WILL AMERICAN ELECTIONS EVER AGAIN BE LEGITIMATE?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Only an established, legal “right to vote“ can defeat Republican voter suppression. Increasingly, this election is coming down to the simple question of how effective 40 years of concerted Republican voter suppression efforts will be.
Republicans are doing everything they can to keep people from voting, and then, when people do vote, to try to prevent those votes from being counted. When this election is over, if American democracy survives, our first project has to be to establish a firm, irrevocable right to vote for all American citizens.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.5 | So the election is a week from tomorrow, officially. |
| 0:20.6 | It'll probably take us a few days to count all the votes, but it's possible there will be |
| 0:24.5 | such overwhelming in-person turnout. |
| 0:27.3 | It's starting to look that way in a lot of parts of the country that it won't even be |
| 0:30.8 | endowed. |
| 0:31.8 | They won't have to wait for all the mail-in ballots to be counted. |
| 0:35.6 | We'll see. |
| 0:36.6 | We'll see. |
| 0:37.6 | Obviously, if Trump is ahead on election night regardless of the vote, they're going to |
| 0:42.6 | try and do the same thing they did in Florida near 2000. |
| 0:45.0 | I was talking to Greg Pallist on the phone yesterday. |
| 0:47.6 | He pointed out to me something that I didn't know. |
| 0:50.6 | He said that when the Supreme Court stopped the statewide recount in Florida, there were |
| 0:55.5 | still over 100,000 ballots that hadn't been counted at all. |
| 1:00.1 | The thing that I learned from watching 537, this documentary on, I believe it's Amazon |
| 1:05.6 | Prime. |
| 1:06.6 | I could be wrong, but it's one of those services, was that there were over 10,000 votes in |
| 1:13.8 | Miami-Dade County, which is predominantly democratic, where the people had tried to push |
| 1:18.9 | the little pin through the ballot, and the Chad didn't disconnect because the little |
| 1:25.6 | slot behind it that the Chad's would fall into was filled up with Chad's. |
| 1:30.0 | They just dimpled the ballot, but it was clear that that was what they were poking at, |
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