In the 2016 election, the Washington Post found only four document cases of voter fraud out of 135 million votes cast.

It was 0.00002% of total votes.

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Now it's time to talk about voting rights where we stand now.

For that we turn to Ari Burman, he's a senior contributing writer for the Nation magazine

and a fellow at the Nation Institute.

His award-winning book Give Us the Ballot, the modern struggle for voting rights in America,

is out now in paperback.

Ari Burman, welcome back.

Thank you.

With everything going on in Trump land, sometimes it's hard to focus on the fundamental issues

and voting rights, certainly fundamental.

We want to talk about where we stand with voting rights at this point,

where the battles are, what challenges we face, how we can prepare for the 2018 midterm elections

the Democrats need to win.

I think it's 24 seats in order to retake control of the House.

That's the plan, but in order to do that, Democrats have to be able to vote.

We know the Republican strategy for a while now has been vote suppression, democratic victories,

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