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Color. you dont think thats a coincidence, do you? >> thats right, here in hidalgo county, we have these innovations and had the largest turnout in 33 years. were home to houston and other cities, beautiful voters of both parties, it was incredible. of course now republicans at the state level are trying to ban these innovations under the guise of this idea of this lie that there was massive voter fraud. whats happening is after the representative and his colleagues courageously walked out to st...

I was still watching when one of my state senators who represents dallas was talking and saying what youre doing here is going to impact african-american voters trying to vote after church. and the sponsor of the bill was saying, well, poll workers want to go to church, too. thats why were changing the time. this was no typo, this was intentional. and it was -- its ridiculous, of course. when people found out, they realized how ridiculous it was. so thats why they pulled it. now youre seeing all...

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Agencies in expanding voter registration opportunities as permitted by law. finally as i noted two weeks ago, were seeing an increase in menacing and violent threats from the highest aministrators to volunteer poll workers. today the deputy attorney general will highlight the prevalence of these threats, and instruct them to prioritize investigating these threats. today we will also launch a task force including personnel from the criminal division, the civil rights division, the national securi...

Agencies in expanding voter registration opportunities as permitted by law. finally, as i noted two weeks ago, we are seeing a dramatic increase in menacing and violent threats ranging from the highest administrators to volunteer poll workers. to address this effort to undermine our electoral process, today the deputy attorney general will issue a directive to all federal prosecutors and the fbi which will highlight the prevalence of these threats, and instruct them to prioritize investigating t...

Democracy first and let the policy differences figure itself out. but right now it is a -- never did i think in my 50-odd years of being on the earth that i would be speaking out about democracy in this country. we have had numerous discussions about democracy and never in this country like this and so it means gravely to me to continue and make sure that we support the elections workers, the poll workers, the folks doing the job under the threat of physical harm and the past year of health care...

Initial, very, you know, preliminary results, he is in fourth place, several points behind -- about nine points behind the person in third place right now, which is kathryn garcia. but its very important to stress -- were outside a polling place here on the upper west side. just now things are really wrapping up with poll workers here beginning to cart away ballots and paperwork. so this is very, very preliminary. the results that are coming in tonight, that are being released by the board of el...

Turns out at least in these very initial, very preliminary results, hes in fourth place. several points behind, about nine points behind the person in third place right now which is kathryn garcia. very important to stress were outside a polling place here on the upper west side and just now things are really wrapping up with poll workers here beginning to cart away ballots and paperwork so this is very, very preliminary. the results that are coming in tonight that are coming out of being releas...

Having me. what they decided was they wanted to change the composition of the board. originally, we were appointed by each political party, but they decided that in our majority republican controlled commission, but they wanted to take over. so, what they did, in actuality was to pass local legislation to remove all board members initially, they were only going to remove two. but in the end decided to remove everyone. and it was simply because of our election after 2021, the runoff, the november...

So if you lost by 15%, why wouldnt you throw that into doubt, too? because some of the allegations that are being made about 200,000 ballots being brought in from china, that would swing not just a close race but a race that had a wide margin of victory. so, no. it is very frustrating. youre right. we are glorified bean counters but we are bean counters who care about this democratic process and we just want to go about doing that. and im really worried about our ability to recruit sufficient po...