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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Way Too Early 3/26/21

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

Washington, Congress, Msnbc, Elections, Government, News, President, Politics, Versant, Ms Now, 2018, Issues, Versant Media, Analysis, Senate, Sunday

4.5538 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Georgia Republicans passed restrictive changes to the state election process Thursday after weeks of debate about how to tighten voting laws.

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0:00.0

Truth of the matter is nothing has changed.

0:03.7

As many people came, 28% increase in children to the border in my administration,

0:10.0

31% in the last year of 2019 before the pandemic in the Trump administration.

0:18.1

It happens every single solitary year. President Biden faces the White House

0:26.8

Press Corps in his first presidential news conference and gets grilled over the border crisis.

0:30.9

Question is, did he convince skeptical Americans he'll get things under control? Plus, months

0:36.2

after helping Democrats win the White House and the Senate, Georgia becomes the first state to enact restrictive new voting measures. The question is, will they hold up in court? And the mystery out west after large streaks light up the night sky. The question is, was it something from out of this world?

0:57.9

It is definitely way too early for this.

1:09.8

Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that thinks the only thing we seem to be missing is an alien invasion.

1:16.9

I am Casey Hunt on this Friday. Yes, it is Friday, March 26th. We will start with the news.

1:23.1

Republicans in Georgia have just adopted a sweeping new election law just months after the state helped Democrats take control of Washington.

1:30.6

Fueled in large part by Donald Trump's big lie about election fraud, the law tightens voter ID requirements for absentee ballots,

1:38.4

a direct response to the surge of mail-in ballots during the pandemic that helped Joe Biden narrowly defeat Trump in the state.

1:45.0

It shortens the early voting period for runoff elections.

1:48.7

That comes after Democrats Raphael Warnock and John Osop won their Senate races in part because

1:53.9

of their early leads in the runoffs.

1:56.1

The bill also limits the number of drop boxes for returning mail-in ballots, disproportionately affecting larger districts with majority minority populations.

2:05.6

And it allows the state to take over local elections.

2:09.2

Skeptics say that allows Republicans to toss out ballots in Democratic areas.

2:14.2

The law even prohibits food and water in voting lines, another provision that targets larger districts, again, with mostly black voters, where some have to wait hours to actually cast their vote.

2:28.9

And despite pushing back against Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud, Governor Brian Kemp wasted no time signing this bill into law.

2:38.8

Significant reforms to our state elections were needed.

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