threats. but this is wild that we re having this discussion, particularly as it goes down to election, local election officials and pollworkers and people like that being threatened. these are traditionally people who may be democrats, they may be republicans, they may not have party afailation, but they are the most civic-minded people. they feel that it s their responsibility to ensure free and fair election in this country, which is something that has been done for a very long time. and we ve yet invented this problem, and now we re threatening the very people who have kept these safe elections safe. in georgia, it was pretty clear. it s like colorado or like arizona where actual officials said the election was free and fair and free of fraud. and yet we have these people running on these platforms and perpetuating these lies. and not only do we have candidates running on this platform. we re seeing people far up on the republican party actually targeting these positions. my job
corner basically, and people continue to support the big lie. and they re running for office, various offices around the country. it underscores the point that congress has made very little progress in passing voting rights legislation this year. the house has, the senate hasn t. meanwhile, election workers and pollworkers have faced threats and harassment from conspiracy theorist. security protection is requested after receiving threats over her election security. secretary griswold, thanks for joining us. we spent a lot of time in the last couples talks about election security and particularly what goes on in colorado. but this last week as it relates to the january 6th committee investigation and the candidates who are running for office, including former senator david perdue who s running in georgia basically on the platform that
later it says their work whose work? he left wing groups corporatists and democrat populists. they recruited armies of pollworkers and got millions of people to vote by mail for first time, successfully pressures social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation. you can see how partisan it is, i am reading this to you, so you can recall what was done. that helped americans know how vote count would unfold in days or weeks, and preventing trump s conspiracy theor false claims from getting more traction. this whole article is about
to limit ballot dropboxes in a way that could hurt their own voters. i think this is something to be looking at as we go into 2022. trump literally told people in georgia don t go to the polls, don t vote. but when they need voters to show up in a midterm election, they need these low-propensity white voters who trump brought out of the woodwork. are they going to show up when it s harder for them to vote, too? it s also something that the white house does feel like it has to counter. you ve seen them focus more on the issue of voting rights, especially as they have faced some calls from civil rights activists who really use the bully pulpit and also mobilize democrats around the issue of access to the ballot. vice president kamala harris, this is really a dominant theme for her. and she s been holding these listening sessions with election workers, pollworkers and officials, as well as black civil rights leaders and also