them got off with basically a slap on the wrist for their crimes. the dude in forty fort pennsylvania prosecutors dropped the most serious charges against him. the guy who voted for his dozens years dead mother swearing she was alive, he got five years probation. the local republican elected official in ohio who voted for his dead father, he got jail time. he got three days in jail and a $500 fine. and it is worth keeping that context in mind when you also remember the case of crystal mason. we have talked about crystal mason. in 2016, she went to her local polling place in tarrant county, texas, to vote. she voted her name not on the voting rolls there. at the suggestion of a poll worker, miss mason filled out a provisional ballot. she was told basically we are not sure what the problem is, but fill this out. if there is any real problem here, we won t count it but provisionally you can cast this
off of voting rolls and to in many ways orchestrate a way to go back to states rights on voting, which the supreme court decision led to doing. the roberts court several years ago said the civil rights laws needed to be updated and congress needed to update those laws. jon lewis drafted a bill, right now hr-4, much more likely to pass than hr-1, which many democrats said will never pass in its current form and i know there s negotiating going on to figure out what version of that bill can pass. any specifics about moving hr-4 first? i know you ve spoken with joe manchin as well? we met with joe manchin, eight of us a couple weeks ago and he convened 13 republicans that met with us by zoom.
on friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the wile in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters. in addition to that, this saturday, today, there are several members on the local election boards that are being taken off the boards for no apparent reason, other than the republican party thinks that they shouldn t be there, and they ve been empowered, where they actually can replace local election boards with sb-202. so they re moving very quickly, expeditiously, around making sure that they create an administrative process to marginalize voters in the state of georgia, as i think a punitive measure for black voters showing up and showing out in record numbers last year. and so it has already began, which is why part of what we a
impactful as some of its critics had claimed. what have you seen in the last few months? let me say what we ve seen even in the last week. on friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the while in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters. in addition to that, this saturday, today, there are several members on the local election boards that are being taken off the boards for no apparent reason, other than the republican party thinks that they shouldn t be there, and they ve been empowered, where they actually can replace local election boards with sb-202. so they re moving very quickly, expeditiously, around making sure that they create an administrative process to marginalize voters in the state
absolutely. this past friday, before we kicked off our initiative, the secretary of state announced he was purging 100,000 voters from the voting rolls. now we re seeing in one county, a majority african-american county in southwest georgia, they re attempting to close polling sites there. in addition to that they re actually pulling people off the board of elections. this is a blatant abuse of power and we need federal legislation to stop that, to actually expand some protection, and we need to make sure the courts are aligned. michael waldman, is there a way to get at some of these provisions around the country that appears to actually manipulate the outcome of the election by the way they deal with the processing of votes and the challenging of counts? people can call out and try to stop them from getting passed. and they need to have the