it is alarming and so far as the gop, at the state level in michigan, but elsewhere. has institutionalized this effort to undermine voting through these various mechanisms. they are looking for a solution to a problem that doesn t exist. yeah, ali, i consulted a number of election law experts on this, and they all say it is unprecedented because we have what we have here is not just a political party recruiting the folks who are supposed to be the nonpartisan election experts to administer our elections, but also training them. setting up workshops and specifically in how to contest votes. and equipping them with the tools to do so. including a hotline that would connect them while they are in those halls with roving party attorneys, as well as a website, ali because it is not as possible to use the cell phone when you are inside and election administration center. and an important part about this, also ali is in all of the hours it takes that i listened to you i heard to a person, a
training as well as new tools including, for instance, a hotline so that they are in constant contact with roving party attorneys. secondly, equipping them with a website that s being developed by a company called zen desk and you may or may not be familiar with it if you have ever had, for instance, a fashion emergency, you are on the website, can t wait to talk to the person on the 1-800 number, you can do a live chat. they will have a live chat option while they are in the halls to be able to talk to party attorneys. so the election law experts who i talked to say that the concern to get to the answer to your question is that on election day they could really kick up a haze of legal uncertainty in these primarily democratic districts. now, the concern there is that if there are these legal questions in these primarily democratically districts if they create this type of chaos that you raise questions about being able to certify. now, why is this important? because just last week we
exactly that exact gambit is what election law experts are concerned about happening in 2024. and they ve warned that states don t need to change any laws. those state legislatures could send a fake slate of electors to congress if republicans are in power of the house and senate. they can decide, we re just going to accept them and declare the loser the winner. that would be a huge deal. and the only way that congress can protect against that is by fortifying the electoral count act, which we know that there are bipartisan group of senators that want to do that. but nothing has come of it so far. both of them did dramatically change their tune. we should point that out. but this is congressman roy from texas early on. november 7th. we need ammo. fraud examples. we need it this weekend. so early on when the president was saying i m going to fight this, his allies in congress were willing to stand with him. they wanted specifics. white house never had specifics. they never had spe
but they ll gladly do it and i think we re seeing that vaccine requirements work and yes, there are a few people that are unhappy, we should understand that but that s a very small minority always great to talk to you thank you very much. thank you there is a very real and continuing threat to our democracy just under the adarr of turning the every day people who make our elections run into agents of sabotage maga world could not steal the election for trump in 2020, but what s to stop them from trying to do it in 2024 or earlier? one of the top election law experts in america is here with a new warning, next. [band plays] a place where everyone lives life well-protected. and even when things go a bit wrong, we ve got your back. here, things work the way you wish they would.