER'S
2881
01:18:23,595 --> 01:18:25,286
LICENSE, THEY CAN'T FIND A BIRTH
2882
01:18:25,321 --> 01:18:27,047
CERTIFICATE, YOU KNOW,
2883
01:18:27,081 --> 01:18:28,186
THEY REALLY ARE LEFT WITH NO
2884
01:18:28,220 --> 01:18:29,566
OTHER CHOICE.
2885
01:18:29,601 --> 01:18:31,120
AND A LOT OF OUR ABSENTEES
2886
01:18:31,154 --> 01:18:32,224
ARE ELDERLY.
2887
01:18:32,259 --> 01:18:33,570
A LOT OF THEM ARE.
2888
01:18:33,605 --> 01:18:34,537
Marshall: AND THE REPUBLICANS
2889
01:18:34,571 --> 01:18:35,745
ALWAYS WANT TO SAY THERE'S
2890
01:18:35,780 --> 01:18:36,470
SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE
2891
01:18:36,504 --> 01:18:37,574
ABSENTEES BECAUSE THERE ARE JUST
2892
01:18:37,609 --> 01:18:38,990
SO MANY, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
2893
01:18:39,024 --> 01:18:40,336
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
2894
01:18:40,370 --> 01:18:41,440
VOTING ABSENTEE, IT'S A VOTE.
2895
01:18:41,475 --> 01:18:43,132
YOU ONLY GET TO VOTE ONCE.
2896
01:18:43,166 --> 01:18:44,581
YOU SCARED THEM.
2897
01:18:44,616 --> 01:18:45,617
I CAN SAY THAT FLAT OUT.
2898
01:18:45,651 --> 01:18:47,101
YOU HAVE SCARED THEM.
2899
01:18:47,136 --> 01:18:48,965
Woman: I AGREE. YEP.
2900
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:50,518
AFTER THE 2008 ELECTION,
2901
01:18:50,553 --> 01:18:52,175
MIKE MARSHALL CONTINUED WORKING
2902
01:18:52,210 --> 01:18:53,936
ON CAMPAIGNS AND GETTING OUT
2903
01:18:53,970 --> 01:18:55,972
THE VOTE IN INDIANA.
2904
01:18:56,007 --> 01:18:57,077
I MEAN, YOU'RE JUST AWESOME.
2905
01:18:57,111 --> 01:18:58,216
I MEAN, YOU ARE JUST A SOLDIER
2906
01:18:58,250 --> 01:18:59,217
THERE, YOU KNOW, WATCHING
2907
01:18:59,251 --> 01:19:00,011
THE VOTER FRAUD--
2908
01:19:00,045 --> 01:19:01,529
DEE DEE BENKIE BEGAN A STINT
2909
01:19:01,564 --> 01:19:03,186
AT FOX NEWS, APPEARING AS A
2910
01:19:03,221 --> 01:19:04,567
COMMENTATOR ON SEVERAL
2911
01:19:04,601 --> 01:19:06,017
PROGRAMS.
2912
01:19:06,051 --> 01:19:08,536
THEN, IN 2011, THE CONTROVERSY
2913
01:19:08,571 --> 01:19:09,917
OVER ABSENTEE BALLOT
2914
01:19:09,952 --> 01:19:13,645
APPLICATIONS RESURFACED.
2915
01:19:13,679 --> 01:19:14,301
Newscaster: INDIANA STATE
2916
01:19:14,335 --> 01:19:15,647
POLICE SAY THE INVESTIGATION
2917
01:19:15,681 --> 01:19:17,235
INTO FORMER CAMPAIGN WORKER MIKE
2918
01:19:17,269 --> 01:19:19,547
MARSHALL BEGAN MONTHS AGO AND
2919
01:19:19,582 --> 01:19:21,480
STEMMED FROM ALLEGED VOTER FRAUD
2920
01:19:21,515 --> 01:19:23,172
ISSUES REGARDING ABSENTEE BALLOT
2921
01:19:23,206 --> 01:19:25,036
APPLICATIONS.
