good morning. a call to order this hearing of the rules committee on the administration of upcoming elections. i d like to thank ranking member blunt and our colleagues who are here, with more to come, for being here. our witnesses, who i will introduce shortly, her acting secretary of the commonwealth of pennsylvania, chapman. i want to thank you, you have a few things going on, i believe. given hewitt, it s productive and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, and tammy patrick, the senior adviser for elections that democracy fund. we are also going to hear from two witnesses who will be introduced by senator blunt i. thank you for being here, louisiana secretary of state ardoin and wesley wilcox, a supervisor of elections for marion county, florida. in 2020, we saw election officials across the country rise to the challenge of holding elections in a global pandemic. and we thank every one of you for that. thanks in large part to the work
a man who attended the rally that led to the capitol insurrection and also now the man who won the republican nomination for the governor s race there. he will now face pennsylvania s attorney general josh shapiro in the general election. a lot going on in pennsylvania. so let s go there. cnn s athena jones is starting us off live in lancaster, pennsylvania, with more on this deadlocked senate race. what s the latest that you re picking up? reporter: you mentioned, we re talking about the two leading candidates trading the lead back and forth. in the wee hours of last night. a lot to be determined. could be very close causing a recount. there s a problem though because a lot of votes still need to come in counties across the state. this is one of those counties. lancaster county where we learned early yesterday that about 22,000 mail-in ballots were misprinted with the wrong code, so they could not be scanned by the machines. here you see a room full of county staffers, ele
Hello and welcome. The governor of wisconsin is deploying the National Guard to help regulate protests against the shooting of an unarmed black man, jacob blake. Video posted online appears to show the 29 year old father of three being shot in the back. Hes in serious condition in hospital. Tensions in the us are already high over a series of violent incidents and killings of black americans by police. The democratic president ial Nomineejoe Biden has said the officers in wisconsin must be held accountable. Aleem maqbool reports from wisconsin. Its become a familiar scene. Angry protests after the Police Shooting of a black man. This time, its wisconsin, where in the early evening, officers had been called to deal with a domestic disturbance. In mobile phone video, 29 year old jacob blake is seen Walking Around his car, followed by officers with their weapons drawn. As he opens the door, an officer pulls on his shirt and several shots are heard. Onlookers start screaming and the car ho
Hello to you. The National Guard is to be deployed in the us state of wisconsin, where protests continue after police shot a black man, who was unarmed. Video posted online appears to show jacob blake, 29, father of three, being shot in the back. Hes in a serious condition in hospital. Tensions in the us are high over Police Brutality and racism after a series of violent incidents against black americans. The democratic president ial nominee, joe biden, said the officers in wisconsin must be held accountable. Aleem maqbool reports from wisconsin. Its become a familiar scene. Angry protests after the Police Shooting of a black man. This time, its wisconsin, where in the early evening, officers had been called to deal with a domestic disturbance. In mobile phone video, 29 year old jacob blake is seen Walking Around his car, followed by officers with their weapons drawn. As he opens the door, an officer pulls on his shirt and several shots are heard. Onlookers start screaming and the car
Of kenosha in wisconsin following viole nt protests on sunday sparked by the Police Shooting of an unarmed black man, jacob blake. The governor of wisconsin has deployed the National Guard to help regulate protests. Video posted online appears to show the 29 year old father of three being shot in the back. Hes in serious condition in hospital. Tensions in the country are already high over a series of violent incidents and killings of black americans by police. The democratic president ial nominee, joe biden, has said the officers in wisconsin must be held accountable. Aleem maqbool reports from wisconsin. Its become a familiar scene. Angry protests after the Police Shooting of a black man. This time, its wisconsin, where in the early evening, officers had been called to deal with a domestic disturbance. In mobile phone video, 29 year old jacob blake is seen Walking Around his car, followed by officers with their weapons drawn. As he opens the door, an officer pulls on his shirt and sev