Was a topic of last nights debate. The American Bar Association hosted experts looking at the history of Voting Rights and the security of mailin ballots. They talked about how the states are preparing for a large increase and answered viewers questions about the voting process. Were thrilled to be presenting a timely panel entitled access to the vote, the ballot and the mailbox. Sponsored by the aba section of civil rights and social justice. This panel is one of many in a series of Rapid Response webinars. Were planning additional programs on a variety issues so please visit american bar. Org crsj for you be dates on these programs. Before we go to our program and how today will work, its my pleasure to turn it over to angela j. Scott, the 2020 2021 chair of the aba section of civil rights and social justice for a few remarks. Welcome, angela. Thank you, jamie. Many thanks to you and the entire civil rights and equal Opportunity Committee for planning this very timely panel. So its m
They talked about how the states are preparing for a large increase and answered viewers questions about the voting process. Were thrilled to be presenting a timely panel entitled access to the vote, the ballot and the mailbox. Sponsored by the aba section of civil rights and social justice. This panel is one of many in a series of Rapid Response webinars. Were planning additional programs on a variety issues so please visit american bar. Org crsj for you be dates on these programs. Before we go to our program and how today will work, its my pleasure to turn it over to angela j. Scott, the 2020 2021 chair of the aba section of civil rights and social justice for a few remarks. Welcome, angela. Thank you, jamie. Many thanks to you and the entire civil rights and equal Opportunity Committee for planning this very timely panel. So its my pleasure to welcome everyone who is watching. Before i begin, and i say this before i say anything, i just want to make sure that you all know that im sp
Was more flexibility. I think to meet those needs. So just so i understand. So the reason that so much, um overtime is used in central is because of the robberies, primarily well robberies. Right now or one of the issues that we have to contend with. There is the other thing we know about the retail staff. Of course, we do still have um, safe shopper depart deployment and union square. Weve cut it down significantly from where it was, you know, a year ago year and a half ago, but its still there. Ah i think we have 10 officers. Now last assistant chief has already come up in a second. But there is a need and then you we hate. We ran tourism deployment for over a year. Ah lot of the spots that people go to when they come to San Francisco or in the Central District union square fishermans war. Embarcadero at least the central part district part of embarcadero lombard street. So what our experiences told us is that theres a lot of victimization in those places. So weve cut that down so we
Thank you all for being here. Sorry about the cold weather. Were here because with the controversy over president trumps refusal to accept the results of the 2020 president ial Election Results, our country has entered some precedented unprecedented territory. Voter registration and public trust in Election Results are on the radar screen and away they have never been before in our lifetimes. One of the questions on the midterm ballot this fall is how our democracy itself will weather the storms. We are here to discuss that today with a true expert on these issues, sean moralesdoyle, director of the Voting Rights program at the Brennan Center for justice. Hes a seasoned litigator with experienced civilrights and constitutional matters, and has handled a wide variety of labor and employment cases. He got his undergraduate and law degree from northwestern university. Sean, thank you for being here. So, a lot has happened since election day 2020. Lets start with voter access. Your center
A toxic brew of politics, racism and conservative Supreme Court rulings fuels the effort to prevent people of color and college students from casting ballots.