Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee out objection the resolutions are adopted and motions approved unanimously. Could you read the memoriams. Clerk yes, mr. President. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. I have, on behalf of supervisor stefani, for the late ms. Linda squires growing. President yee ok. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee thank you, madam clerk. There are no further business, go ahead and go out there and do your civic engagement. We are adjourned. [roll call]. Clerk we have a quorum. Thank you. Id also like to announce that the commission will have a different order of business at this meeting, and we will hold the closed session first before moving into our regular business. Madam secretary, will you read the closed session prior to Public Comment . Clerk yes, maam, president. And prior
In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, but also because its also really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just like how we started our discussion of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations processes and taking a relative
Supreme court we want to rule voting just as youre prepared for any efforts republicans make in any court and the states to advance the absurd theory that the president is ours last night. Theyre watching our to International Coverage of the 2020 u. S. President ial election my names donald quarter and ill be joining you for the program its certainly a nail biter so lets jump right in the fate of the u. S. Presidency rests in the hands of half a dozen states still counting votes right now results they are hanging in the balance and could still go either way making both donald trump and joe biden confident theyll win the white house earlier the democratic candidate gave a prefix 3 speech of sorts while the president took his case to twitter caleb maupin explains. Joe biden gave remarks that seemed somewhat contradictory he emphasized that he was not declaring victory but he believed he was on the road to a win biden said he will plan to lead the country in healing the wounds and divisio
What the think about this . Should all states have less mandates . Should no state have mask mandates and risk more infections . Do you support or oppose must mandates . We will open up our regular lines. That means democrats, we want to hear from you at 2027488000. Beublicans, your line will 2027488001. Independents we want to hear from you at 2027488002. You can always text us at 2027488003, and were always reading on social media, on cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, the novel to bevirus is said hitting its second or third wave in the United States as more people are coming down with the disease. We are seeing around the country different states doing Different Things when it comes to the coronavirus. Aarp,now according to there are 34 states and the District Of Columbia who are mandating Face Coverings in public. We want to know whether you actually support this. We want to hear from you on this issue. We are going to go straight to our phone lines. E, wh
[laughter] natalie, you previously worked for npr and are now working with a get out the Vote Organization you have told us about. We are proud your supporting democracy and you are doing social media. Democracy, media and the public sphere. Ryan is in the process of building an app to tell how long polling lines are. Bringing in the democracy, media, and the public sphere. We need those apps. My husband is in line now, a 70minute wait where he is. Both of you get a hat. They each get a hat that says cspan 2020 on the front. On the back, unfiltered. [laughter] you each get a hat. You each get something that you clean screens and microfiber. That is right. And then, very handy, always needed, a pen. [applause] thank you, both, for your work promoting democracy, media, and the public sphere, which is why we are all here today, right . Today we are going to talk about political advertising in campaigns. This is from chapter 13 in our book. There is much to discuss. Something that came to