it s about who gets to count the votes. joining us now is civil rights attorney, former prosecutor david henderson. and michael wallbun, author of the fight to vote out tomorrow. michael, your book is timely. it looks at the voter restrictions and suppression in the country and what s being done to make voting more difficult and more politicized. what are you most concerned about? well, this is a big moment in history. we ve been fighting about who gets to vote, who gets a seat at the table of democracy from the country s beginning. but what we re see right now with the big lie, as you say, with states moving to restrict voting, driven by that big lie, and on top of those voter suppression laws, you might call them election subversion laws, changing who counts the votes and attacking election
defense of democracy and the right to vote this time in florida. well, republicans, nicole, have adopted an all-of-the-above strategy to attacking democracy. they re making it as hard as possible to vote. they re passing extreme gerrymandered maps. they re passing extreme election subversion laws, so they re doing election rigging on the front end and the back end. they re choosing their own electorate through gerrymandering. they re making it harder to vote by restricting ballot access and if that fails, they re determining which votes are counted, which is the whole new voter suppression strategy they re employing and it s really amazing to hear joe manchin and kyrsten sinema say that it would be too partisan and divisive to stop actions that are meant to be partisan and divisive. the entire point of the republican assault on voting is to prevent democrats from winning fair elections, so far from encouraging republicans to become more bipartisan, what