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Cling to power and the way theyve always known things to be and they want to suppress those numbers. if we had a majority rule in this country, we would see democrats winning handily in races. and because people know they cant win a fair game theyre trying to cheat. and thats what were seeing here. intimidation at the polls. but you need to win elections through hearts and minds and ideas, not through intimidation. and so i would like to see more prosecution of those who are intimidating voters ...

I dont want us to lose that there are things that are happening right now because there is an election protection network of lawyers, so lawyers can volunteer in every state to essentially help with the legal proceedings for poll workers. some of this means defending 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 h...

Right? because this -- what we saw on that videotape very much appears to be a violation of georgia criminal law because there is a crime of, one, suborning perjury. frankly, poll workers being told a lie about voter fraud, that is in and of itself a crime. but also intimidating poll workers, harassing poll workers falls under the criminal code. one of the reasons why ahmaud arberys case finally saw some justice is because people organized and made noise about the fact that law enforcement was n...

Of those intimidating voters and poll workers. >> its the 80s south africa strategy, you suppress the majority, liberal whites and the voters of color. theyre attempting to suppress it. the investigation with the january 6th committee. eugene robinson has a piece out saying its too slow and this tidy and calm response and the committee im sure is doing great work. theyre interviewing lots of people. is it taking too long and do you think that strategy is effective, that its not on tv every minut...

And now we see people being threatened, harassed and harmed. this is the very kind of thing that the justice department has made it a priority to prosecute and that in all that backlash from republican senators saying youre trying to stomp on peoples first amendment rights to speak out against, you know, the election officials and 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...

>> because of the way these conspiracy theories were floated, they would be abstract and specific and funnel around. here is this piece of video from the place. at one point one of the deputies come out to say like have you no decency. this is crazy. these people are being houndsed and harassed. this is happening in realtime and to confirm what you said, this is from the lawsuit. the level of harassment she receive led the fbi to conclude she would not be safe in her home. on january 6th, a crow...

Attorney that falsely shows several poll workers actively stuffing ballots from suitcases hidden under a table. the site continue to post stories about freedman. the harassment got so bad that at one point freedman says she had to leave her home for two months along with the advice of the fbi. lets turn to barbara mcquade. words have consequences and while it may be a game to some people and conspiracy websites and politicians, it affected the lives of people who are targeted and now we may see ...

Stop with one thing. you cant get a pcr test easily these days either. i takes a while to get back. >> when it comes to the colorado case, one of the things we heard about at the beginning of the pandemic, even with delta is the idea of community spread this. colorado woman as we reported, as we heard from the governor traveled back from sarn africa. how are you thinking of community spread as relates to omicron now? >> its definitely here. so the importance of the travel really for contact trac...

The Commission on Elections (Comelec), Department of Education (DepEd), and Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) discussed on Monday their preparations to make the 2022 national and local elections COVID-19-proof.

So the wisconsin gop is waging an attack on the states bipartisan election commission. senator ron johnson is publicly urging republicans who control the state legislature to take over the running of federal elections in the state. a republican sheriff is even calling for five members of the states six-member election commission to be charged with felonies because they waived a requirement to send poll workers into nursing homes during the pandemic. so joining me now, one of the democrats on wis...