fitzgerald defended the measure by saying it s difficult for people to turn on channel 6 in milwaukee and there is a shot of someone voting during a time when it s not available to people in rural areas. he went on, here he is. they turn to us for the answer like why is this going on? why are there people voting in milwaukee on a saturday afternoon when i couldn t go to the town and vote right now? there is nobody there. the town hall is closed and the lights are off. i have to wonder whether you have big states, minorities often grouped in big cities and liberal and all kinds of ethnic groups, they tend to be the liberal areas. it seems they wished those areas weren t in the states. they could like republicans just outside the city limits. looking at rural areas and comparing them to the cities, the bottom line as dale said is let s increase access for everyone. we shouldn t be restricting the vote. what about 7:00? a lot of people, all the producers agreed about this today. l
especially in wisconsin where governor scott walker wants to control not only he wants to control the vote for a running. to get reelected. it s about the policies. to get reelected so that he can push through his conservative right wing agenda. and maybe to run for president. oh, maybe. dale, how is this going to end? is this going to stop or keep going? is this battle going to go on to try to stop people from being able to vote, even though they re american citizens? it s really a shame that some people think instead of trying to convince more people to vote for you, that we should try too prevent people who might think differently from voting at all. and this fight is going to go on, unfortunately. until we start changing people s minds and reminding everyone that your choice matters. it s not about whether or not you can pass some state imposed obstacle course, that every person matters in our democracy. we have to get back to that basic principle of one person, one v
mail absentee and voting the day of the election, you know, i mean, anybody who can t vote wall those options, they ve really got a problem. i really don t think they care that much about voting in the first place, right? that s how he talked. the co-director of the advancement project and dale ho is the director of the aclu voting rights project. i don t quite get what is going on here. it just it seems to me that the republicans figure out when black people vote and shut it down. it just seems that s what they do. your thoughts. is it more complicated? well, chris, this is still out of the same playbook. that s about making it harder to vote for partisan reasons. they re trying to manipulate the outcome of elections. they know there are certain groups, you know, that use early voting, that use sunday vote where black churches go and caravan down to the polls with their congregations to vote in unison. and what they ve done is they ve gone after those voters. it s strategically craf
policy reasons for doing any of these attacks on the right to vote. and whenever they do, they re easily shot down as being false reasons, and at this point, they re coming right out and saying they don t want certain people to vote. one of the leaders in the republican party in the house said that we don t want to cater to these voters who take the bus after church on sunday to vote. so they re just coming right out and saying they don t want certain people voting in ohio. so let me go right now to dale. in other words, they re welfare queens because they want to vote on sunday. cater to, what kind of language is that? the government is not paying for the buses. the churches are. people involved with the democratic politics in many cases. i think there s a difference of world view here, chris. there are some people who actually are in favor of erecting barriers to the ballot box. i think what they think is we only want voters who are capable
vote. and whenever they do, they re easily shot down as being false reasons, and at this point, they re coming right out and saying they don t want certain people to vote. one of the leaders in the republican party in the house said that we don t want to cater to these voters who take the bus after church on sunday to vote. so they re just coming right out and saying they don t want certain people voting in ohio. so let me go right now to dale. in other words, they re welfare queens because they want to vote on sunday. cater to, what kind of language is that? the government is not paying for the buses. the churches are. people involved with the democratic politics in many cases. i think there s a difference of world view here, chris. there are some people who actually are in favor of erecting barriers to the ballot box. i think what they think is we only want voters who are capable and willing to try to overcome those barriers in order to vote. that s pretty hamiltonian,