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Meet svia webx to try to see if they can come up with a compromise legislation that would make it harder to challenge the electoral congress results. thats what happened on january 6. you had questions about what the vice presidents role was going to be and there is an effort right now and this is really the goal of democrats to make it much harder to challenge the results. right now it just takes a house member and a senator and that was really a cause for concern on january 6 and questions whe...

Accountable. and those -- and that rhetoric, also, results in a lack of faith in our democracy. >> so, laura, when you consider the graphic death threats this man in texas made against election workers in georgia, what are we talking about in terms of punishment? will he face a punishment that sends a message to others that this is a thing you cannot do? a redline you cannot cross? >> well, if they are able to prove their case we are talking up to five years in prison and we are not talking abou...

Tiny, inefficient buildings that dont inadeadequately support t election needs and she cant on. >> if i had the structures, yes. but the structures are not there. that is the reality of lincoln county. >> reporter: like election departments across the country, shes struggling to find poll workers to staff multiple locations. >> they left me a mess. >> reporter: and claims the toxic nature of american politics has prevented churches and even fire departments from stepping up to offer larger space...

Against that. >> all right. thats some stuff. ari, whats your sense of it. what can and should be done right now? >> i think steve laid it out very well. ill emphasize one of his points which is a mass mobilization for democracy at the state and local level. we saw so many people get involved in 2020 to become poll workers, to become election officials and to have people have their votes counted and some of that is still going on and a lot of people went back to their lives and the problem is th...

Push back on that. of course as mcconnell, minority leader mcconnell, the republican leader here in the senate, embraced reforming the electoral count act, theres a group of republicans and democrats working on bipartisan legislation as senator susan collins who is leading the charge, hiring more poll workers, and preventing that election officials wont be faced with intimidation as they do their work in the states and other measures that theyre working to do, but democrats pushing back on that,...

Untrue. and its also because the former president has repeatedly attacked elections officials, right? directly. putting it and blaling it on individuals. philadelphia and else where suggesting that you, as individuals, stole the election. here he is. >> in philadelphia and various areas around philadelphia, they cheat and they cheat like crazy. poll workers in michigan were duplicating ballots. the rinos on the maricopa county board dec-- they are horrible. >> thats what is coming from the top. ...

Its all pretty fascistic, is it not? we should use the "f" word. >> yeah, it is scary. to stand in that crowd and hear them cheer for locking up poll workers and election officials from 2020, it was really jarring. and i cover this stuff for a living and it still was pretty unnerving to me. what do we make of that? well, kari lake is not the only one. there are so many republican candidates running this year, including mark finchem, who you mentioned, who are running, who are saying the exact sa...

Whether democrats and republicans broadly are receptive to their proposals. among the ideas right now that are floating around is really looking at updating this law, which was established in 1887, to really clarify that the vice presidents role in overseeing the certification of election results in congress is ministerial. as we all know former president donald trump tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn the election results, which he declined to do so and what that update to ...

Been cited as a reason why americans should be able to own every form of firearm in existence. but, michigan republicans have now dropped the hunting rights facade and are saying out loud that the reason to own guns is to shoot and kill people. specifically, shoot and kill people who they politically disagree with. the leader of the republican party, donald trump has endorsed mike dimmer, a michigan state candidate who says that republicans have to be prepared to shoot and kill voters and poll w...

Fairly. >> thats right, ali, and people are already experiencing this kind of voter suppression. a lot of laws are going into effect. in texas, we are seeing mail ballot rejections in large urban counties increase by 700%. nearly half of all mail nearly ballots being rejected already just in a march primary and that could lead to tens of thousands of votes being thrown out in 2022 and also whats happening is people arent going to have access to the ballot restricted and the question is whether v...