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Now, were giving one free pass to a partisan poll watcher untrained who violates the law. the presiding judge, who is allegedly to violate the law dont get a warning. they get immediate criminal sanctions. were not seeing parity in the way that this bill is being, or the provisions of the bill are being carried out. so wed like to see that. i mean if youre going to start giving free passes, then the presiding judge and the election workers, they deserve free passes. >> all right. texas represent...

Poll watcher can become -- provision in the texas law which is not a high threshold so just intimidation is not efficient so to the elections judge must observe the actual behavior. and so a voter alone reporting this behavior has suspicions rise that threshold and so the poll worker most of already given that one warning. moreover, it adds a new violation for poor workers to refuse to allow a portrait to be there even if they know that that poll worker, poll watcher has been problematic in the ...

I feel like im watching a "rocky" movie and its the point where rocky might take a comeback. they took their ball and went home. they say, youre not going to play fair, were going to go home. theyre trying to inspire the senate to do something. the senate needs to wake up. democrats delivered a majority across the board. you know how many phone calls i made? i was a poll watcher. i volunteered. stacey abrams delivered georgia. i mean, weve given them all of that and still mitch mcconnell is some...

Election judge. and its the election judge who could be charged with a crime and not a proud boy. why do -- >> just to be clear, youre saying, hypothetically, if a proud boy was a partisan poll watcher, that would have just been a warning and the poll watcher wouldnt have been facing any criminal repe repercussions? thats what youre saying? >> i think we need to identify what a partisan poll watcher looks like. and a lot of them look like the folks that stormed the u.s. capitol on january oft6th...

Just sit in a chair and be steamrolled by republicans to satisfy some partisan agenda. i want to be part of the solution. it takes two to tango. when theyre ready to talk, were always ready to talk. >> what do you say to those who say, we have made concessions? they got rid of early voting on sundays and courts ability to overturn elections would allegations of fraud. >> i say thanks to networks like yours, who shined a bright light on that injustice. they didnt fix it because they wanted to, bu...

Court for the laugh-out-loud trump lawsuit they brought last november, demanding that michigan should be forced to give their electoral votes to donald trump even though biden won the michigan election. the judge dismissed the actual lawsuit months ago, but now that same judge is deciding whether there ought to be consequences for these lawyers for using her courtroom to push lies and conspiracy theories with only made-up evidence to base it all on. and i say its made-up evidence because of the ...

>> reporter: don, texas republicans have backed away from a view voting measures but not many. and these are still on the table. as for voting places, no drive-through voting or dropboxes would be permitted if this legislation is finalized. republicans tried to stop drive-through voting during the 2020 election with a real eye on largely democratic houston where the sites were very popular. the court said no. but this new legislation says enough, republicans want people voting only inside solid ...

Because of the judges ascertainment. the judge called the pieces of evidence they presented for this lawsuit, quote, fantastical and, quote, obviously questionable if not false on their face. in one of the affidavits they tried to submit as part of this case, a poll watcher said he felt the way ballots were being handled was, quote, perplexing. in the hearing on monday, the judge asks the potted plant lawyer, quote, and you think being perplexed by an observation is sufficient enough to get into...

From a few voting measures but not many, and these are still on the table. as for voting places, no drive-through voting or drop boxes would be permitted if this legislation is finalized. republicans tried to stop drive-through voting during the 2020 election with a real eye on largely democratic houston where the sites were very popular. the court said no, but this new legislation says enough republicans want people voting only inside solid buildings. so no stand-alone tents or moveable structu...

>> reporter: boris, theyre trying to achieve what they couldnt achieve during the regular session because democrats did that dramatic walk-out in the final hours of the regular session. and denied quorum thus preventing them from passing any kind of election legislation that would add new restrictions. that is essentially why the governor said he was calling this special session, that should be getting underway any moment now. the house republicans dropped a bill last night. it is hb-3, that has...