Voting access and the future of American election reform

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is pushing election reform – no matter what it takes. Some members of the GOP has other plans. What does that mean for American democracy? Rep. Katherine Clark, John Fortier and Sophia Lin Lakin join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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0:48.4	I'm Vernetta Nuredean.
0:50.1	I live here in Atlanta, Georgia and I'm a former 14 county Board of Registration and Elections
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0:57.3	Vernetta is a Democrat and served on the board overseeing the 2020 election.
1:02.7	Part of her job was to certify the results in a county that Joe Biden won overwhelmingly,
1:08.4	but President Trump's supporters were not happy, refusing to believe he had really lost.
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