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That rank choice voting has led to a democrat winning a seat that has been in republican hands for 50 years. to me, it's so interesting because rank choice voting for any viewers that don't know means that instead of choosing one candidate, you put your candidates in order of preference so that is designed so that having more people run without acting as spoilers because you can choose them as your second shows. what i think is so interesting is that republicans are saying that the system is too onerous. it's too onerous to fill out more than one dot on voting forms. these are the same republi...

Want to get it done. what i said is this. we have a situation where we saw what happened on january 6 but it did not end there. since then a coordinated assault on the democracy, taking away weekend voting or registration during the last month or one drop off box for milwaukee. in montana. they took away same day registration which has been in place for 15 years. it is allowed for clearly in the constitution when it says congress can make or alter the laws for federal election, to put in minimum standards for federal elections to ensure everyone can vote regardless of their zip code and we get...

Afghanistan, the covid 19 pandemic and inflation going on and democrats want to call highways racist into $200 million market in nancy pelosi's district they are not having it. there's a lot of pressure on democrats be here over the weekend voting. i have been screeching about the garbage that is in this bill and i'm going to keep doing it until i have no voice. todd: you heard in the soundbites in cheryl's report these congressman on the progressive side, there soundbites are offensive to a majority of the american people, they represent such a small minority of the american voter is why do t...

Is ridiculous. because, of course, the bills don't say, stop black people from voting. the intent behind these laws is what is stopping black people from voting. your reaction to senator mcconnell. >> i'd quote a north carolina court, which had some republican-appointed judges that once said their laws, the laws that were struck down, discriminate with surgical precision. that's what happened in georgia. that's what happens in texas. when you take away weekend voting, what do you think that's about? when you say people who are standing in line are not allowed to get water and food when they're...

Baseline for voting so that you have access to that basic american right no matter where you live. it's the most american thing we can do. it's the most important thing we can do this congress. and i think that as important as other issues are if we fail to do it we will have failed the people who sent us here in the first place to debate about all these issues. and i think that history will rightly judge us harshly if we fail to address voting rights in this defining moment. >> among the nine of you who worked on this, did you talk about procedural matters? if senate republicans don't come al...