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Natalie andrews covers congress for the wall street journal reporting at wsj. Com. On twitter, she is a w sj, thank you for joining us. Thank you. America hosted a discussion on ranked Choice Voting also called instant runoff voting. It takes voters second and third choices into account if no candidate receives the majority. This is one hour 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to new america. Im glad we have a nice room, comfortable chairs. Im the director of the food and political reform and when i welcome you all to a discussion of the possibilities of ring Choice ...

Jocelyn benson talks about democracy and Election Integrity and efforts to remove donald trump from the 2024 president about. This is part of the association of american loss collapse annual meeting in washington dc. It is about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] all right, good morning, everybody. Welcome to our session today, our president s conversation we are going to be having, grateful to have so many folks gathered in washington for this annual meeting. So glad to have so many colleagues front and center. Love that. I am really glad to have Jocel...

Thats a valid interest, correct . Correct. Well, if in a case like this where theres a 45 deviation, something of that order, then why isnt texas required at that point to to recognize that these interests that are legitimate under the constitution which are voterbased should not be accommodated and so that you should at least give some consideration to this disparity that you have among voters . Well, first off, the court in gaffney upheld the use of population while recognizing that there could, there was in new york at least, a different state a 29 voter definition. Yet the court said it wa...

Preclearance approval. If the expert said the draft map satisfied the Voting Rights act and the only reason to additionally depopulate the district was to achieve a further partisan skew, then that shows that partisanship was a very i understand two of the members said it was not the primary motive, but it certainly was a pervasive motive in the process by which these districts were drawn. Our position is a very narrow one that we ask the court to hold, is that partisanship does not justify deviating from one person, one vote, and that a mistaken belief that preclearance was necessary to under...

Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tenne...