president obama said that republicans are trying to rig the elections coming forward by caring so much about ballot security and ballot integrity and a lot of republicans, tens of millions of republicans say that the rigging of the election happened in 2016 when in 2020 when laws were changed about how how to control and protect our elections or sometimes, you know, the courts just intervened or rogue election officials changed the processes by which we make sure that ballots are correct and should be counted and this was done through changing laws, through courts changing laws and though officials but also by big-tech companies coming in and actually funding and privatizing our election process and so people have legitimate reason to be concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election. and this is something that people have done going back, you know, since before we even had a country. we cared about election integrity. there s always the fight how to make sure everyone who is v
to livestream their counting processes for the sake of transparency. there is a lot of misinformation. a lot of democrats not dealing with facts. harris: i m glad you started there. i will ask my team to pop it on the wall. we had some of that already. early voting critics say makes it difficult to vote early. it required early voting for nine hours per day and when it comes to mail-in voting that is still allowed. there are just new restrictions on unsolicited applications. the fact versus the fiction here. saying the bill does little to address ballot security and it actually addresses cybersecurity verification and transparency issues. roger, where are democrats going to gain ground on this by walking away? it is a bare knuckles legislative technique, right? you deny them a quorum and it s
that s something we have seen across the country. it also makes, again, those partisan poll workers empowered, this is something that president joe biden hit on saying it reminded him of other state legislation that s restricting vo voting rights. the republican sponsors of the bill say this is about ballot security and ensuring uniformity. the clock is ticking, they have to get something done by midnight on sunday. boris, christi, the expectation is governor abbott if approved will sign this into law. dianne gallagher, thank you, we have breaking news we want to fill you in on right now. police are at the scene of an apparent mass shooting in northwest miami-dade county florida. miami-dade police say two people are dead and 20 to 25 people are hurting after
un-american. the republican sponsors of the bill say that this is simply about ballot security and ens ensuring uniformity. the clock is ticking, they have to get something done by midnight on sunday. boris, christi, the expectation is that governor abbott, if it is approved, will sign this into law. diane, thank you so much. let s talk about what we are all seeing on this memorial day weekend, the clearer sign yet that the u.s. is turning a corner on covid. people are taking advantage of relaxed restrictions you may be seeing where you are in the country. remember last year, we were cringing watching huge crowds not social distancing, not wearing masks and in the surge of covid cases that followed, this year, things are different, the first big holiday since the cdc said fully vaccinated people can drop masks and forget social distancing without fear of getting themselves and other sick. more than 134 million people make up that vaccinated group, and maskless crowds are becoming
provisions. one is the pole watchers and their ability to record when they are in polling places. some say this will intimidate voters as they go into the ballot box. others say this is simply a matter of ballot security. the other issue is the polling locations themselves, that one provision that has been talked about possibly being in this bill has to do with the locations of where they are and spreading them out across the state of texas. the advocates for voting has to say that this could disadvantage people in urban, black and brown communities that may have to go farther to get to their polling place. looking more broadly, as you mentioned, you mentioned 14 states have enacted 22 new laws. this also comes as 48 states have almost 400 bills related to voting on the books right now across the country. so certainly it s not just texas. governor abbott for his part says he is going to sign this bill regardless of what s in it. people are saying by texas standards, this has been the