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The Hartmann Report

IS THIS THE TIME TO DEMAND AN AFFIRMATIVE LEGAL RIGHT TO VOTE?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Does this election prove that we need to make voting an affirmative legal right? How far have Republican voter purges and dirty tricks shifted the vote? 

Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, and author of "Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America" shares news on a recent victory for Texas voters and more.

Philanthropist and founder of Next Gen America- Tom Steyer- joins Thom to reflect on how the pending election could impact the planet- and what we must do about it!

And reporter Trimmel Gomes gets us caught up with the vote in Florida.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:16.8

It started.

0:17.8

Trump says, go to the polls, watch the polls, let them know you're there, stuff like that,

0:22.8

right?

0:23.8

Now this is Charlotte Agenda is the Twitter handle promoting the city of Charlotte.

0:30.0

So this is like, you know, the Twitter feed of the city.

0:33.3

As several prominent local female politicians spoke outside of precinct 212, one of the largest

0:39.4

democratic polling places in the state, now here you've got prominent female politicians

0:44.9

outside speaking in an event.

0:48.6

Remember Gabby Gifford?

0:52.3

Outside speaking in an event, guy walks up with a gun, shoots her in the head.

0:56.5

Okay.

0:57.5

So back to the story.

0:58.5

As several prominent female local politicians spoke at precinct 212, one of the largest

1:02.9

democratic polling places in the state, the event was cut short when a maskless white

1:07.7

man opened carrying a gun, showed up and began to circle the property.

1:14.5

They whisked away the congresswoman, Adams and the mayor, Liles, and poll watchers said

1:20.0

the man had been there for nearly an hour, apparently waiting for this opportunity.

1:26.9

The Charlotte Agenda Twitter account said North Carolina is an open carry state, so technically

1:31.9

he's not breaking the law.

1:33.3

Still voters and volunteers here describe this as voter intimidation.

1:38.3

Tim Carmichael, a poll watcher, told the Charlotte Agenda quote, if they saw a black man

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