turnout this weekend, mtv working with that parkland student effort you may have heard about and artists like mclemore and fat joe as well as grammy award winning singer ashanti who joins me live in a moment, and we don t have to wait until tuesday to find out if young people are voting right now. polls do show a surge. take the tight race in georgia. early youth vote has jumped there compared to the last midterms. a similar explosion in texas where they had 118,000 in the last midterms and it s now jumped four times that. take tennessee, which is another state people are watching. a 760% spike to 97,000 turnout from youth voters. we turn now to singer/songwriter ashanti. she s part of mtv s plus one the vote campaign, which is doing a lot of work on this. thanks for joining. what are you saying to your many fans and your young fans about all this? hey, guys, please get out there and vote if you want to
as much as every student is in danger and not targeted more because of. my research socioeconomic status. to be able to use my of my relative safety and my voice to make this happen i also think it s really important that we re here. today even though we ve got out like in addition to being out here two weeks ago and again next saturday because i think that. the consistency in student effort especially in the wake of park owens is something that we ve needed for a long time on this issue and we haven t seen in the wake of other issues are you hopeful that the politicians are going to listen to you because it s not the first time that there is a movement for stricter gun control laws i am hopeful. like i was saying i think the consistency. is really crucial and i think is building momentum that has been able to be felt for a long time because of the fatigue the exposure fatigue and the desensitisation that people feel towards issues of gun violence because it happened so often. but i
me to be here because i can there are a lot of people that either because there s too much on the line with their school doesn t support them they can t or because they re too far away but you know people across the country are speaking out today and i think it s really important for me to use my for village as someone who you know is only in danger as much as every student is in danger and not targeted because of. socioeconomic status. to be able to use my and my relative safety and my voice to make this happen i also think it s really important that we re here. today even though we ve got out like in addition to being out here two weeks ago and again next saturday because i think that. the consistency in student effort especially in the wake of parker is something that we ve needed for a long time on this issue and we haven t seen in the wake of other issues are you
you to be here today. i think first and foremost it s important for me to be here because i can there are a lot of people that either because there s too much on the line with their school on national doesn t support them they can t or because they re too far away but you know people across the country are speaking out today and i think it s really important for me to use. as someone who you know is only in danger as much as every student is in danger and not targeted and why because of. my research my second socioeconomic status. to be able to use my of my relative safety and my voice to make this happen i also think it s really important that we re here. today even though we ve got out like in addition to being out here two weeks ago and again next saturday because i think that. the consistency in student effort especially in the wake of parco is something that we ve needed for
spent 4 hours and 32 minutes talking about trump scandals and wikileaks spent 36 minutes. that s a one to seven ratio. you cannot deny that there is some sort of bias going on in the media. then the other side is rigged according to the voters on election day. pew research in february 2012 said one in eight voter registrations are inaccurate. they are no longer valuable. that s 146 million registered voters in the united states today. 1.8 million has some sort of fraud or something wrong with their voter registration. solution, voter i.d. laws. that s why republicans are pushing so hard for it. yeah, except they don t like when you register for your license, you register to vote. these are complex issues. christine? the justice center in 2007 and the student effort that spent a year on this philadelphia enquirer. the idea of widespread corruption in elections is