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Early, its made things a little smoother today, but still expecting a big turnout. If you havent voted, avoid the long lines later today. Thats a message i expect youll make at did beginning and end of our segment. How are things going in california . Its been fairly smooth in the bay area. Tell us in terms of the voting and ballot counting how its going. Theres a fewishes here issues here. There are the two big steps weve taken. Every active registered voter in california received a vote by mail in advance. 22 million voters on the rolls, more than 12 million ballots cast as of midnight last night. Great return. That means theres nearly 10 Million People who play be voting today. Maybe they were returning it by mail, a great first choice, but voting in person, bring your mask to keep voters and poll workers safe. The polls are open until 8 00 p. M. Its been light. We havent seen too many huge lines. We know its always busiest within the last couple of hours. Tell us if you expect to h
Have ordered a copy of the book, please consider grabbing one nationally, internationally, Curbside Pickup thats open now at limited capacity. Heads up, weekends are busy. The share guidelines and also some to the books. Easy access to purchase. Remember your purchase goes towards our staff. Our guest for the night will be joining us on the screen. We will take questions from the audience to please submit your questions below. If youre looking below all the way to the right, lucy little bubbles, thats where you should put them. We will try to keep track of all the questions. Also, if youre watching via facebook, submit your questions on the comment field and well go from there. I like give a warm welcome to our guest for the night, eddie, phd is an associate professor of Higher Education and organizational change at ucla. College president and the struggle for black students published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter at eddie. Also phd, historian of black wome
And welcome across town where all things are considered. Im peter lavelle. What does the Election Results today . Tell us about the state of american politics. There was no blue wave. Instead, there was a red ripple instead of calls for reconciliation. There are those looking to punish trump supporters. One step forward 2 steps back. There is gus these issues and more. Im joined by my guest in syracuse. We have how he is a former candidate for the Green Party Nomination for u. S. President and in atlanta, he crosses around she is a us independent president ial candidate. All right, cross up rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate. Ok, so why dont we go to you 1st here . Where do we stand right now . , a little more than a week outside of the election. We have the g. O. P. , a lot of and most conservatives refusing to recognize a job, i missed president elect with some cretin states. There hasnt been any vote certification yet. And on top of
Wanted to start out by sharing with you the partnership between the National Parks conservatives association, and the association of study of life and history began more than 28 years ago. It was then at that irena webster, and govern spencer dug, joined with the woman who would become my first boss at ncaa, i had to get right. Had the vision to join forces to support an enhanced the work that the National Parks service is doing in order to protect the African American experience. Sadly, i had to give passed away earlier this year. I want to take a moment at the start of this conversation about the preservation of the history of the struggle to achieve black Voting Rights, to remember my boss, my friend and a true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make congress this survey shun and preservation organizations like and pca, more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive. Thank you diana. Now, for our panel today, folks are going to be aware of the history of the struggle of Voting