Florida Governor Ron DeSantis expected to sign election reform bill into law
GOP-run state legislature passed bill making it harder to access drop boxes
The measure also requires voters to apply more frequently for mail-in ballots
Last month, Georgia s governor signed into law similar election reforms
Republicans claim measures are intended to protect against voter fraud
Donald Trump claims he lost election to Joe Biden due to rampant fraud
Courts dismissed claims, saying no evidence was presented to support them
Brad Raffensperger joins Your World to discuss his feud with the former Georgia senator, future with GOP party
This is a rush transcript from Your World, April 29, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
NEIL CAVUTO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: You are looking live in Atlanta, Georgia.
The president is getting ready to speak at this event. He is in the Peach State right now. He had visited a little earlier today with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. This outreach he has had with former presidents continues.
Remember, he had talked on the phone to President George W. Bush ahead of his decision to pull out of Afghanistan by 9/11 that. We re told that call was short and sweet, but that President Bush appreciated the heads-up and the personal call, at that, continuing that right now, earlier, with President Jimmy Carter, and all of this after his joint address to Congress last night.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Georgia Republicans of Fraud in County Chairman Vote
On 4/29/21 at 11:15 PM EDT
Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has accused the Fulton County GOP in her home state of committing fraud in a recent election for chairperson.
In a tweet thread published on Thursday, Greene said that the county s GOP held a vote for a new chairperson on April 17. The party of election integrity collected votes in 9 red solo cups, Greene wrote. The outcome was more votes than voters & existing chair Trey Kelly won. But new people had joined. The people in outrage demanded a second vote.
For six years, Horace Williams has been waiting for this moment.
Williams is the founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Empowrd, a social impact startup with a free app that helps users stay up-to-date on local voting information and ways to contact elected officials. Launched in 2015, Empowrd has only recently gained traction with investors, landing one of 10 spots in Techstars s Social Impact Accelerator program earlier this year. The reason, Williams says: Rampant voter disinformation and suppression efforts over the past year have caused investors to search for startups with ideas to heal the nation s political divide.
Georgia is currently at the center of that divide. The state s new voting law, signed by Republican Governor Brian Kemp in late March, has been referred to as Jim Crow 2.0 for making voting significantly harder, particularly in predominantly Black districts. Proponents of the law say it will cut down on voter fraud, despite Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger
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