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Coalition wants meetings on how Hinds County Election Commissioners ordered the wrong ballots, causing some precincts to run out of ballots.

One month after Mississippi's November statewide election, voting rights groups say election officials in the state's largest county have failed to provide enough information about the problems that led to polling precincts running out of ballots. The coalition of statewide and national civil rights organizations has requested meetings and more details about why Hinds County Election Commissioners ordered the wrong ballots, leading to shortages at several polling locations on the day ...

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Look, its getting a lot of attention, its putting him back in the news. hes fund raising a boodle off of this, so theres that. lets say he wins the nomination. as i was saying before, one of the problems here is donald trump can really command loyalty among certain parts of his base, but what weve seen in all recent elections is that a hes very epo lahrizing to those in the -- very polarizing to those in the middle and key voting groups. thats how joe biden beat him the last time, and thats what...

>> thank you for having me. >> can you tell us the basis for this lawsuit and who your organization is recommending in bringing it? >> sure. our organization is representing two really great voting groups. the alliance for retired americans and, the basic facts of the complaint are simple. we now have vigilantes. some of whom are armed intimidating voters on casting their ballots in a legal way. that is via drop box. the law is very clear. there are two sets of laws. one that goes back to the da...

Health, when youre number 1 for maternal mortality. >> the moral equivalent of saying voter turnout disproved suppression is like saying more people getting in the water means theres no sharks. we know voter suppression is alive and well in georgia and well continue to fight that. >> well get to the question about georgia is the worst place to live in a second. what i want you to talk about is what she just said about the voter turnout that proves or disproves suppression. what do you make of th...

54%, saying they oppose it. we can break it down a couple different ways. first there is the partisan divide. democrats mostly in favor of this, republicans almost universal leo posed but theres that independent number, 53/33 oppose among independents. also notably if you break this down by race and ethnicity, whats most striking is among hispanic voters its close to a 50-50 issue. the morning consul comes back 44% support, 40% oppose. no clear preference among hispanic voters. last week we were...

Online and looking at the polls among average voters in the country. but i also think theyre worried about their base as well. the quinnipiac poll you were pointing to shows bidens approval down to 33 percents and losing support in democratic voting groups. they are also losing democrats in the process. >> dana: josh, listening to against the grain this weekend. thats what i do. thanks so much. >> bill: thank you, josh, nice to see you. back to the "wall street journal." biden follows the trump ...

They dont meet voter i.d. requirements under the new law. and since the law required new voter registration forms, it led to a shortage to voting groups and also virginia which seems intent on turning itself into florida north now that trump wolf in sheeps clothing glenn youngkin is in the governors mansion. there are 20 miles filed restricting access to absentee voting after record numbers of virginians did that thanks to the state democrats expanding voting options. and a short time ago chuck ...

Democracy. mitch mcconnell doesnt need to do anything because hes already broken the u.s. senate and republicans are undermining democracy at the state level. >> with the president there are voting groups who say, hey, listen, dont bother coming here unless you have concrete action. does he have concrete action? >> i think the president will lay out a pathway today to call the questions that the united states senate. and thats where the question has to be called. whether the united states senate...