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In order to access what seems to be one of the most kind and sympathetic things we could offer, which is that the ease of voting from home should be made available. we know these targeted bills are looking at people of color, they're looking at the disabled, they're looking at young voters, and they're trying to eliminate access for inconvenient voters who have the temerity to show up and use their power in 2020 and in georgia in the 2021 runoff elections. >> your group, fair fight action, has an initiative going on called hot call summer, trying to get people out and thinking about their voti...

General assembly legislatures meet different types of year and longer than 40 days and that's why ours looked like it came right after the election. the fact ha it did we had the senate runoff elections that finished on january 6th. january 5th. >> all right. do you think the fulton county investigation into the former president's role in perhaps attempting to manipulate the voting results in georgia is a legitimate investigation? >> it's a law enforcement matter and i don't comment on ongoing law enforcement matters. >> are you -- have you cooperating with that investigation given the role, y...

Where there was historic turnout in both the november 2020 elections and the subsequent runoff elections. and then crafting a suppression bill that addresses the very ways in which black voters were able to exercise their fundamental right to vote so robustly. what we see in this 90-page law is a restriction on the time in which you could request an absentee ballot. we see restrictions on the ability of election officials to voluntarily send out absentee ballots to eligible voters to enable them to vote through this well used mechanism that people used across the country for many decades witho...

Democracy and shared purpose. there's also i think in a narrow tactical since a real risk of a bedroom rank risk for the republican party and we sought in georgia and i think it doesn't seem crazy to mark some causal connection between the voting turnout drop out we saw and georgia in the runoff elections and the idea that they're changing machines anyway and i wonder what you think of it too because if you got paid to advise than you'd be freaked out about the persistence of this belief. >> well i would be freaked out by it because i think the market share is shrinking and you're continually ...

This incredible awful, building a democracy that represents people with dignity and shared purpose. there's also i think in a narrower tactical sense a risk of a bad boomerang effect on the republican party and we saw it in georgia. i think it doesn't seem crazy to mark some causal connection between the voting turnout drop off we saw in georgia in those run -- the runoff elections and the idea they're changing the machines anyway. and i wonder what you think of it too. if you got paid to advise, i feel like you would be freaked out about the persistence of this belief. >> i would be freaked o...