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Community reacts to Hattiesburg municipal precinct changes Community reacts to Hattiesburg municipal precinct changes By Melissa Rademaker | February 22, 2021 at 6:44 PM CST - Updated February 23 at 10:47 AM HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Hattiesburg City Council voted last week to change the location for three voting precincts for the upcoming municipal elections. This change affects Wards 1, Ward 2 and Ward 4. Longtime Mobile-Bouie neighborhood resident Melvin Williams welcomes the chan...

Or twice that god will order our steps. but we have to move our feet. and you moved your feet to-- [inaudible conversations] you picked up phones and you handed out yard signs. you gave your neighbors a ride to the voting precinct. all of you have a reason why this election was important to you. and it may not be the same reason. but it is your collective experiences that make up the story of louisiana . and by the way, you showed a lot of good sense because you also voteed to reelect my wonderf...

Neighbors too. >> your kids and everybody elses kids and all those kids in schools who are scared of things happening to them, they cant vote so vote for the kids. i voted because im not for this country. i chose this country. im an immigrant to this country. i came in here for all of the things voting stands for. that sign is on a wall near my voting precinct. the only way democracy works is if we all participate, so that is a duty. its not just a right, i think its a real responsibility. >> al...

26% say theyll probably vote. and about a quarter say theyre still uncertain. another 19% say they probably will not vote. joining me to discuss, luke vans, president of the young democrats of georgia, and jake evans, president of atlanta young republicans. luke, jake, welcome to the show. let me start with you, luke. where are you guys? if you expect, you know, theres so much rhetoric about change, shouldnt there be higher numbers for those who are definitely going to vote? >> in georgia there ...

Proposal was if you are a 100% disabled veteran, when you reach retirement age, they want to cut your income. if you were getting $30,000 in disability, it would drop to 13,000. how is that taking care of the forgotten man and making sure the veterans are taken care of? >> this is your third book on trump. >> yep. >> why are you so fascinated? >> when i first met donald, i knew he was a cultural force. heres a guy that will say the most astonishing things and people believe him. hes a master con...

If you did that, most of you would be out of a job. you cant just pick up the garbage in some neighborhoods or fix the potholes in others. and if even people suspect you do, in new york you read about it in the newspapers every day. sometimes in our city you get shot first and questions are asked later, but nonetheless theres a reality to all this. oh, yeah, we have to grapple with what one of my favorite writers bill bishop wrote in the book called "the big sort," he lives in austin, texas, and...

Voting precinct, that could cause a great deal of havoc and chaos going forward. we just need to recognize 21st century technology, hacking is going to impact us for a while and we need to be better prepare. >> i asked him where would you put percentage-wise in the investigation, and she said 20% and theres probably 80% to go. one, i want to ask you if you agree with that saes mmt and and she writes. he is growing skeptical with all the leaks that have come out, theres never been a leak about th...

That is the reason you have preclearance, and that is the reason that you cant rely on the district court or the circuit courts to rule. >> mr. chairman, i voted a few years ago for the voting rights act extension for 25 years. it included preclearance in it. we all knew at that time that the supreme court would probably take up a case before long that would have wrestled with the question of whether there is a sufficient basis for the extraordinary remedy of requiring only a few states in the c...

Neighborhoods. they accuse mcdaniel and other tea party members of wanting to prevent blacks from going to the polls. on last nights program, ainsley earhart -- take a listen to another example that should make your blood boil, take a look. >> time is running out. please hurry. walk, drive or run to your voting precinct. if the tea party with their racist ideas win, we will be sent back to the 50s and 60s, youve heard what bennie thompson has said, with other elected officials, so vote today. >>...

Again, reaching across the aisle and by once again abandoning the conservative movement. >> reporter: mcdaniel was talking about an aggressive cochran effort to win his republican runoff with the help of democratic voters, allowed in mississippi. on the coast where cochran brought federal dollars for defense con tractedors in aid after katrina and by enlisting african-american organizers by jackie bland who handed out 5,000 flyers. >> im a democrat, but im supportinged that cochran. >> that kind...