prevented election officials from proactively mailing out absentee ballot applications. joining us, the author of that reporting, new york times domestic correspondent nick corsaniti. nick, there wasn t any fraud in georgia in the drop boxes or the absentee ballots, was there? no, there was not. so tell me i mean, this was a bombshell and it really it sort of cuts the euphoria of the early voting numbers with this reality check. there s been an 81% drop in absentee mail voting. yeah. and when you look at what sv-202 the georgia voting law was set out to do and the atmosphere in which it came into being, it was after mail-in volting was embraced widely by democrats, by voters of color and kind of helped flip georgia blue in 2020. so the law that was passed last year significantly limited drop boxes, made it so that election officials and the secretary of state couldn t proactively mail
war and they love talking about how, again, as we were just discussing in 2020 they say things went awry with no evidence and they ve used that conspiracy theory to change laws and make it harder for people to vote. it s amazing. nick, patricia, alexi, thank you so much for spending time with us today. nick, thank you for your reporting. ahead for us, the deposition of a top member of the murdoch family in that $1.6 billion with a b lawsuit against fox. where dominion s defamation case stands after so much disinformation. that story s next. after so much disinformation that story s next. talling windo, charging something like a hundred bucks a window when other guys were charging four to five-hundred bucks. he just didn t wanna do that. he was proud of the price he was charging. my dad instilled in me, always put the people before the money. be proud of offering a good product at a fair price. i think he d be extremely proud of me, yeah.
smartmatic software, a back door is capable of flipping votes. you know the votes in dominion, they say, are counted in foreign countries. we have evidence of how they flip the votes, how it was designed to flip the votes. nick, just take me through the stakes here for fox. well, this is really important, nicolle. it s not against the law to make an honest mistake in journalism or on tv. and thank god for that, right? what we have with fox, though, is a pattern of having these claims echoed and repeated for weeks and weeks after being told they were wrong. at one point dominion started sending producers and bookers a list of factual assertions and rebuttals to stop doing this. what today s testimony from lachlan murdoch could reveal is how far you have this knowledge went. what we don t know in suing fox as a corporation, it s important to show fox took responsibility
what are you hearing from sort of operatives about what they need tomorrow in terms of same-day vote when you look at the mountain of early vote? but i know we re going to talk to nick corsani, the mail-in vote has all but dried up because of the changes there. just take me through what the targets are for same-day vote. it s interesting. and you and i both know this very well. the way that campaigns operate has changed so much from when we were on the other side of one another in 2004. it used to be that republicans would run up these huge totals in absentee vote, democrats would because of soles to the polls and weekend voting and younger voters would run up big totals in early vote and then it was sort of a race to the finish on election day. it really is now for the herschel walker campaign, they ve kind of put it all on tomorrow. right? like they have to get a huge turnout possibly in the rain. it s chilly down here. it s not like a warm atlanta, you know, week. it s raining. an
happening in georgia. we re going to lead off, though, with senator warnock. and by the way, the invitation is still open to herschel. herschel walker, you wanted to debate me. brother, come on down. there s a seat right here. [ cheers and applause ] there s a crowd behind me. they would like to hear from you. so manuel s tavern. everybody knows it. you ll get a good reception. some great food. come on down, herschel. the water s fine. my name is joy. there s nothing tobe afraid of. i ll order the uber if you get a yes. there you go. that s a deal. joy reid. thank you so much. thank you so much. we ll all be watching you at 6:00 at 7:00. patricia and alexi are sticking around. we re going to get to that other reporting we re talk about. we ll be joined by nick course nooeti still ahead as well. as we ve been discussing early voting in georgia s senate runoff has been strong. it s not the whole story. how georgia s new voting law that joy just mentioned, signed by governor kemp,