according to your algorithm, you found thousands of voters in georgia was affected by this and prevented from casting ballots last year. how did that happen? that s right. thanks for having me on. what we looked into was the effect of distance to the polls. basically how far do you have to drive from your house to the poll to cast a vote. that affected people s likelihood to vote. 214 voting places closed down after a decision in 2013 made it possible for states that previously had to get preclearance, basically ask the department of justice for help in making changes. that was struck down. once that happened, a lot more voting changes happened in georgia. namely the presecurity close yours. after the 214 presecurities
approve voting changes for any new law they had to pass. same with georgia and alabama. remember, chris, north carolina is basically where the republican party perfected its frankenstein monster, where all the craziest policies originate from. so the lame duck they originated in 2016. that s when the republican legislature stripped the democratic governor of power in 2016, tried to take away his ability to appoint majorities on the state board of elections, the very state board of election that is now investigating the fraud in bladen county is unconstitutional because of how the republican legislature took away authority from the democratic governor. so the power grabs we re seeing in wisconsin, in michigan, in ohio, and now, again, in north carolina, these were exported by
of places like bladen county might be a place that has preclearance. it seems like the place that should have it. extra scrutiny. there were pockets, large pockets, huge pockets where there was some stuff going on that was really not kosher and the federal government came in to specifically look at it. that s absolutely right, chris. 40 counties in north carolina were subject to the pre-clearance provision of the voting rights act. but essentially the state had to approve voting changes for any new law they had to pass. same with georgia and alabama. remember, chris, north carolina is basically where the republican party perfected its frankenstein monster, where all the craziest policies originate from. so the lame duck they originated in 2016. that s when the republican legislature stripped the democratic governor of power in
the these issues and the need for us to keep doing this work. here s the deal. if, in fact, this lawsuit, and i haven t seen the contours of it. it was a lawsuit brought under the voting rights act and it s determined and found that georgia engaged in intentional discrimination in the various schemes that we saw in the year leading up to this election, it is possible for the parties to ask for georgia to be bailed in, and the bail in provision remains untouched by the supreme court s decision in the shelby county versus holder case, and that part of the voting rights act allows parties to ask that a state or a county or a jurisdiction be placed under preclearance for a violation of the voting rights act and under that bail in procedure the judge then has continuing jurisdiction so that if the jurisdiction seeks to make any voting changes, they would essentially have to do what they would have had to do under preclearance. it s not been done often. i was involved in a case in arkansas i
what i think is a distraction from the work of both parties to sort of put together. quickly, josh, before we wrap this up, i mean, clearly a lot of people want this done. millions of dollars have been raised. i mean, what do you make of that? there s a lot of people who are, have a lot of sore feelings after this election and i think that is totally legitimate. and people have the right to use their dollars to vote and they have the right to use the dollars to support the recount. no one is disputhiing that but t the viewers know the result is the same and not clear what the ultimate benefit is. if there were evidence, people would be all for it, but until we see some evidence, it does seem like a bit of sour grapes. that s what the recount is about, pamela. let s see what happens and guess what, what if the voting changes and what if the results change. that s the point right there.