#328 Protect Democracy w/ Anne Tindall
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Anne Tindall is Special Council at the non-partisan group Protect Democracy, where she works to ensure that elections are free and fair, to prevent political violence, and to secure accountability for abuses of power at the federal and state level. In this episode she joins us to talk about the still unsettled results of North Carolina's Supreme Court election from November, and Republican Jefferson Griffin's attempt to convince the courts to throw out sixty thousand ballots in a race where his challenger, incumbent Allison Riggs, won by just 734 votes. Anne explains what makes this case unique in the history of American elections and why it may set a dangerous precedent that could weaken voting rights for citizens across the country regardless of political party.
Click here to read the Electoral Integrity Project data that Anna discussed in this episode.
This conversation was recorded on February 27, 2025. Gary Fletcher edited this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is the road to now. |
| 0:09.4 | Today's guest, Ann Tendell, is coming to the show with an important storyline that's going on right now in North Carolina. |
| 0:16.4 | It has to do with a losing Republican candidate for the Supreme Court seat in North Carolina, |
| 0:23.5 | attempting to have over 60,000 ballots thrown out after the election by claiming that they weren't ever fully registered. |
| 0:32.7 | It might sound confusing, but it's not. |
| 0:35.7 | In short, what's happening right now could have ramifications for Americans in every state and regardless of party. |
| 0:43.0 | So we want you to be aware of it. |
| 0:45.1 | Our guest is Ann Tyndall. |
| 0:46.7 | She's special counsel at the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy, and she is currently working on this situation with them. |
| 0:53.9 | We think this is an important topic, |
| 0:55.9 | and we hope that you learn something from it. Before we get to the conversation, two things. |
| 1:01.4 | First of all, patrons, you're amazing. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you for keeping the show |
| 1:04.9 | going. We couldn't do it without you. Second thing, Road to Now Live, May 29th, Washington, D.C. at the Hamilton Live. |
| 1:13.2 | We've already got the lineup set. We haven't announced it, but you won't be, you're going to be excited. |
| 1:17.1 | I don't be disappointed. You'll be excited when you find out what it is. |
| 1:20.0 | So you might want to go ahead and get some before we announced that and it likely sells out. |
| 1:24.4 | Those tickets are available at live.thehamilton, d.com. We hope to see you guys there. |
| 1:31.6 | Now on to the situation with the Supreme Court race in North Carolina with Protect Democracies and |
| 1:37.0 | Tyndall. Take care. Anne Tyndall, welcome to The Road to Now. |
| 1:44.8 | Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:47.1 | We're excited to have you. We're grateful. |
| 1:50.5 | And we actually, we need you because we need to know about a couple things that are going on in our country right now. |
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