2922
01:19:25,070 --> 01:19:26,520
ON FRIDAY, MARSHALL WAS INDICTED
2923
01:19:26,554 --> 01:19:28,039
BY A JENNINGS COUNTY GRAND JURY
2924
01:19:28,073 --> 01:19:30,213
WHO ISSUED 66 INDICTMENTS.
2925
01:19:30,248 --> 01:19:31,974
MAYOR GALLIGAN SAYS IT'S HIS
2926
01:19:32,008 --> 01:19:33,389
UNDERSTANDING THE INDICTMENT
2927
01:19:33,423 --> 01:19:35,667
STEMS FROM THREE ABSENTEE BALLOT
2928
01:19:35,701 --> 01:19:37,255
APPLICATIONS.
2929
01:19:37,289 --> 01:19:38,221
I THINK THIS IS POLITICAL
2930
01:19:38,256 --> 01:19:40,948
RETRIBUTION AND IT'S JUST THE
2931
01:19:40,983 --> 01:19:42,225
WAY POLITICS IS IN THIS
2932
01:19:42,260 --> 01:19:43,226
DAY AND TIME.
2933
01:19:43,261 --> 01:19:52,408
[♪...]
2934
01:19:52,442 --> 01:19:54,962
MIKE WAS INDICTED ON 45
2935
01:19:54,997 --> 01:19:57,344
COUNTS OF FORGERY, PERJURY
2936
01:19:57,378 --> 01:19:58,966
AND VOTER FRAUD.
2937
01:19:59,001 --> 01:20:00,243
HIS TRIAL IS SET TO BEGIN
2938
01:20:00,278 --> 01:20:02,487
LATE IN 2012.
2939
01:20:02,521 --> 01:20:04,661
IF CONVICTED, HE FACES LIFE
2940
01:20:04,696 --> 01:20:06,180
IN PRISON.
2941
01:20:06,215 --> 01:20:13,187
[♪...]
2942
01:20:13,222 --> 01:20:13,981
BECAUSE OF THE PENDING
2943
01:20:14,016 --> 01:20:15,603
LITIGATION, MIKE WAS UNABLE TO
2944
01:20:15,638 --> 01:20:17,088
SPEAK WITH ME.
2945
01:20:17,122 --> 01:20:18,434
BUT AS BOTH SIDES PREPARED
2946
01:20:18,468 --> 01:20:20,505
THEIR CASES, I TALKED WITH SOME
2947
01:20:20,539 --> 01:20:22,231
OF HIS COLLEAGUES.
2948
01:20:22,265 --> 01:20:24,026
Woman: I THINK PEOPLE DO GET
2949
01:20:24,060 --> 01:20:26,131
VICIOUS ABOUT VOTING--
2950
01:20:26,166 --> 01:20:27,408
PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T SEE THE
2951
01:20:27,443 --> 01:20:29,617
VICIOUS SIDE OF TALKING ABOUT
2952
01:20:29,652 --> 01:20:31,447
OTHER TOPICS, BUT YOU DO SEE A
2953
01:20:31,481 --> 01:20:35,071
WARLIKE ATTITUDE WHEN VOTER
2954
01:20:35,106 --> 01:20:36,935
RIGHTS AND VOTER SUPPRESSION
2955
01:20:36,970 --> 01:20:38,385
IS BEING DISCUSSED.
2956
01:20:38,419 --> 01:20:40,145
Man: SHE WAS SHOCKED;
2957
01:20:40,180 --> 01:20:41,284
I WAS NOT SHOCKED, BECAUSE...
2958
01:20:41,319 --> 01:20:42,320
YOU SAW IT COMING?
2959
01:20:42,354 --> 01:20:45,392
I KNEW-- IT'S LIKE I SAID,
2960
01:20:45,426 --> 01:20:47,566
HE'S SUCCESSFUL IN WHAT HE DOES,
2961
01:20:47,601 --> 01:20:49,223
HE WEARS A TARGET-- THEY'RE
2962
01:20:49,258 --> 01:20:50,984
GONNA TRY TO TAKE HIM DOWN.
2963
01:20:51,018 --> 01:20:52,468
AND THAT'S EXACTLY
2964
01:20:52,502 --> 01:20:53,607
WHAT HAPPENED.
