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About our democracy, and an attempt to weaken the strength of it but also the legitimacy of it, and there are foreign actors that try and do it, and then we have domestic threats, and that's part of what we witnessed on january 6th. and there needs to be, of course, consequence for that. so that is occurring in terms of the process that is about seeking the evidence about what actually happened and who are the bad actors because, of course, yes, they should pay a consequence. there should be accountability. in terms of elected leaders, to the extent that they were complicit in a crime, of cour...

Saying, yeah, a bunch of legislatures were in on this. our own colleague, joy reid, has the big interview of the week, the news-worthy interview with kamala harris. they've taped it. it's going to air tonight. it sounds like a plug, but i'll be watching it. but here's the one excerpt we have as to whether political elites elected have to be held accountable. take a look. >> what do you think should be the consequences for people like ted cruz, people like josh hawley, who are now being named, as we learn more about those who were actually putting together the plan to overthrow our election? >>...

Secretary of State - Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson asked the Attorney General and State Police to investigate reports her office received this week that an unnamed third party was allowed to access vote tabulator components and technology in Roscommon County. 

Elections system. and in doing that, it conveniently sets republicans up to question the results of elections they don't like. so, we have to call that for what is. and we have to make sure that we don't create some sort of false equivalency. on the one hand, there's this audit, on the other hand, counties oppose it. no, all of us had to recognize this is a cynical effort, a tragic one at that, and it tempers with democracy. as far as what specifically we can do, i have our county attorney here looking at legal options. it's not clear to us that there is a statute under which the state can con...

Need for more support for election officials. and with this network of 30 bipartisan election administrators, lawyers and experts around the country, it is about essentially protecting and defending those election administrators who protect and defend our democracy every day against these historic, real, specific threats that we are receiving daily, even now eight, nine months into 2021. >> you know, when bob bauer and ben ginsburg first wrote in "the new york times" about the need for this effort in june, they mentioned the threats against election officials but it felt to me or at least my u...