Michigan legislature eyes bill to clean up voter registration rolls
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Voting stations are set up for the primary election at the Kentucky Exposition Center, Monday, June 22, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. With one polling place designated for Louisville on Tuesday, voters who didnât cast mail-in ballots could potentially face long lines in Kentuckyâs unprecedented primary election. (AP Photo/Piper Blackburn)
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and last updated 2021-03-15 07:50:28-04
LANSING, Mich. â Legislation working its way through the Michigan Legislature aims to clean up the state s voter registration rolls.
The measure calls for those who haven t voted since the November 2000 election or who have âplaceholderâ birthdates in the state s voter rolls to have their registration marked as challenged until they respond to a mailing from the Secretary of State s office.
interference. georgia secretary of state is brian kemp. the current nominee for governor. he s overseeing his own election and is yet to back up any evidence of his hacking allegation that he made yesterday morning. joining me from georgia s radio host presley and latasha brown. every one welcome. let s talk first a bit about the claims and the accusation that kemp s office made yesterday that democrats tried unsuccessfully to hack into the voter registration rolls. it woultd seem the secretary of state made this claim without any evidence of hacking.
address. you think, no big deal. that could hurt native americans who live on tribal lands who often don t have street addresses. so, this is an issue all across the country. take a look at this. so important to register right now and vote this november. speak your mind, there s nothing to it. vote. there s always a big public push around election time to mobilize voters. but states across the country are actually passing new laws to restrict access to the ballot box. they re limiting early voting, they re closing polling places, they re passing voter i.d. laws, purging the names from voter registration rolls. all of this disproportionately hurts racial minorities and the poor. in 2016, three times as many black and hispanic voters than white voters across the country were told they lacked the proper i.d. to vote in the 2016 election, according to a new survey. and twice as many black voters
deterrent. all well and good, we need to whack them everywhere we can. but at the same time, we need to take steps to protect our electoral process. we know the russians are attempting to get into the voter registration rolls. all they need to do is change one numeral and change the vote. how can they make their voting opportunity unavailable to them because the voter rolls have been changed. we know they have attempted to do that. we know there s a problem going on in florida and in other states, money needs to be immediately available so that the states can improve their electoral protections. and if there is not a paper trail out there of the ballots, we re making a big mistake. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. now more than 25 million people in the projected path of hurricane florence, an update on the storm s path, speed and strength moments away.
allocated that republicans said it hasn t been used, you don t need more. one of your colleagues just on the program said, well, look the russians didn t sway the election so why should we spend more money on it? even though they re still trying. yeah, i heard that. to me that was a very disturbing comment. the reason is that we know in 20 something states they were able to crack into the voter registration rolls. you can wreak havoc if you change somebody s address or birth date or name by a few letters so to me that s they re basically right there so i didn t understand his comment. in terms of the resources we need, after the hanging chad episode in the 2000 election, there was double, i think, or more in terms of the amount of resources, hundreds of millions of dollars committed back then to election security and that s when counties and states updated their voting equipment switching from paper ballots to what we have now which is electronic