have voting rights. have you spoken to him about this? yes, i did. not long after i made that statement. we spent about an hour together. my staff and his staff and the two of us. i think he came forward with the proposal, if you recall, hr-1, for the people act. it went to the senate as well. he came in with the substitute for that to put it on the floor. he asked for time to gather up ten republicans who would allow the debate to be shut off around his bill. he could not get ten to circle and support his bill. so, he has not been successful in that. he joins us now and said i ve done my best. we will not allow a filibuster to defy basic constitutional rights and let s visit that later on. i think that the ball is in his
of signatures together, tell me, what are people saying on the ground about it? what husted is saying in that new york times editorial is that conversations about voter suppression somehow keep people from the polls. are you hearing that sort of, oh, it s too hard to vote so i won t go? that s not what i m hearing. right in my district we have a polling location. my polling location, actually, that took two years and $1 million in lawsuits in order for people s votes to be counted. what i m hearing from people and the message they ve been saying all along is that there is a disconnect between the state house and your house. so what we re hearing on the ground is not what we re haeg at the state house. and because they have drawn the lines, they kind of rule it. and that s why we have to go to the constitution. the group alek is out and they are dismantling voting rights state by state. we need a state by state strategy and we believe the voter bill of rights could could be a model
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early voting to be restored in the three days about before election day. but ohio activists are not sitting idly by relying solely on the courts to protect them. they are taking action trying to get a voter bill of rights added to the state constitution by way of a ballot measure this november. to do so they need to provide 385,000 signatures to the board of elections by july 2. joining me now from cincinnati, ohio, the woman leading that grass-roots campaign, ohio state representative alicia rece. so nice to see you. thank you for having me. all right. so start by telling me what this voter bill of rights provides. well, the voter bill of rights takes our current rights that we had before secretary husted started messing with early voting, before the republican-led legislature started trying to reduce access to the ballot. what it does is put the voting rights in the constitution so that we don t have to worry about who is in office.