broadly enough, they would prevent the rise of a corrupt person that ultimately could use those powers for his own benefit. and to undermine democracy. but that constitution is only as elastic as the american people are willing to keep it in place. and the danger going into 24, susan s right. americans, the american people stopped donald trump, the most important political coalition is the ones that, the coalition that threw donald trump out of office in 2020, but if enough americans say we want to see him back, the future of the country is in dire straits. whew. well, all of that is a lot to take to heart as we head into the weekend. susan and david, thank you for starting us off tonight. and please stay safe. coming up, have from voting rolls to freezing temperatures, it s tough out here if you live in the state of texas. i ll talk to a democratic state representative about issues currently facing people in the lone star state when we come back. he lone star state when we come b
allowed to vote again in that state, but she says that nobody ever told her that that particular conviction meant that she couldn t vote. and her county elections board admits in writing that despite her conviction, they never actually took her off the voting rolls, a probation officer with the tennessee department of corrections, even wrote her a note filled out an official certificate saying that ms. moses was eligible to vote. ms. moses turned in that certificate from the probation officer, along with her voter registration application, and for that grave crime, she was just sentenced in tennessee. what was her sentence? she got six years in prison. that has just happened this week in tennessee. what s the big difference between pam moses in tennessee and all of those other guys, who actually cast illegalballs in illegal ballots in the names of relatives they knew were dead, all those were probation
This story from the Associated Press was published in 2012. An initial list cited in this report of 180,000 names was whittled to 2,625 and ultimately to 85,.
dead people off the voting rolls, they are somehow to her antidemocratic because they believe illegal immigrants should vote in the biggest threats facing america look like this guy. the coors light trespasser who took selfies in the capital on january 6th. see that guy? that guy and others like him are going to throw us into a totalitarian event. pathetic. the reason democrats are so rabid about the freedom to vote act today, in practical terms it would be a democrat incumbent protection racket. among other things it would bypass state authority by nationalizing rules for voter registration and mail-in ballots. that means bye-bye meaningful election security laws was
race was secretary of state at the time and was engaged in really aggressive what appeared to be voter suppression tactics including throwing huge numbers of georgians off the voting rolls in a way that seemed to benefit his own candidacy in which he was on the ballot. when you so narrowly lost you famously were contentious about the loss saying he didn t necessarily think it had been a fair fight. stepping back now a few years out of that and seeing what s happened both in georgia and around the country around the issues of fairness in elections, how do you feel about that now looking back at it, and how do you want people to understand how that dynamic affected the race the first time? 2018, i d spent more than a year traveling the state, but i had also spent ten years, 11 years in the state legislature. i had been working on voting rights since i was 17. i had watched. in fact, i had battled with the then secretary of state over his egregious and aggressive voter suppression activ