2965
01:20:53,641 --> 01:20:55,091
SOMEONE ASKED THE QUESTION:
2966
01:20:55,126 --> 01:20:55,954
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY
2967
01:20:55,989 --> 01:20:56,955
INDICTMENTS? Rocca: RIGHT.
2968
01:20:56,990 --> 01:20:58,060
IT'S A LOT.
2969
01:20:58,094 --> 01:21:00,200
THEY SAID, "WE HAVE TO CHARGE
2970
01:21:00,234 --> 01:21:02,098
A LOT BECAUSE PROBABLY MOST OF
2971
01:21:02,133 --> 01:21:03,341
THEM WON'T STICK AND WE'RE
2972
01:21:03,375 --> 01:21:04,583
HOPING SOME OF THEM WILL
2973
01:21:04,618 --> 01:21:05,930
SLIDE BY."
2974
01:21:05,964 --> 01:21:07,276
THAT TELLS YOU RIGHT THERE,
2975
01:21:07,310 --> 01:21:08,656
"WE HAVE NOTHING."
2976
01:21:08,691 --> 01:21:09,347
IF THEY THINK THEY'RE GOING
2977
01:21:09,381 --> 01:21:10,935
TO GET AWAY WITH STEAMROLLING
2978
01:21:10,969 --> 01:21:12,177
PEOPLE, I WOULD SAY THAT ONE OF
2979
01:21:12,212 --> 01:21:13,247
THEIR FIRST LESSONS IS GONNA BE
2980
01:21:13,282 --> 01:21:14,973
MIKE MARSHALL AND HOW THIS
2981
01:21:15,008 --> 01:21:15,525
COMMUNITY STEPS UP
2982
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:17,320
TO BACK HIM UP.
2983
01:21:17,355 --> 01:21:18,425
AND THEY'RE GONNA FIND OUT THAT
2984
01:21:18,459 --> 01:21:19,426
THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY DOESN'T
2985
01:21:19,460 --> 01:21:20,703
THINK THE WAY THEY DO.
2986
01:21:20,737 --> 01:21:21,393
THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY THINKS
2987
01:21:21,428 --> 01:21:23,085
EVERYBODY GETS A RIGHT TO VOTE
2988
01:21:23,119 --> 01:21:24,327
AND THAT THAT MATTERS, BECAUSE
2989
01:21:24,362 --> 01:21:26,191
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
2990
01:21:26,226 --> 01:21:27,227
WHEN SOMEBODY WHO HELPS OTHER
2991
01:21:27,261 --> 01:21:29,022
PEOPLE VOTE, ON A VOLUNTEER
2992
01:21:29,056 --> 01:21:31,645
BASIS, IS BEING ATTACKED BY
2993
01:21:31,679 --> 01:21:33,716
THEIR POLITICAL OPPOSITION?
2994
01:21:33,750 --> 01:21:37,513
DEFINITELY RETRIBUTION.
2995
01:21:37,547 --> 01:21:39,411
Rocca: IF MIKE MARSHALL IS
2996
01:21:39,446 --> 01:21:40,619
SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR THE
2997
01:21:40,654 --> 01:21:42,380
REST OF HIS LIFE, HOW WOULD
2998
01:21:42,414 --> 01:21:43,346
YOU FEEL?
2999
01:21:43,381 --> 01:21:45,141
Benkie: TERRIBLE.
3000
01:21:45,176 --> 01:21:47,281
TERRIBLE.
3001
01:21:47,316 --> 01:21:49,111
IT'D BE TRAGIC.
3002
01:21:49,145 --> 01:21:50,284
I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
3003
01:21:50,319 --> 01:21:52,148
I'M EMPATHETIC TO FOLKS THAT,
3004
01:21:52,183 --> 01:21:53,494
YOU KNOW, MAKE MISTAKES.
3005
01:21:53,529 --> 01:21:55,324
AND I'M NOT SAYING MIKE DID.
3006
01:21:55,358 --> 01:21:57,326
I JUST FEEL BAD WHENEVER,
3007
01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,397
PERHAPS, LAWS ARE SO MURKY AND
3008
01:21:59,431 --> 01:22:01,502
THINGS ARE SO DIFFERENT THAT IT
3009
01:22:01,537 --> 01:22:03,159
CAN MAYBE GET MESSED UP,
3010
01:22:03,194 --> 01:22:04,298
WHETHER IT'S INTENTIONAL
3011
01:22:04,333 --> 01:22:05,437
OR UNINTENTIONAL.
