Released a recommendation, we were looking at long lines and how to make voting places more efficient. They made it clear that we should be looking at all the potential sources of dysfunction at the polling place. The fundamental executive order was that we ought to have an electoral process that is sufficiently run and with the appropriate safeguards so no ineligible voters vote. Voters should be able to cast their ballots in a reasonably efficient way. We ought to have confidence that their vote would be correctly stored in tabulated. A Bipartisan Commission was established with that purpose. Host ensuring only eligible voters voted, how much of that was part of what you discussed and what you explored . Guest certainly any wellrun polling place, electoral system focuses on all aspects of what is required for legal votes to be cast and counted, and that includes systems for processing voters and ensuring eligible voters are casting ballots. That go to have the it was part of a comple
And produced a final report with recommendations. The purpose was to look at the how we of long lines and could make polling places more efficient so voters didnt have ofwait very long periods time. The establishing commission made it clear that we should be looking at all the potential sources of dysfunction and potential reforms at the polling place and the fundamental piece of the commission or the executive order was that we ought to have an electoral process that is sufficiently one and has appropriate safeguards so that only eligible voters vote and no unnecessary impediments should be put in the path of voters. They should be able to cast their ballots in a recently efficient way, taking into account that we want to serve them the way the biggest and best companies serve their customers and ought to have confidence their vote would be correctly received, stored, and tabulated. Ensuring that only eligible voters vote. Voter fraud was part of what you looked into . What youof that
Effective how we ultimately classified . At this point if the questions on there, at this point was to be classified openly as white, correct . That depends what omb decides. Thats something we are waiting. A good question. One of the standards that the office of management and budget is contemplating right now is whether mena should be a new minimum category. So they are going to make the decision whether that is the case or not. Right now the Census Bureau classifies mena under white and thats how we are proceeding forward until were told otherwise. We are going to move on to the other speakers and then well opened it up for a discussion as to before i know the pdc has been working on this issue literally since were founded about 37, 40 some years ago and i got involved when he came on board but i can tell you these guys test everything to death. They literally test where they put commas, so you may put this is a slow, arduous process, and it is, but as i say, well get there. Next i
We are here with the editorinchief, megan murphy. It is all about the year ahead. You talk about it in your editors letter. Can you believe we are done with 2017 . Megan are we . [laughter] carol not quite. Megan so much is going on. Having come from washington to be the editorinchief. The political year, around the world. So many things in 2017 that we would not have predicted. In 2018, people doubled on and will predict things. The most interesting thing in 2018, we are going to double down and predict things that may or may not happen. Regardless of where you stand, you have seen tremendous destruction, tremendous populism, things we might not like to see sometimes. An underlying label about economic growth, lifting cards, we are on a bit over a rising tide. Whether that will be screwed up we have yet to see. Things might be better than you think. Carol is that what you want readers to walk away with . Megan i want readers to walk away and think that i have learned a lot of new stuf
Carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes Political Tension in zimbabwe with reports of military vehicles on the streets of the capital. More pressure on on so in sochi over the right hander crisis the u. S. Secretary of state is due in may and more in the coming hours. The u. S. Attorney general faces tough questions about russia and Donald Trumps president ial campaign plus. Reported from austria on the return of the would know all the toting about toys on construction. There is tension and uncertainty in zimbabwe tonight with the ports a military vehicles on the streets of the capital harare but zimbabwes ambassador to south africa is dismissing reports that a coup against president Robert Mugabe is underway he told the. Borders news agency that the government remains intact several images have been posted on social media showing unusual military activity inside the capital tension the country has been rising since the head of the army criticized