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What is to stop this from just being the future now that every election, partsans, you know, if republicans win, you know, folks out on the far fringes of the left, what is to stop them from doing this? >> you dont even have to have a close election. i mean, there is no good reason for doing this. 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 the close...

Voter disenfranchisement of our citizens. 45 years ago, my family left saigon before the communists took over vietnam and i was taught never to take out precious freedoms for granted so to me, this is one small token of repayment. >> helen, you know, republicans say the changes to these election boards are to improve performance. thats the reason they gave. improve performance. what do you think that actually really means? youre being removed. obviously hes a republican. youre being removed with...

Children, the family of people that work for the government or even the government workers. >> those individuals, along with local officials across the country have been on the front lines coming under attack for speaking the truth. it took a hand full of brave officials in key swing states to say no to donald trumps lies in the november election. those crucial heroes to stand up and say weve counted the votes and here is the winner. just for that, they are the heroes who put americas democracy ...

How to operate new equipment that we have the new voting machine technology, having enter generational kind of workers. making sure polling locations are where they should be and having drop boxes. ive advocated its a big scheme that goes along with the total takeover. the most egregious part of sb 202 is the takeover process where they can take overboards of elections as well as takeover election supervisor responsibilities and take away constitutional responsibilities from the secretary of sta...

Elections boards so they can do the important work it takes to make sure our voters for the right to get out whether its providing additional accommodations for voters with disabilities, providing language access so voters can make sure theyre able to vote in their own language and making sure that county elections officials, volunteers, poll workers are protected against the attacks weve been seeing against them here in georgia. >> one of the things, representative gonzalez, that the white hous...

From voting. >> thank you so much we discussed about it in meeting as georgia being the ground zero for voter turnout and the ground zero for voter suppression. i think that is why its so important the vice president came to georgia this week to talk to us about voting rights. burris we talked about the importance of protecting no excuse absentee voting the importance of being able to provide access to resources to county elections board so they can do the important work it takes to make sure th...

This fathers day, get $50 off health + ancestry kits. imagine feeling afraid for your life because you work to make sure americas elections are secure and legitimate. im talking about a third of poll workers who believe theres a tort on their backs. many other say theyve been threatened with physical violence just for doing their very important work. the director of the election reform center says this -- its one of the scariest parts of attacks. you cant have a democracy that functioning if y...

Proactively to work with a consultant group to go through all of our processes and procedures and make that transparent so that going forward no one can question anything that were doing with regard to how we handle chain of custody, how we deliver equipment, how we train poll workers, in order to try to combat some of this in the future. you know, i think thats the only thing we can do at this point just to try to be proactive about our problems and be transparent going forward. >> richard barr...

2020, and we need more good people to step up and serve as poll workers, election administrators, on the front lines protecting democracy. and we cant forget throughout history, we also know that those who have stood on the front lines of democracy. they have faced these threats. i have a rose behind me that was on john lewiss casket, when he was carried over -- one last time in selma, last july. and it always reminds me of the real sacrifices that have been made by those who come before us. to ...

Them and then multiply that by hundreds of thousands right across the country reggae that a piece. you begin to worry that this is salt that was launched, the sort of vitriol and harassment and these random workers who get caught some viral video that blows up in a qanon form that has tangible effects on our ability actually to administer free and fair elections. >> yeah i think its important to realize that well have a role to play in protecting democracy and indeed democracy prevailed in 2029 ...