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Believe -- joe i dont know -- i know the president uses those words in rallies, but lets try not to use it here. you were the man who -- what should voters even know about why election claims about arizona are utterly false. i worked with a 4 to 1 majority of republican board of supervisors to revamp the entire system, which was bearing the weight of a lot of age. we improved our security system, the tabulation system. we improved the way we train or poll workers. we joined with the board of sup...

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...

Important portfolio. kamala harris marking six months in office by doubling down on voting rights. she is set to meet with poll workers and election officials and will talk about passing restrictive laws in states across the country. and, of course, president biden marking six months in office, hitting the road to push his infrastructure plan in ohio, which is a state hell be targeting ahead of the mid-terms. but his presidency has been plagued by a belief many americans believe donald trump won...

There is always an effort in churches and community groups in the months leading up to elections. this is not a high-paid job. >> no. >> this is primarily some people who volunteer because they want our democracy to work better. did the people that the vice president met with today feel threatened? did they talk about feeling threatened with criminal prosecutions? >> folks at the meeting detailed their various experiences. one of the former poll workers, now a current election official, was from...

. just a few hours from now vice president harris will meet with poll workers and other election officials at the white house where shell hear their concerns about voting rights in america. this follow the vice presidents meeting last week with a group of texas democratic lawmakers who fled their state and went to washington, d.c. for a month to prevent the ability for the texas legislature to vote. joining me is one of the state lawmakers, represent trey martinez fisher, a democratic. good to...

Send your ballot in should you have to who you are. >> i said i oppose voter i.d. its the law in texas i oppose. >> pete: you oppose voter i.d. you dont think the most sacred obligation of our republic you should have to prove how are in order to vote? >> so there are a lot of texans, hundreds of thousands who dont have a drivers license license. >> pete: woe whoa whoa whoa, do they have a social security number. according to the law you can put last four digital of social security number. in he...

To be opened 24 hours. it wasnt necessary. we didnt have the population. but when you look at a place, like harris county, it -- it, absolutely, did what it was supposed to do. and that was -- that is what was frightening to the republicans. they see that their power is dissipating. they see that black and brown people are voting. the growth, in the last ten years, 80% of it, in the last decade, has been because of people of color. >> uh-huh. >> that is whats scary in texas. >> and the bill, s.b...

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...

Time for folks to early vote. so, look, that language was probably in some earlier versions weeks ago, but that language is not in the house -- >> are you sure? because im being told its in hb-3 and s-1. >> i dont know about sb-1. im not in the senate. >> but is it in hb-3? >> no. >> are you sure of that? >> i am confident. >> that under cuts the idea of making voting ability people. allowing a judiciary to take an election. and we all know that we really dont want politicians or even courts dec...

He convinced harris county officials to approve millions more doll toers pay for poll workers and drive-thru voting and mail-in ballots to try to ease the bottlenecks that led to long lines during the primary. we spoke to him. you might remember the first day of early voting for the general election last year when his hard work paid off. that day, the first day of early voting, hashz county had a record smashing turnout. almost double the early voting turnout in 2016. harris county continued to ...