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important but they are doing the people s work. your last quick thought, crystal. well again we re focusing on the wrong thing and we should be focusing on why is this legislation even existing? why are we trying to limit people s access to voting? we should be expanding access to voting and be absolutely allowing people to vote by mail. this is still a pandemic we re in and so to have someone sit here and say people shouldn t have access to voting by mail is ludicrous. if anything that s the actual loser. that s loser behavior creating laws to limit people s access to vote. that s my last thought. expand voting opportunity to make sure it s legal and lawful. it is legal. voting by mail is legal. harris: you guys going back and forth is exactly what americans are used to in this. when you cut and run they don t get the see the sausage be made. they don t give us credit as voters, whatever state you are in, to know that the process is happening. good to see you both, crystal and
Cook County hotlines available to voters with disabilities or language barriers Stickers declare I voted in several languages. Daily Herald file photo, 2015
Updated 4/5/2021 5:04 PM
Voters who have disabilities or language barriers can reach out to any of 15 Cook County hotlines for assistance on Election Day.
The Cook County clerk s office provides voting assistance via the hotlines in Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, Polish, Russian, Ukranian, Gujarati, Urdu and Arabic, as well as in English.
Voters who have disabilities also can get help via a hotline, and there is a TDD hotline for hearing or speech impaired voters.
Touch screen voting machines are equipped with ballots in the same languages. Audio ballots are available, as well. The clerk s office assigns bilingual election judges to many precincts.
traditional early voting. so it s difficult for people to participate. and because of that, there s only something like a 16% participation right in the very first voting opportunity that people have in this primary process, the iowa caucus. that doesn t make any sense. it doesn t make sense, as i have said many times, we keep telling black women you are powering our victories in louisiana and alabama and you re the key to 2020 and we start the nominating in two states that hardly have any black people in them. that is the challenge for the dnc to reconstitute the kind of effort like it did ahead of the 1972 caucus and to make changes. you heard from tom steyer, no doubt, who suggested some sort of change to the qualification of metrics for the next debate. i wonder why that is not resonant with you? why not say a change could be made now? this is an important thing for
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.