Private into taste and for people that have committed crimes. Social media platforms like facebook and twitter were widely used to organize protests that ultimately toppled longtime leader Omar Al Bashir in april once the military took control for weeks protesters took to the streets demanding the formation of a civilian led government. Since the military crackdown trust between the military and civilians has been damaged but last week progress was made generals and protesters agree to form a joint civilian military ruling body together they plan to install a new government for a transitional period of 3 years oh despite recent violence many civilians say they will keep pushing for change but these pictures that can now be shared on mobile phones prove the path forward could be challenging katia llopis with a gun aljazeera. Or i still ahead on the program the indian women juba to removing that i would say so that menstruation cycles dont interfere that plus. Were in chad where a Nation
Something that voting restrictions could help with. Host lets talk to diane, who is calling from upper darby, pennsylvania, on the democrats line. Diane, good morning. Caller good morning. I have a few questions, but i want to start with this one. Last year and this year when i went to vote for school etc. , we city council, had the same names on certain parts, like maybe for school counselor, for schools. The had the same names on democratic side as they did on the democratic side. ,o, say the name was John Smith John smith was listed on democratic, and then john smith was listed on republican vote. Either it is democratic or republican, not both. It is called a crossover of some kind. I did not vote for anybody that was a crossover. I would like to know is that considered voter manipulation . I saw it last year a little, but this year a lot. There were four names on one vote, and you get to vote for four on school, two on counsel, whatever, and i saw it a lot this year, and it upset
Something that voting restrictions could help with. Host lets talk to diane, who is calling from upper darby, pennsylvania, on the democrats line. Diane, good morning. Caller good morning. I have a few questions, but i want to start with this one. Last year and this year when i went to vote for school etc. , we city council, had the same names on certain parts, like maybe for school counselor, for schools. The had the same names on democratic side as they did on the democratic side. ,o, say the name was John Smith John smith was listed on democratic, and then john smith was listed on republican vote. Either it is democratic or republican, not both. It is called a crossover of some kind. I did not vote for anybody that was a crossover. I would like to know is that considered voter manipulation . I saw it last year a little, but this year a lot. There were four names on one vote, and you get to vote for four on school, two on counsel, whatever, and i saw it a lot this year, and it upset
Magazines segment, democracy under strain. Peter, thank you for being here. Guest thank you for having me on. Host what prompted an eightpa rt series, democracy under strain . Well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. We look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. Partisanship is out of control. Isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. Peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. Host so the most recent piece was entitled block the vote the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america. On voting access, and what did you find . Thet well, i started with vote. Voting is of course the core aspect of democracy. It is how we participate, and there are a lot of issues surrounding voting right now. Is onely Voting Rights that a lot of democrats and republicans are fighting about. The statesnd is that are really going into