measures like requiring photo id, like keeping voter registration rolls up to date and these federal laws that the president was talking about today, these are bad law substance of liebert at the call they are nothing more than a partisan political power grab by democratic senators in washington, dc. but by democratic senators in washington, dc.- by democratic senators in washington, dc. but how does banninu washington, dc. but how does banning drive-through - washington, dc. but how does banning drive-through voting, | banning drive through voting, as we have seen in some states protect election security and integrity? in protect election security and inteuri ? . , protect election security and integrity? protect election security and inteuri ? . , , ., , , integrity? in many states they are taking integrity? in many states they are taking commonsense - integrity? in many states they - are taking commonsense measures like requiring photo id in orderfor someone to like requiring pho
ramirez, texan and president and executive director of next gen america, an organization that works to empower young voters. welcome. thanks for joining us. thanks so much for having me. let me remind folks some of the voter restrictions now in place in your state. i think that s part of the problem, people keeping up with the new laws. banning drive-through and 24-hour voting. new criminal penalties for election workers. id required for mail-in voting. checking voter eligibility monthly and new paperwork for voting assistance. so talk to us about how so many voters are still not even up to date on these new laws, these new restrictions and what your organization, what rur rr doing to make sure they know what to do to get their votes in. well, we have to first remember why these laws have been passed in texas in the first place. you know, texas is a very diverse and growing and changing state. we re the largest battleground state in the country and republicans who hold power
they are focussed on the voting bills they say are restricting voting rights in texas. and this takes us back to where they were. this is a special session they re in right now, the texas governor has called. specifically to address voting bills and some other things. so these house democrats or texas democrats are going to effectively try to walk out. it s something they did earlier this summer in an attempt to stop further progress on these bills which they see as restricting voting rights in texas. sochl of the things the bills propose to do would be to make mail-in voting harder. banning drive-through voting. limiting early voting. one other thing that democrats are particularly insensed about is that it would curb any early voting until 1:00 p.m. on sundays. that s generally when the souls for the polls in black chunks will vote in mass. they feel like it s continuing specific groups of people. we ll keep an eye on this.
system. if republicans are worried about the integrity of something, they ought to look at the integrity of our electrical grid. eugene robinson, columnist not washington post, and matthew dowd, founder of country over party. in the past he was chief strategist for the bush/cheney president campaign in 2004. matthew, you are in texas. you re watching this. i want to just show our viewers some of the things that are in texas bill 3, adding i.d. requirements for mail voting, banning drive-through, early voting, adding criminal penalties to certain election processes, and empowering partisan poll watchers. it does bring to mind the idea of a solution in search of a problem and, boy, they re searching for that problem.
senator john mccain who supported most of the trump agenda, simply could not bring himself to cast that vote in favor of cruelty and what turned out to be the final days of his life. one vote by one republican who is no longer with us, spared us that particular cruelty. and donald trump remains enraged at john mccain in his grave to this day. now donald trump wants to take away voting rights from americans. they want to make black americans in georgia stand in long voting lines without access to water. because that kind of cruelty is the point. that s what donald trump thinks. some people deserve daring to vote and daring to vote against him. when you find republicans who are troubled by donald trump s cruelty but still vote for him,