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Your songs will bring you back. ♪ youve got to get yourself together ♪ ♪ youve got stuck in a moment ♪ im not ready. just sing. well, for some people, the results of the 2020 election are still in dispute. that election delusion climaxed at the beginning of this year with the attack on the capitol, but it didnt end there. red states are conducting fake ballot audits, and pushing the big lie in ways that leave lawmakers and poll workers vulnerable to threats and harassment. lets start i...

Just remember, you take it down to the microlevel. there are volunteer poll workers, practically volunteer, working every single poll. and every single poll have people that are just as honest as you and i working that poll. no election is perfect, but there is not evidence of intentional malfeasance. no evidence that the election in 2020 wasnt accurate. when benjamin franklin came out of the convention and our constitution was created, he was asked what kind of a government do we have. and he s...

Should ever play that game. we have a great system here, and no one should falsely accuse election officials of cheating. they say but we dont have confidence in milwaukee, and we dont have confidence in madison. just remember, you take it down to the micro level, there are volunteer poll workers practically volunteer, working every single poll. and every single poll has people who are just as honest as you and i working that people. no election is perfect, but there is not evidence of intention...

No one should falsely accuse election officials of cheating. they say but we dont have confidence in milwaukee, and we dont have confidence in madison. just remember, you take it down to the microlevel. there are volunteer poll workers practically volunteer, working every single poll. and every single poll have people that are just as honest as you and i working that poll. no election is perfect, but there is not evidence of intentional malfeasance. no evidence that the election in 2020 wasnt ac...

Communities, across race, across religion, across all kinds of the layers of diversity that we have in this country, that we need to solve together and rather than come together and try to figure out that together, which is what democracy calls us to, you know, unfortunately, weve seen a party saying rather than try to contest for those votes, were just going to try to block the ballot as clinton said. but the reality is none of this is inevitable in terms of where well be in 2024. if we continu...

But i just feel like im not convinced. >> well, so you shouldnt be convinced, chris, because were still watching investigations unfold both by congress and, frankly, the department of justice is doing its own investigations. so until we know all that can be known and find all that can be found we cant actually say a crime has not been committed. and certainly there are indications that there are many things we can be concerned about, but also that the more we learn, the more steps we learn, we m...

School board members and others. we really have to change that narrative and protect people like people who are working as poll workers as election officials so that we can continue to have those people in those places and so, i dont know why a decision has been made not to file charges in a case like this. i would hope that someone is seriously considering the facts, identifying the perpetrators and making sure that justice is served because it isnt important just to protect this individual but...

Itself a crime but intimidating pole workers, harassing poll workers falls within the criminal code. one of the reasons why ahmaud arberys case saw justice is because people organized and made noise about the fact that law enforcement was not taking action against his killers. this is the same situation in the context of poll worker intimidation. we have to also have on the ground organizing that identifies where and how the apparatus of government should be doing its job and theres a real quest...

Them against new state statutes that are trying to make it more difficult for them to do their job by criminalizing them. that is also where like in florida they might face fines for, quote, unquote, blocking a poll monitor, which has been completely political in terms of republican legislatures passing these kinds of laws. so there are all kinds of things that are happening now, including the fbi task force on voter intimidation and other things. but we have to do more of these things to make s...

A paradigmatic story because this is not the only poll worker thats been intimidated and harassed. in fact, as reuters documented, there have been many. a broad campaign of fear waged against poll workers. nearly 800 intimidating messages, more than 100 that warrant prosecution according to legal experts. and in this situation this is a woman whos plucked from an nmty by the internet and fed through the disinformation mill all the way up to the president of the united states and then has to bear...