LONG LINES AND BROKEN VOTING MACHINES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 March 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Long Lines and Broken Machines the Election Norm (w/ Sylvia Albert)
Common Cause's Sylvia Albert joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the major ramifications of the elections with broken and intentionally failing infrastructure, like voting machines that do not work, apps like the one in Iowa that failed and the closing of voter registration facilities and even of places to vote. Voter disenfranchisement may well play a major role in the 2020 Primaries and the 2020 general election. Plus the latest news on Bill Barr and insightful listener calls.
For the Book Club Thom reads from his latest work, The Hidden History of the War on Voting and also Thomas Frank's Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Sylvia Albert is on the line. |
| 0:20.0 | She is the director of voting and elections at common cause and an attorney with |
| 0:24.5 | decades of public interest law experience common cause dot org is the |
| 0:28.4 | website of course the Twitter handle at common cause and common cause has been |
| 0:32.2 | working in this area for over 50 years and doing just extraordinary |
| 0:36.8 | work. |
| 0:37.8 | Sylvia, welcome to the program. |
| 0:38.8 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:41.0 | So I'm looking at this story from today's Guardian. |
| 0:45.3 | McClenin County home to Waco, Texas closed 44% of its polling places between |
| 0:50.4 | 2012 and 2018 despite the fact that his population grew by more than 15,000. |
| 0:56.2 | Two-thirds of that growth came from black and Latin ex-residence. |
| 1:01.1 | In 2012, there was one polling place for every 4,000 residents by 2018. |
| 1:05.0 | It has down to one polling place for 7,700 residents. |
| 1:10.0 | Brazoria County, South of Houston, closed almost 60% of its polling locations |
| 1:15.2 | between 2012 and 2018. The 50 counties that gained the most black and Latinx |
| 1:20.6 | residents between 2012 and 2018 closed 542 polling sites |
| 1:25.8 | compared to just 34 closures in the 50 counties that have gained the most |
| 1:31.1 | white people or the fewest black and Latin Latino |
| 1:35.0 | residents. What the hell is going on here? Forgive my language. |
| 1:39.0 | Sure, so unfortunately what you're seeing is the result of the Supreme Court gutting the |
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