3012
01:22:05,472 --> 01:22:06,956
THAT'S WHY I'M SO ADAMANT ABOUT
3013
01:22:06,991 --> 01:22:08,716
VOTER I.D. AND ABOUT ABSENTEE
3014
01:22:08,751 --> 01:22:11,305
BALLOTS BEING ACCURATE AND THAT
3015
01:22:11,340 --> 01:22:14,101
WE HAVE STANDARDIZED VOTER I.D.
3016
01:22:14,136 --> 01:22:16,138
LAWS AND THAT WE NEED TO
3017
01:22:16,172 --> 01:22:17,242
DEFINITELY GET OUR ACT TOGETHER
3018
01:22:17,277 --> 01:22:18,692
NATIONWIDE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE
3019
01:22:18,726 --> 01:22:20,176
THIS HODGEPODGE ALL OVER THE
3020
01:22:20,211 --> 01:22:21,971
PLACE-- IT'S TOO CONFUSING.
3021
01:22:22,006 --> 01:22:23,386
Browne-Dianis: INDIANA
3022
01:22:23,421 --> 01:22:25,285
STARTED THE BALL ROLLING
3023
01:22:25,319 --> 01:22:27,977
ON VOTER I.D. RESTRICTIONS.
3024
01:22:28,012 --> 01:22:29,082
THEY WERE ONE OF THE FIRST TO
3025
01:22:29,116 --> 01:22:31,118
PASS THE MOST RESTRICTIVE I.D.
3026
01:22:31,153 --> 01:22:34,156
LAWS AND NOW WE'RE SEEING IT
3027
01:22:34,190 --> 01:22:36,158
SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
3028
01:22:36,192 --> 01:22:38,470
THE PHRASE "WAR ON VOTING,"
3029
01:22:38,505 --> 01:22:40,990
DO YOU THINK THAT'S HYPERBOLIC
3030
01:22:41,025 --> 01:22:41,680
OR DO YOU THINK IT'S
3031
01:22:41,715 --> 01:22:43,579
APPROPRIATE?
3032
01:22:43,613 --> 01:22:44,718
I THINK "WAR ON VOTING" IS A
3033
01:22:44,752 --> 01:22:47,376
TOTALLY APPROPRIATE PHRASE FOR
3034
01:22:47,410 --> 01:22:49,999
RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I THINK THERE
3035
01:22:50,034 --> 01:22:52,381
IS A MOVE IN THIS COUNTRY TO
3036
01:22:52,415 --> 01:22:54,038
MAKE SURE THAT NOT EVERYBODY
3037
01:22:54,072 --> 01:22:56,040
GETS TO VOTE, AND...
3038
01:22:56,074 --> 01:22:57,386
THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE VOTE.
3039
01:22:57,420 --> 01:22:59,284
THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE VOTE.
3040
01:22:59,319 --> 01:23:00,630
AND THE SO-CALLED WRONG PEOPLE
3041
01:23:00,665 --> 01:23:04,082
DON'T GET TO VOTE.
3042
01:23:04,117 --> 01:23:06,084
IT IS TIME TO ASK, WHAT KIND
3043
01:23:06,119 --> 01:23:09,225
OF NATION DO WE WANT TO BE?
3044
01:23:09,260 --> 01:23:10,502
ARE WE WILLING TO ALLOW THIS
3045
01:23:10,537 --> 01:23:13,229
ERA, OUR ERA, TO BE REMEMBERED
3046
01:23:13,264 --> 01:23:15,024
AS THE AGE WHEN OUR NATION'S
3047
01:23:15,059 --> 01:23:17,199
PROUD TRADITION OF EXPANDING
3048
01:23:17,233 --> 01:23:19,511
THE FRANCHISE ENDED?
