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Commission to be charged with felonies because they waived a requirement to send poll workers into nursing home during the pandemic. joining me now one of the democrats on wisconsins bipartisan election commission, mark thompson. this is fascinating and ive been wanting to have you onto talk about this. thank you for doing it. republicans in your state want to dismantle the election commission and put you and your colleagues in jail over trying to help the elderly vote in 2020 during a pandemic....

Election. it was people. it was people like you, secretary raffensperger. are you worried if this happens again, a different result will come out of it? >> to your point, thats why integrity counts and thats why it counts at my position, and all your poll workers. when you think about it in georgia, we have over 2,500 precincts. we have thousands upon thousands of precinct workers, poll workers that volunteer their time, get paid very little for 14-hour days and those are your neighbors and peop...

New Jersey's election process needs to be investigated.

>> well, what we saw in georgia after the election is we had poll workers -- in fact, we had some poll workers who were followed home in bartow county which went over 75% of president trump, followed home. thats the kind of intimidation that should never occur. a young poll worker was threatened along with his family members because he had a unique last name kind of like i do. that should never happen. we had election directors. if you have an election and your poll workers dont show up, what ar...

Confusion on that front too. also there were some issues, it appears, at some of the polling places. one issue in particular i think today that slowed things up was in essex county, around newark right there. theres basically 56 precincts in essex county, heavily democratic essex county, where the voting machines are now essentially impounded because there was some kind of an issue at the polling place. the county clerk says hes got to get a court order now to get the machines back, to have them...

Ciattarelli is ahead, but there was a lot of confusion on that front to, and then also there is just some issues, it appears at some of the polling places, one issue in particular i think today was an excess county, around, newark theres 56 basically 56 precincts heavily democratic essex county, where the machines, the voting machines are now essentially impounded, because there was some kind of issue at the polling. the county clerk said we have to get a court order now to get the machines coun...

He said it was an issue involving poll workers. but basically now theres a whole process to get those machines back and get everything counted from them. again, there would have been a big batch of votes there from essex county, likely would have been a very pro-murphy batch, might have sped things up too. so a couple of things all happening at once. >> on that point, particularly what you were describing in newark, do you expect there will be a recount here? im trying to remember what the exact...

Himself in this election means he is on the cusp of becoming mayor of the city. theres a big number of democrats compared to republicans in new york city, and curtis slewa, founder of the guardian angels, he went to vote, and was told he couldnt wear his trademark red jacket with his name on because it was considered campaign material. he got into a fight with poll workers. >> im not supposed to be standing here. but because im standing here every day new yorkers going to realize that they deser...

But raffensperger points to earlier this month when fulton county fired two poll workers for allegedly shredding 300 voter registration forms >> what you are looking at is disfranchisement of up to 300 voters. we want to make sure it is an even-handed approach we are doing our own investigation. >> reporter: as republicans tout election integrity, democrats point to a political power play. >> reporter: so what do you think the motivation here is >> the secretary of state is in a tight primary ra...

Resisted pressure from former president trump to find enough ballots to overturn bidens narrow win in georgia. and he now faces a difficult primary race against a rival endorsed by mr. trump. >> we need to have fulton county fix its problems. thats why theres review panel looking at whats going on. >> reporter: fulton county has had issues. in one of the first pandemic election in june 2020, voters waited for hours to cast a ballot. democrat rick baron heads the fulton county board of elections....