The machine itself is kind of bizarre looking and frankly does not look all that simple,

but in order to sell it, they compare it to paper ballots.

And it's just voter after voter.

And I'm watching this thing and thinking,

don't lady, it doesn't count.

That just sounds an awful lot like voting in America today.

Good try sir, but this ballot will be thrown out.

For the first time in a presidential election, nine more states are enforcing new laws requiring

eligible voters to present a government issued photo ID at the polls.

The statistics point out that there have been few instances of voter fraud in the US and

that in Texas where the state once blocked African-Americans and Hispanics from voting,

it's more important to encourage voter participants.

As we've already seen in the primary season, the right of the black man and woman to vote.

It's still not a game.

Laws across the US are being passed to make it harder, not easier to vote.

This is the only advanced democracy on earth that goes out of its way to make it difficult

for people to vote.

I was at a few BLM protests and at these protests, I get really curious and I ask people,

you know, you're really upset, are you going to vote?

This is a Nizita Lijavardi.

I am a lawyer and also a political scientist.

I teach at Michigan State University.

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