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Voting rights, we dont have a democracy. >> thats right. it is the foundation -- voting rights are the foundation of our democracy. arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, every republican senator, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, voted to block legislation to protect voters and elections. so hows that going? well, today a texas man has been charged with threatening to kill an elections official in georgia, and there are calls for the justice departm...

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Money or super bowl tickets i would say and this is all because its popular amongst the arizona republican with the so-called audit to do election legislation. most are keen on passing new laws and said when they orchestrating this review to do it to write new legislation. >> theres a particular focus on the security features on the ballots. these tactics by cyber ninjas might have inspired the calls. how realistic to put this security on voter ballots? >> it is really expensive. if it is possib...

Investigations, including a number of them that includes the selection conspiracy theorist, this company appears to be the company thats going to be awarded this contract in the county, weve seen this in a number of other states and weve seen people all over the country and elected officials such as yourself in those states lament that these audits are unscientific, theyre not in keeping with best practices, theyre designed to essentially make people have doubts about the election, that they sho...

People trust these voting machines, i grew up in a world where you had an audit every year. you add an audit for businesses, you publish it so everyone can see it. now youngkin did say that he was for a fair and free election. one of trumps former terrorist advisers sebastian gorka and make nice. >> what can you do to reassure trump supporters that that is not who you are. >> well, the president knows i am a virginia first governor candidate. on the stand up for virginia. >> youre listening to g...

Elections. just listen to -- clearly flustered, at her witsend, trying to plead with disillusion georgia voters and make a devotees not to abandon participatory democracy altogether. >> the machines are switching the votes and we go in there and crazy numbers and they shouldve won but they still -- >> we have to -- we didnt see that in the audit. so we just have to -- that evidence i have not seen. we will wait and see on that. >> ever gonna spend money on work when its already decided? >> its n...

Person. >> within the walls of marana aerospace, nick was tougher than an irs audit and every bit as unforgiving. but at the same time, he wasnt devious or sneaky. nick morelos would stab you in the front. >> he didnt know how to approach people and just have a conversation about, hey, maybe you should do it this way rather than this way. >> it was, youre doing it wrong. start doing it right. >> and if you dont do it this way, go home. >> john, a lieutenant colonel in the army, worked at the sam...

Like this? separate and apart from the type of investigation your office is doing into what kind of expenditure this is? >> for us, every dollar in new mexico is important to the taxpayers. weve got to make sure that there is not any waste, fraud or abuse. we have elected officials who are abusing power potentially, we hold them accountable with these investigations and in our foundings. weve had experience in otero county where the county commissioner was overreaching. we were doing an investig...

Went for joe biden by a pretty good margin. by about 11 points, but in otero county, trump carried a terrell county by our nearly 2 to 1 margin, won by more than 25 points there. apparently that 25 point margin was not a big enough margin for trump -- in otero county. earlier this month the commissioners their decided they would authorize and after the fact audit of the countys 2020 election results. this is the same kind of thing the republicans of done in arizona, wisconsin, pennsylvania, i sh...

For trump fans in otero county. earlier this month the commissioners their decided they would authorize and after the fact audit of the countys 2020 election results. this is the same kind of thing the republicans of done in arizona, wisconsin, pennsylvania, i should note that one of the county commissioners who voted for the audit has himself been indicted for breaching the capitol on january 6th and all three otero county commissions shows a company to run this audit that is led by an election...