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>> absolutely. this past friday, before we kicked off our initiative, the secretary of state announced he was purging 100,000 voters from the voting rolls. now were seeing in one county, a majority african-american county in southwest georgia, theyre attempting to close polling sites there. in addition to that theyre actually pulling people off the board of elections. this is a blatant abuse of power and we need federal legislation to stop that, to actually expand some protection, and we need to...

Removed by the republican legislature as the chair and voting member of the state election board. secretary raffensperger is now running for re-election and doing everything he can now to ingratiate himself with trump voters. secretary raffensperger has now produced a list of nearly 102,000 voters who will be removed from the voting rolls unless they respond within 40 days to stay on the voting rolls. and leading off our discussion from georgia, helen butler, a member of the morgan county board ...

40,000 latinos, they came off the voting rolls. if we can silenced in texas, republicans will march all over this country until our democracy is destroyed. we will do it for daisy, just like on that video clip. we need to do it now. now is the time. >> when you were in washington -- forgive me if im wrong. i understand the among the people you met with is senator joe manchin, one democrat who is not signed on to support the for the people act. is that true? how did it go? >> yes. i met with sena...

They have so far refused to do so, saying they are well within the law. >> as soon as there was any sort of confusion or concern, we called them to remove the box. >> reporter: leading the charge against what she says is voter suppression is stacy abrams of georgia, who ran for governor and lost in a close race where black voters where thrown off the voting rolls. >> there have been battles being waged across the country, including in georgia, about who has access to in-person early voting. but ...

Judge ruled against effort to keep 100,000 names on the voting rolls. a voting at the security group founded by stacy abrams has filed the lawsuit. the group claims a new amendment to georgia state voting law could give inactive voters two more years before their names are heard. abrams refuses to concede her election loss for governor calling the state voting system, quote, rigged. and other federal court announced friday it will formally block a north carolina photo id law set to go into next ...

Those voter registrations and purge those people off the voter rolls. stacey abrams was not elected governor against brian kemp. she now leads an anti-voter suppression group called fair fight. fair fight has been battling this in court to try to stop it, but, i mean, this is part of a larger thing. i mean, as georgia democrats have fought harder and harder to register more and more people to vote in that state and as georgia has thereby increasingly trended purple and even toward blue, this has...

But lets start with financial aid to the enforcement community that they would allow asylum seekers to come in and apply according to u.s. law and that if they were granted asylum, then they would be allowed to come in legally. >> come on, there are already laws to apply for asylum. the left doesnt have a plan other than to fill the democrat voting rolls. in fact, now that i think of it, congress ought to be fired for forcing this president to negotiate with a foreign power to solve a national i...

But lets start with financial aid to the enforcement community that they would allow asylum seekers to come in and apply according to u.s. law and that if they were granted asylum, then they would be allowed to come in legally. >> come on, there are already laws to apply for asylum. the left doesnt have a plan other than to fill the democrat voting rolls. in fact, now that i think of it, congress ought to be fired for forcing this president to negotiate with a foreign power to solve a national i...

Aid to the enforcement community that they would allow asylum seekers to come in and apply accord towsmght s. law and that if they were granted asylum, then they would be allowed to come in legally. >> come on, there are already laws to apply for asylum. the left doesnt have a plan other than to fill the democrat voting rolls and the republicans going along with them. congress ought to be fired for forcing this president to negotiate with a foreign power to solve a national immigration crisis ou...

That are able to vote, and to either scare them to death so they dont go to the polls, either to scrub their names from the polls, or hide them in a desk like we saw in georgia. but this is not new. the problem here is what i find to be the issue is the fact that democrats dont tie these things together. every instance of voter suppression is somehow new and somehow in a separate silo. no. it is a pattern of aggression that politicians have had since the beginning of time, just in case jim crow ...