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KEMP: Watching the polls is an honest, thoughtful, democratic -- small -- idea.
COLMES: Small d. But you...
KEMP: So we're not trying to keep people from voting.
COLMES: Well, in Arkansas, poll watchers asked voters to produce I.D. or to have their photo taken,which is illegal, mostly in African-American districts. The Jefferson County Courthouse. It's wrong. We see a pattern here.
KEMP: I can't defend the indefensible.
COLMES: I know.
KEMP: Let's wait and fight out what happens tomorrow.
COLMES: I put this -- it seems like there's a pattern here, Mr. Kemp.
KEMP: Where?
COLMES: Arkansas. You have -- what I just showed you in Baltimore. You have...
KEMP: Look, I have no answer because I don't know what's happening.
Then during the interview with Ed Meese, here is what was said;
COLMES: Secretary Meese, it's Alan. Welcome to the program. We talked earlier about some of the charges that I made against Republicans.
And let me put one of them on the board right now and show it to our viewers and get your response from a legal standpoint."Trey Ashcraft, chairman of the Jefferson County Election Commission, said it was obvious the Republicans' actions," this is in Arkansas,"were targeting African-Americans. Ashcraft said he was disappointed in the Republican 'Gestapo' tactics.
They're trying to intimidate and prevent voters from participating in the Democratic process." "The registered voters feel insecure and the photos,"they were asking for photos of these people, "inexcusable. The Republicans know they can't win, so they're trying to steal this election. This is politics at its worst.
They're breaking the law...it's disgusting." Asking for photographs, two forms of ID against the law in Arkansas. In Jefferson County courthouse, largely African-American, what should be done about that, Mr. Secretary -- Mr. Attorney General?
MEESE: Well, I think the first thing to do is find out if it's true. I don't know anything about this election official, but he sounds like a Democrat to me.
COLMES: It's an elected official, non partisan?
MEESE: Well, but he probably is a registered Republican or a registered Democrat.
And I would suspect the latter because Alan as you know, it's usually the Democrats that make these unfounded charges. But...
COLMES: Oh, come on. Let's not be so partisan about that. You know...
MEESE: Oh, no.
COLMES: ...the Republicans would never do that, right? Only Democrats?
MEESE: Well, I would hope the Republicans wouldn't,but we know the Democrats stole the elections in St. Louis last time. They're notorious in Chicago and other places.
COLMES: Mr. Attorney General, as a former attorney general of the United States who was an attorney general of all of the people,how can you be so partisan and say that only one party does it? Aren't there irregularities on both sides? And don't both parties manipulate to play this game?
MEESE: Well, I think there are probably mistakes and errors and actual violations on both sides.
It just it seems to me that most of them that we know about that have been proven have, in fact, been Democrats.
But if there is somebody who is deliberately trying to keep a person from voting and doing that illegally, I think that's wrong.
On the other hand, the Democrats are trying to claim that legitimate ballot security measures such as requiring a single identification of people, and that sort of thing,is somehow interfering with people's right to vote. And that just isn't true.
COLMES: I'm talking about staying within the law.
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