essentially, things kind of wrapped up today. the judge is predicting, i believe, the week of august 13th to render a decision. what we know so far, and everything that we followed in the proceedings is that it hasn t gone very well for the state, capped off by the secretary of state s comments that you just referred to. there s been some very compelling testimony from anecdotal stories, especially by those individuals who filed the suit, miss applewhite, miss gonzalez, miss lee talking about all kinds of issues that they ve had to go through with respect to trying to get their identification. and we need to be clear, this is this law is simply a voter suppression move. it is a return to a poll tax. it is partisan in nature, but it is absolutely a return to a poll tax. people are having to spend hundreds of dollars to try to
well, lawrence, thank you for giving me the opportunity to be with you. essentially, things kind of wrapped up today. the judge is predicting, i believe, the week of august 13th, to render a decision. what we know so far, and everything that we followed in the proceedings is that it hasn t gone very well for the state, capped off by the secretary of state s comments that you just referred to. there s been some very compelling testimony from anecdotal stories, especially by those individuals who filed the suit. miss applewhite, miss gonzalez, miss lee talking about all kinds of issues that they ve had to go through with respect to trying to get their identification. and we need to be clear, this is this law is simply a voter suppression move. it is a return to a poll tax. it is partisan in nature, but it is absolutely a return to a poll tax. people are having to spent
who have been registered to vote, who have voted in the past, and now can t vote like our 93-year-old plaintiff, miss applewhite, who is african-american woman, who doesn t have i.d., and she s been voting since the 1960s, since when black folks could, as she says. and now she will not be able to vote in this election. let s talk about this ruling over the weekend. this is the one in florida, the government releasing this database of noncitizen residents to the state. what impact do you think that will have? well, you know, if i were to come here from mars, i would not know the history of florida and it s bad lists. here we go again with florida trying to put together a flawed list. they did it in 2000. they did it in 2004, making people who are actually registered to vote find that their names were not on the rolls and they re doing it again. so we re really concerned about the fact that florida has this continued history of trying to scrub its lists right before an
underlying documents like the birth certificate. we have a plaintiff in our case going to trial. 93-year-old miss applewhite. she doesn t have an id because she couldn t get her birth certificate. she was able to get the birth certificate, but now she can t get the id because the birth certificate doesn t match her adopted name. there lots of reasons why people can t get this id. the bottom line is why should this stand in the way of participation in our democracy. we will have to leave it there. as always, we will continue to follow this story. we ll be right back. between taking insulin and testing my blood sugar. is this part of your life? freestyle lite test strips? why, are they any. beep! wow, that hardly needs any blood! yeah. and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. so easy. freestyle lite needs just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. really? yep, which is great for people who use insulin and test a lot. max and i are gonna run out and get them right now
disenfranchise voters, like mrs. applewhite, 93 years old, she marched with king for the right to vote. and now because she can t get a birth certificate, she is going to be unable to vote this year. is there anything that people can do to try to turn this around for themselves in if they can t get a driver s license or something with this photo i.d., is there anything that can allow them to vote in november? we are going to be working with people but to try to do that to try to get the underlying documents but 85% of colleges, for example, don t give the kind of i.d. that is required by this very restrictive law t is one of the most restrictive in the country and people are going to be confused, they have only got four months until the election and part of why we are hoping that we will win in court and at least get an injunction to stop this law from going into place in the fall. we are seeing these laws all over the country, in battleground states. the thing that i think is so