this
panel on the bus who's a
um... rolling stone uses the into the
released a magazine little correspondent
for the nation magazine as well and the
author of thirteen
donkeys uh... but his most recent piece
in rolling stone released on dot com the
g_o_p_ war on voting critically
fascinating ari welcome welcome to the
program take on paper heaven deduct
great to have you with us
the story
that many americans have been hearing
for some years now
myself i actually his bid day largely
echoing through the whole
uh... media severe
there has been enormous
voting that fraud going on
uh... illegal immigrants uh... in
particular hispanics are showing up in
large numbers at the polls to vote that
of people poor people are voting two
three five ten twelve times dead people
showing up to vote
that this is a crisis of biblical
proportions in the united states that
threatens democracy itself
but there was just drying criminal
conspiracy around a run largely by
afro-americans
called acorn
and uh... it has
finally successfully than excised this
cancer from our body politic but we have
to take the next step to prevent any of
this kind of horror forever happening
again
tonight in like characterized the
the narrative
the the setup narrative accurately yeah
that's been completed senate narrative
which of course is i'm sure we'll talk
about is a apollo y
the fact is that republicans have been
talking about this bogeyman of voter
fraud
for awhile edit
intensify
after the election of brocco pablo which
may be
conservatives viewed as stolen by a
chord and that that laid the groundwork
for this unprecedented push
to rewrite the nation's
election laws in advance for the twenty
ten about twenty twelve election and to
really try to suppressed uh... number
of democratic leaning voters were very
voters like a bronco palmer his majority
in two thousand eight from voting again
for obama
in twenty twelve and the thing about
vote fraud is in person voter
impersonation which is what keylogger
designed to crack down on does it really
convicted and there it is uh... great
study by the bread and butter that found
of voters more likely be hit by
lightning than they are to impersonate
another voter
lines in fact i understand about seven
hundred people here in america or
are hit by lightning
and about twenty people here in america
are actually charge whiz devoting
illegally
well kinda traffic department during the
bush administration made prosecuting
voter fraud
a top priority
and between two thousand two and two
thousand seven
went three hundred million people voted
they prosecute only eighty six cases of
voter fraud and most of those were cases
people didn't even realize they were
ineligible to vote had total wasn't even
part of a deep-rooted conspiracy
q eighty three insisted they found that
it is really
it incredibly
drink our audience solution to a problem
that doesn't exist right
more more people
die from
drinking too much water or something
that's not the right example they you
know i've been struck by lightning as it
certainly do it
and so
the republicans have sold this idea of i
think quite successfully they're on base
and even with some success to
people who are politically a naive herb
not which really well informed
and if they're using that sales job now
pass laws to protect us from the dock
with these hor
of uh... twenty people a year voting
when their you know ineligible to
they're not in the great state of the
not a resident of they were a felon and
they didn't know that they couldn't be
boat when their film
or whatever may be
uh... where people like uh... in coulter
who
registered to vote in the region's house
'cause she didn't want her own home
address to be a matter of public record
or maybe never on the who grew
is richard evans
sons uh... unfinished basement in
massachusetts but with a mansion in
california
the best my knowledge do those have been
prosecute for voter fraud in any case
now the republicans are offering us a
solution
well do you think twenty created a voter
product you mentioned abt really kept
private
a crackdown and a whole phil rewriting
of the election laws back to prevent
millions of people from voting and
they're doing that
bite making it harder to register to
vote making it harder for groups to
register people to vote
cutting back on early voting requiring
these photo i_d_'s that ten percent of
u_s_ citizens including eighty percent
of young people and twenty five person
at african-americans don't have riding a
lot of so that people who have ideas for
example student doctor american we won't
be able to vote because the idea to have
our computer ineligible
states like texas saying you can't have
a tune i think that you could have a gun
permits
and then preventing acappella group
served their time the permit voting in
states like florida
and i would just inactivity dip in
franchising hundreds of thousands of
voters they have a situation where it
all pat opti seemingly disconnected
measures all add up to this of relief
sweeping attempt to reap the electorate
for the twenty twelve election aditya
deal for a while back in the washington
post com if that's what happened in a
quote unquote emergency emerging
democracy we would condemn it as
election rating but that exactly what's
going on here right now
from two twenty collection by the g_o_p_
well you know
see the minority this is the country
where
a presidential election was decided
in the state of the brother of the guy
running for president in two thousand
um... on the supreme court where they
were members of the by the supreme court
who had several members whose family
members were working out for
address their peripheral in the campaign
that he doesn't want
i mean it's it's not like we haven't had
third world politics for some time in
the sense that that that type in the
article that it's incredibly ironic that
that uh...
party that wanted to go to the russian
despite having blocked the popular vote
is now on the tour at the beach about
voter fraud because it anyone won an
election illegitimately it was george w_
bush in two thousand
not drop a bomb belgrade but that's the
that's the point of a major
meal katherine harris successfully not
sixteen eighty thousand
african-americans off the phone
also feels really pulls in florida
by claiming that they were felons when
in fact they weren't they just had names
that were similar to texas felons
the common african-american names
under that work jennine i got them
within the margin of error worry if they
could stop the actual statewide count
i think he declared ridge bush the
winner which they did and
they'll basically steal the election so
now
in red
in nineteen eighty thousand off list ako
hundred eighty thousand off so they
wanted me any question you happily
n_b_c_ scrapping a battleground states
like ohio
like florida
alike with constant that are going to be
very close to twenty twelve
at every window then what republics are
trying to ensure
is basically can secure their own
reelection
before anyone voted though it doesn't
matter if economy improves it doesn't
matter hit rock about with a better in
the polls it doesn't matter if it's
michelle bachman rick carrier mit romney
they want this electorate in place and
equipment that they could not rocket
science they want to twenty twelve
eleven to look more like twenty cabin
two thousand eight
and their writing the rules and such a
way to ensure that that the electric
that turns out yet between and
redistricting
ncl jewel still style in the united zero
people vote i just heard consequence
this is an effort to detective
distracting firmly for market democratic
reason i mean up the republic of people
about that
but the fact that we're making it so
much more difficult
for people to vote is what's really ari
we have we have thirty seconds left what
can people do about this order
sure well they protect the educated
outdoor rock the boat go to the dreaded
set a record all the league of women
voters all those different groups that
are doing this work find out whether
they have a right at the part of what it
takes
to get the right at the effect have to
be aware of this issue before you can do
anything about it and that's where the
recently wrote this article not try to
get out there
four people realize that they can't vote
in the next election is to be a whole
lot of people who are going to show up
and in november two thousand twelve
indecent and sent away soon hopefully
i'll be giving unsealed balance
gap a little bit about the cause people
be aware of it before i could actually
do think pills
department striking this stuff done this
extension the
jim crow laws they could do that because
department to review all the paper under
the purview of the voting rights act
there in the prosecuting that
right now they haven't been to a
corrective
recently of but there are signs that
they're looking at this time very
closely so that's another resource
pretty false i had to be a number of
losses it's like missouri florida
wisconsin
characters but alluded to the court well
three heartburn camille doesn't really
stand out from the g_o_p_
war on voting the campaign supported by
the cobras republicans working to
prevent millions of democrats voting
next year thanks eric uh...