3049
01:23:19,546 --> 01:23:22,031
ENSURING THAT EVERY VETERAN,
3050
01:23:22,066 --> 01:23:23,136
EVERY SENIOR, EVERY COLLEGE
3051
01:23:23,170 --> 01:23:25,517
STUDENT, EVERY ELIGIBLE CITIZEN
3052
01:23:25,552 --> 01:23:27,071
HAS THE RIGHT TO VOTE
3053
01:23:27,105 --> 01:23:29,728
MUST BECOME OUR COMMON CAUSE.
3054
01:23:29,763 --> 01:23:32,041
AND FOR ALL AMERICANS,
3055
01:23:32,076 --> 01:23:33,353
PROTECTING THIS RIGHT,
3056
01:23:33,387 --> 01:23:35,631
ENSURING MEANINGFUL ACCESS AND
3057
01:23:35,665 --> 01:23:37,219
COMBATING DISCRIMINATION
3058
01:23:37,253 --> 01:23:38,634
MUST BE VIEWED NOT ONLY
3059
01:23:38,668 --> 01:23:40,981
AS A LEGAL ISSUE, BUT AS
3060
01:23:41,016 --> 01:23:43,570
A MORAL IMPERATIVE.
3061
01:23:43,604 --> 01:23:47,160
[♪...]
3062
01:23:47,194 --> 01:23:48,368
IT'S SAD TO THINK THAT IN
3063
01:23:48,402 --> 01:23:50,404
THIS GREAT DEMOCRACY, WE STILL
3064
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:52,234
FIND OURSELVES BATTLING
3065
01:23:52,268 --> 01:23:53,994
OVER VOTING.
3066
01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:55,478
DO WE REALLY NOT AGREE THAT ALL
3067
01:23:55,513 --> 01:23:57,377
LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS DESERVE
3068
01:23:57,411 --> 01:23:59,137
THE RIGHT TO VOTE?
3069
01:23:59,172 --> 01:24:00,069
THERE MUST BE SOME
3070
01:24:00,104 --> 01:24:02,209
COMMON GROUND.
3071
01:24:02,244 --> 01:24:04,211
...AMERICANS HATE BEING TOLD
3072
01:24:04,246 --> 01:24:05,074
WHAT TO DO.
3073
01:24:05,109 --> 01:24:06,351
SO WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY
3074
01:24:06,386 --> 01:24:07,732
DIFFERENT SETS OF RULES WITH
3075
01:24:07,766 --> 01:24:09,078
DIFFERENT REGISTRATION
3076
01:24:09,113 --> 01:24:10,666
DEADLINES, BALLOT DESIGNS,
3077
01:24:10,700 --> 01:24:12,254
POLLING HOURS, MACHINES WE VOTE
3078
01:24:12,288 --> 01:24:14,256
ON, I.D. REQUIREMENTS?
3079
01:24:14,290 --> 01:24:16,085
WHEN IT COMES TO CHOOSING A
3080
01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:17,466
PRESIDENT, SHOULD THE CANDIDATE
3081
01:24:17,500 --> 01:24:20,020
WHO GETS THE MOST VOTES WIN,
3082
01:24:20,055 --> 01:24:21,987
AS IN EVERY OTHER ELECTION?
3083
01:24:22,022 --> 01:24:23,334
SHOULD THE CONSTITUTION BE
3084
01:24:23,368 --> 01:24:24,645
AMENDED TO INCLUDE A RIGHT
3085
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:25,646
TO VOTE?
3086
01:24:25,681 --> 01:24:27,441
OH, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, DID MY
3087
01:24:27,476 --> 01:24:28,960
CLASSROOM DEMONSTRATION
3088
01:24:28,994 --> 01:24:31,273
PERMANENTLY SCAR THOSE CHILDREN?
3089
01:24:31,307 --> 01:24:35,173
[CHILDREN LAUGHING, YELLING]
3090
01:24:35,208 --> 01:24:37,141
WELL, I AM SURE ABOUT ONE THING:
3091
01:24:37,175 --> 01:24:39,039
VOTING MATTERS.
