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On today's show: In the final stretch before Tuesday's crucial midterm elections, voters are fighting to overcome suppression. A preview of potential nightmare scenarios on Election Day that are occurring in the last days of early voting:\xa0 internet outages across Wisconsin caused problems for voters trying to get information, and Tennessee voters in one county were forced to vote on provisional ballots during a failure of electronic pollbooks. In North Dakota, a federal judge denied an emergency motion to protect Native Americans from being disenfranchised by the state GOP'S new voter ID restrictions. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is also overseeing his own race for governor against Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, has lost again in court, and now must allow voters wrongly flagged by the state as non-citizens to vote on a regular, non-provisional ballot. Voting rights author and Mother Jones journalist ARI BERMAN discusses the extraordinary tsunami of voter suppression playing out across the country in several GOP-controlled states, along with a potential antidote that could have a big impact on the 2020 presidential election:\xa0 selecting Secretaries of State who will expand the right to vote rather than restrict it. Of course, voters will have to overcome voting roll purges and other suppression methods at the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 6 in order to see those important changes. He also details a number of initiatives on the ballot in several states that could dramatically help to expand the electorate, make registration easier, and end some partisan gerrymanders. Also today:\xa0 third-party candidates pull out of two very tight U.S. Senate races in Arizona and Montana...