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Pre1965. in many ways youve gone back to a jim crow republic where the states can enact all of these efforts to deny and dilute the rights of african-americans and other voters of color and the department of justice is now in a position of trying to seek them out and seek out the injustices. its costly, time-consuming, and relies on witnesses to bring information forward. thats why its so important that these federal bills be enacted, this that we see h.r. 1 pass, we see hr 4 passed. because alt...

Objected to more than 1,000 discriminatory voting changes between 1965 and 2006. but in recent years, the protections of federal voting rights law have been drastically weakened. in 2013, the shelby county decision effectively eliminated the pre-clearance protections of the voting rights act which had been the departments most effective tool to protect voting rights over the past half century. since that opinion, there has been a dramatic rise in legislative efforts that will make it harder for ...

0 its great to see you. im geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. theyre about to have a gathering of world leaders and theyll be joined by british royals. well have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down l...

On the question of protecting american democracy, there is perhaps another option. just going to throw it out there. in his recent op-ed, he says he supports, he doesnt support the for the people act, but he does support the john lewis voting rights act, which would restore the federal preclearance requirements that john roberts and the conservatives on the supreme court just ripped to shreds for no reason. manchin writes, quote, the john lewis voting rights advancement act would update the form...

According to your algorithm, you found thousands of voters in georgia was affected by this and prevented from casting ballots last year. how did that happen? >> thats right. thanks for having me on. what we looked into was the effect of distance to the polls. basically how far do you have to drive from your house to the poll to cast a vote. that affected peoples likelihood to vote. 214 voting places closed down after a decision in 2013 made it possible for states that previously had to get precl...

Approve voting changes for any new law they had to pass. same with georgia and alabama. remember, chris, north carolina is basically where the republican party perfected its frankenstein monster, where all the craziest policies originate from. so the lame duck -- they originated in 2016. thats when the republican legislature stripped the democratic governor of power in 2016, tried to take away his ability to appoint majorities on the state board of elections, the very state board of election tha...

Of places like bladen county might be a place that has preclearance. it seems like the place that should have it. extra scrutiny. there were pockets, large pockets, huge pockets where there was some stuff going on that was really not kosher and the federal government came in to specifically look at it. >> thats absolutely right, chris. 40 counties in north carolina were subject to the pre-clearance provision of the voting rights act. but essentially the state had to approve voting changes for an...

The these issues and the need for us to keep doing this work. heres the deal. if, in fact, this lawsuit, and i havent seen the contours of it. it was a lawsuit brought under the voting rights act and its determined and found that georgia engaged in intentional discrimination in the various schemes that we saw in the year leading up to this election, it is possible for the parties to ask for georgia to be bailed in, and the bail in provision remains untouched by the supreme courts decision in the...

What i think is a distraction from the work of both parties to sort of put together. >> quickly, josh, before we wrap this up, i mean, clearly a lot of people want this done. millions of dollars have been raised. i mean, what do you make of that? >> theres a lot of people who are, have a lot of sore feelings after this election and i think that is totally legitimate. and people have the right to use their dollars to vote and they have the right to use the dollars to support the recount. no one i...

Looked at the map, if we were having this conversation on thursday or friday morning, we would be saying can donald trump really turn eight or nine states in a week or ten days? you need a national change in the race to do that. is this that national change? we wont know for sure until tuesday or wednesday when the polling settles down a little bit but the clinton campaign believes its not. of course they would. one of the reasons is because of early voting we talked about already. like this rac...