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Anderson Cooper 360

Georgia lawmakers move to restrict voting access

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Georgia Republicans sped a sweeping elections bill into law that imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water. In President Biden’s first White House news conference he said he will “do anything” in his power to halt efforts to restrict voting rights. CNN Political Commentator Van Jones tells Anderson Cooper the new law is “an attack on democracy and civil rights.” Plus, Erika and Ellen Mahoney join AC360 to remember their dad and husband, Kevin Mahoney, who was one of the ten lives lost when a gunman opened fire in a Boulder grocery store. Airdate: March 25, 2021 Guests: Van Jones Erika and Ellen Mahoney To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. We begin with breaking news.

0:03.1

George's governor laid this evening signing Dracone a new voter registration measures

0:07.0

into law, a law based on a lie. The legislation's preamble is really or well-earned. It says

0:13.4

the law is meant to address, quote, lack of electric confidence in the election system.

0:19.2

Gee, I wonder where that came from.

0:22.3

George's 2020 election results were counted. They were recounted and they were counted

0:26.8

again. No meaningful fraud was uncovered. The results were certified and attested to

0:31.4

numerous times, including by George's Republican Trump supporting Secretary of State.

0:35.9

In short, any, quote, lack of electric confidence, unquote, stems from all the lying liars

0:42.2

telling lies about the election. What's more, one of those liars, former Trump attorney

0:47.1

Sidney Powell, is now all but admitting to being a liar in her own court filings to avoid

0:52.4

being sued massively. Her defense against defamation claims is that no reasonable person would

0:57.6

accept her post-election statements as fact. Seems like a lot of elected officials are ahead

1:03.8

tonight. How the big election lie is driving voter registration or voter restriction legislation

1:09.4

measures nationwide and how far the Biden administration may be willing to go to oppose

1:13.6

them. First, are Diane Gallagher with what's in the new Georgia law, Diane?

1:20.0

And Anderson, look, this is a massive bill that has now become law that literally changes

1:25.0

almost every aspect of Georgia elections from top to bottom. But the parts of it that

1:30.0

have been focused on the most are those that would basically restrict ballot access and

1:35.2

particularly restrict ballot access for voters of color. Some of those points are now requiring

1:41.4

ID for absentee voting instead of what Georgia was doing before, which is signature match.

1:47.6

They're limiting drop boxes to only being inside early voting locations and they're making

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