I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear.

Cheryl and Eiffel and Ari Berman on the fight and right to vote.

If you look at all of the data that's been collected and analyzed by the best political scientists and social scientists,

there is no evidence of statistically significant voter fraud.

So you've created a system that disenfranchises millions of voters to try and solve a problem

that you can't prove exists.

This is an example of trying to give the most powerful people in the country, the wealthiest,

the most connected people, more power.

Because the more people that vote, the less power the special interests have.

If you can restrict the number of people who participate, it's a lot easier to rig the political system.

Thanks for joining us.

It's unbelievable and frankly outrageous that in the last four years, close to half the states

in this country have passed laws making it harder for people to vote. But it's true. And whereas

once upon a time in the south of my youth, it was Democrats who used the poll tax, literacy

test, and outright intimidation to keep black people

from voting, today it's the Republicans working the levers of suppression, as if something

in their DNA demands it. Listen to one of the founding fathers of the conservative movement, Paul

Warrick, back in 1980. I don't want everybody to vote.

Elections are not won by a majority of people.

They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now.

As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace

goes down.

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