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Professional technocratic election worker are poll worker in america right, now when these are the animated politics or the american right. ill tell you. theres a really interesting and i dare say heartening story we have up next, about a new just announced today, major effort in big ticket marquee named effort, that is a bipartisan effort. to stand up for elections workers and poll workers who are getting these kinds of threats. line forsman has been next zero help. even with the justice depart...

Work poll workers are critical to each of those steps. she heard from poll workers and a current election official who is a former poll worker about the threats that they are facing. but, also, the progress that is being made across the country and their own personal experiences. >> "the new york times" explained today in a story about how the gop-proposed restrictions will impact election workers. they said this. both bills would ban 24-hour voting and drive-through voting, prohibit election of...

Was hard about it and it was easy in the sense that this was the only option we had that were gonna stop greg abbott and other republicans for making it harder for texans to vote, for making it harder for our constituents to exercise their democratic right and that was the easy part of the decision and thats why youre seeing this extraordinary action of more than 50 courageous texas house democrats who are now in washington d.c. eight days now and were just getting started. >> representative gon...

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 ...

Workers access to the ballots. okay. prohibits them from being removed for breaking the law. increases penalties for any election worker who intentionally or knowingly accepts a poll worker. these are not like the bills you named originally about giving more access to this, more access to that. its making it easier to check, easier to chill, and easier to question the count. those are not expansive, representative, are they? >> could i address those? >> please. last word to you. >> yes, sir. chr...

We want people deciding them. but even the other things that are in this bill -- there is obviously an eye toward making it harder. bills that would give poll workers access to the ballots. okay. prohibits them from being removed for breaking the law. increases penalties for any election worker who intentionally or knowingly accepts a poll worker. these are not like the bills you named originally about giving more access to this, more access to that. its making it easier to check, easier to chil...

Them got off with basically a slap on the wrist for their crimes. the dude in forty fort pennsylvania prosecutors dropped the most serious charges against him. the guy who voted for his dozens years dead mother swearing she was alive, he got five years probation. the local republican elected official in ohio who voted for his dead father, he got jail time. he got three days in jail and a $500 fine. and it is worth keeping that context in mind when you also remember the case of crystal mason. we ...

Law." earlier on in the show, we asked all of you, why are you awake? beverly writes, its my official last day of school. bringing a close to more than a year of a new way to teach. one viewer tweet, theyre up a early because of democracy. im an nyc early voting poll worker and polls open early. >> and quentin tweeted, its the maryland baseball playoffs and im up making breakfast for champions. that looks delicious. another viewer tweeted, im up way too early, because my brain wants to get this ...

Of temporary workers who regularly staff polling sites will return for any future votes. because they want to avoid harassment and threats. and potentially violence. one pulling manager telling a hear racing story from the night of the january senate runoff in georgia. this is amazing. after the polls close, she was quote driving to deliver ballots to an elections office in barr del county. a prominently white republican district in northwestern georgia. the polling manager, who was black, was t...

Harassment and threats. and potentially, violence. one polling manager, telling a hair-raising story from the night of the january senate runoff in georgia. this is amazing. after the polls closed, she was quote driving to deliver ballots to an elections office in bardo county. the polling manager, who is black, was traveling with her daughter. also, a poll worker hired temporarily for the election. on a dark, rural, two-lane road, they noticed they were being followed by an suv. the manager cal...