3092
01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:40,040
SO IF YOU THINK OUR ELECTORAL
3093
01:24:40,075 --> 01:24:41,145
SYSTEM IS BROKEN, THAT IT'S
3094
01:24:41,179 --> 01:24:43,008
OVERLY COMPLICATED, PRONE TO
3095
01:24:43,043 --> 01:24:44,389
MELTDOWNS, DON'T LOOK FOR A
3096
01:24:44,424 --> 01:24:45,735
LITTLE BLUE PILL TO SOLVE
3097
01:24:45,770 --> 01:24:47,047
THE PROBLEM.
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01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:48,290
THE KEY TO FIXING ELECTORAL
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01:24:48,324 --> 01:24:51,396
DYSFUNCTION... IS VOTING.
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01:24:51,431 --> 01:24:52,984
I LOVE IT WHEN A DOCUMENTARY
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01:24:53,018 --> 01:24:56,194
ENDS ON A NOTE OF IRONY.
3102
01:24:56,229 --> 01:24:58,058
Keb' Mo': ♪ FROM SEA
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01:24:58,093 --> 01:25:07,550
TO SHINING, SHINING SEA. ♪
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01:25:07,585 --> 01:25:12,555
[MUSIC ENDS]
3105
01:25:12,590 --> 01:25:16,559
[NEW SONG BEGINS]
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01:25:25,603 --> 01:25:31,505
[♪...]
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01:25:31,540 --> 01:25:33,128
Stacia Fernandez:♪ ELECTORAL
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01:25:33,162 --> 01:25:37,201
DYSFUNCTION ♪
3109
01:25:37,235 --> 01:25:38,374
♪ WHERE'S THE PILL
3110
01:25:38,409 --> 01:25:42,999
FOR THIS AFFLICTION? ♪
3111
01:25:43,034 --> 01:25:48,350
♪ ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION
3112
01:25:48,384 --> 01:25:54,597
♪ WHERE'S THE NEXT ERUPTION?
3113
01:25:54,632 --> 01:25:57,013
♪ WHO'S THE BOSS, MR. TWEED?
3114
01:25:57,048 --> 01:25:58,049
♪ STUFFING THOSE BALLOTS
3115
01:25:58,083 --> 01:25:59,119
IN THAT BOX ♪
3116
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:00,500
♪ YOUR GANG MADE NEW YORK CITY
3117
01:26:00,534 --> 01:26:01,432
BLEED,
3118
01:26:01,466 --> 01:26:02,433
STRUTTIN' LIKE
3119
01:26:02,467 --> 01:26:07,576
A FLOCK OF PEACOCKS ♪
3120
01:26:07,610 --> 01:26:12,684
♪ ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION
3121
01:26:12,719 --> 01:26:14,030
♪ WHERE'S THE PILL
3122
01:26:14,065 --> 01:26:18,725
FOR THIS AFFLICTION? ♪
3123
01:26:18,759 --> 01:26:24,006
♪ ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION
3124
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:30,219
♪ WHERE'S THE NEXT ERUPTION?
3125
01:26:30,254 --> 01:26:31,462
♪ KATHERINE HARRIS,
3126
01:26:31,496 --> 01:26:32,566
QUEEN OF THE CHADS,
3127
01:26:32,601 --> 01:26:34,534
YOU PURGED THOSE VOTER ROLLS ♪
3128
01:26:34,568 --> 01:26:37,053
♪ YOU AND THOSE SUPREME LADS
3129
01:26:37,088 --> 01:26:38,538
CRUSHED AL GORE'S RISE
3130
01:26:38,572 --> 01:26:43,577
AT THE POLLS ♪
3131
01:26:43,612 --> 01:26:53,104
[♪...]
3132
01:26:53,138 --> 01:26:58,558
♪ ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION
3133
01:26:58,592 --> 01:26:59,559
♪ WHERE'S THE PILL
3134
01:26:59,593 --> 01:27:03,356
FOR THIS AFFLICTION? ♪
3135
01:27:03,390 --> 01:27:07,670
♪ WE NEED AN INJECTION
3136
01:27:07,705 --> 01:27:12,192
TO CURE THIS INFECTION ♪
3137
01:27:12,227 --> 01:27:17,404
♪ ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION!
3138
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:27,414
[♪...]
3139
01:27:27,449 --> 01:27:30,072
THAT'S NOT FAIR AT ALL!
3140
01:27:30,106 --> 01:27:31,936
SHH!
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