2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a
Them, the only thing that i heard you say that im disgraceful that this president is a disgrace but please remember we are going to leave this program to take your life to a discussion on elections and civic engagement. This is live coverage on cspan2. Before i get to anything else, i want to tell everyone out there that you can submit your questions and comments two ways, one is through my email and it is events at brookings. Edu, were in edu or on twitter with the universal voting. When it comes to thanks, above all all of you who have joined this call, we are deeply grateful and heartened by the number of people who wanted to join this conversation on the new report with every voice the urgency of universal civic duty voting. I want to thank all members of our working group, one of the best groups i have ever worked both. And i have been with a lot of groups over the years, its an external group of people who contributed so much to this, thanks to the governor Study Program at brook
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaud Center Fisher i are dealing with votes going on but i called the hearing to order and good afternoon. I would like to thank Ranking Member fisher and her colleagues for joining us. Our witnesses who i will introduce shortly for secr of state issac cramer executive carolina support of Voter Registrations and elections Jimmy Nilsson present director of the Naacp Legal Defense Fund and well hear from her other witnesses because senator fisher will be introducing them including alabama secretary of state wes allen and brian kruse commissioner for the depth county election commission. More americans than ever have cast a ballot in recent elections in large part because of the work of state and local officials in these elections have run smoothly and top Security Officials in both republican and democratic administrations alike have elections including last weeks primaryec elections. 18 states have a ready h
calls for vengeance against more innocent victims are not the answer and acts of retaliatory violence are never justified. i ll make that clear throughout my time in israel on the west bank with everyone i meet. and steve kornacki will join us to discuss our new poll highlighting national concerns over president biden and former president trump s handling of classified materials. even though they had very different circumstances as mr. trump makes a low energy return to the campaign trial. a sixth police officer has been relieved from duty. they re declining to say if hees on paid or unpaid leave, when the decision was put into effect. the police chief has disbanded the scorpian unit in respond to demand from the civil rights community. more charges could be coming for those involved and other who is responded to the scene and did not intervene. joining me now, elson barber in memphis. what can you tell us about the sixth officer, about the growing concerns about why nich
classic hershey s bar which just chocolate or a heath bar which is toffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favoritee is a payday bar.ay i don t even know what that is. it s basically like peanuts and goo. i don t know. but a picnic bar, on the other hand, is not one of those minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar.ma it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar ane a milky way and a crackle bar, it s gotba like carmel and peans and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of a other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they reth listed for 14 ruble s each, which is almost nothing. 14 r