Ellen Weintraub, commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, explain how the United States has decentralized and restricted voting access.» Subscribe to MSNBC:
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FEC Commissioner: America’s Election System Is Still ‘In The Horse and Buggy Age’ | MSNBC
There really should be some basic National Standards that all States have to adhere to…. Remember the hanging Chad fiasco of the 2000 elections…. I have no doubt Florida could be a nightmare again for trying to get votes counted!!!!!!☹️
PA too.
@Karen Byrd Exactly… Political manipulation at the States level is Rampant!!!
Congratulations to the people of Bolivia who got rid of their right wing dictator…YOUR TURN AMERICA
Trying, see what happens next month.
Fingers crossed the majority vote and we take back our country. #VoteBlue
Bolivia show them what is democracy…..
We need Biden for leadership not Dictatorship.Biden for ability to talk to allies and gain trust.stay safe.😷✌
@Chris trying to steal an election and lock up his opponents how’s that for starters? Or are you going to deny this?
@Jarrod Pierce if that’s true why didn’t Obama do this? The only thing trump has destroyed from the Obama years is a great economy, low unemployment, a deficit that was manageable, and health care for all.
Even the orange Twizzlefuck doesn’t have a word to say about rights he had to restore!
Tell the truth and not lies!
Explain please👇
https://youtu.be/wKnZxgVRI5g
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“Hey Joe you had 47 years why didn’t you do it”?
– President Donald Trump
10/22/2020
@QUID-PRO-QUO J0E,- could it be that he was never president? My question to the orange Twizzlefuck is, for four years what have you done positive for your country?
When trump took over unemployment was lower. The deficit was lower and manageable. Their was relative peace. People had health coverage at last. Children weren’t being thrown into cages. No one had heard of the proud boys or BLM!
Yea makes you really think for once doesn’t it?
What’s up with that Louis DeJoy dude……. speaking of messing up elections.
@Skankhunt36 Trump wanted revenge against the USPS for their Postmaster Inspector General filing felony charges against trump university for mail fraud. Grifters cannot make the feds a part of their scam by federal law. Trump wants to end mail fraud regulations.
*Sorry, This Is Still The Worst Economic Recovery Ever*
Dec 2015 https://www.investors.com/obamanomics-gets-f-grade-for-failing-to-create-economic-growth-jobs/?ref=mp
*Meanwhile, another new report from Sentier Research based on Census data finds that median household income of $56,700 at the end of 2015 stood exactly where it was, adjusted for inflation, at the end of 2007.*
That’s eight years of virtually zero income gain. And Obama and his Washington pals wonder why voters are in such a cranky mood.
Last week, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress issued a new report on the Obama recovery that’s loaded with even more bleak news.
On almost every measure examined, the 2009-15 recovery since the recession ended in June of 2009 has been the meekest in more than 50 years.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/522422-judge-orders-postal-service-to-restore-high-speed-mail-sorting
Watch Glenn Kirschner’s latest video to find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXOKODoP4po&t=0s
@Sheila Boston thanks 👍🏾
If you can pay a bill with your phone, you can vote with your phone
It is not secure to vote by phone. Someone could hack in and change your vote. Paper ballots are safer right now.
I was going to vote for Biden but then I saw this👇
https://youtu.be/wKnZxgVRI5g
@QUID-PRO-QUO J0E,- I am not even going to bother and look at the nonsense you posted. Biden is so far above Trump. There is no comparison. Trump is just bad in every respect.
@Nadia Silvershine
Ok. If fake news tells you that it’s cool.
I have my own eyes and my own ears. All I see are packed Trump rallies everywhere. I’m watching him right now give his 3rd rally today.
Sleepy crooked joe couldn’t fill a pizza shop with supporters.
Hey where is crooked basement biden?
@Nadia Silvershine
Did you see sleepy crooked biden at his little get-together today? There were actually more Trump supporters there heckling him then there were biden supporters. That speaks volumes!!! LMFAO🤣🤣✌️
This dose not happen in many countries around the world
No other Democracy has a system that is rigged against minorities and it’s own Constitutional.
Australia has compulsory voting; you’re fined if you don’t vote.
@Dr. G the best part of the Australian electoral system is that there is an independent commission that determines electorate boundaries. There is no gerrymandering and voting is on a Saturday with many polling stations usually a school or church hall. The at at least 5 polling stations within 3-4 kms of my home strict limits on sending by candidates easy to vote early or by mail.
*the* country that makes voting easier
lol, the rest of us democracies have already done that.
Yes and we stopped measuring in feet ,inches,pounds,and Miles A LONG TIME AGO.
DEMOCRATICALLY America is still in the DARK AGES
No more lifetime judges, no lifetime senators, take donors out of politics and take back our freedom.
@Dale Hartley Okay that’s not exactly being ‘genuine’, the truth is there is no limit to how many 6 YEAR TERMS a Senator can serve (and that authority is left to the States) but he or she can be VOTED OUT upon completion of that term AT ANY TIME by the People.
A Constitutional Amendment would have to be passed to do what your suggesting which means the BULK of the country would have to agree with you… if they did they wouldn’t keep sending the same guys back over & over & over again…
@Ms. Byrd senators serve 6 years in a roll
@Darlene Roberts time to merge north and south dakota into one dakota. Time to give statehood to washington dc and puerto rico
@Dale Hartley sack all judges. Institute independent judicial commission to appoint judges
@Melissa Sullivan force all politicians especially to go thru oral and written exam. Trump should come up with a thesis how to run the country
Voting Day should be a National Holiday!
Explain please👇
https://youtu.be/wKnZxgVRI5g
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Why not have compulsory voting?
@Dennis Lawrence tell americanos what compulsory voting means
@Norman Heslington not really dear but fast enough
@Fancy Brooks great if constitution is amended to ban all trumpists
Vote out all republicans, otherwise the act of voting will only get harder and harder.
The republicans know if making vote easier for people to cast their ballots they won’t be no republicans nowhere . People will vote them out….
@Stephen Huyett with you
@Keith Johnson – Shelby GT500 liar
Explain please👇
https://youtu.be/wKnZxgVRI5g
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@Mosley Oswald – there should be Voter ID Laws
Republicans Support that.
Put it on the ballot, should the electoral college stay or go, let the people decide.
There either has to be a constitutional amendment or enough states to get together and agree to give their electors all to the winner of the national popular vote.
@Dr. G Yep, Democrats always coming up with great plans to change the rules but always the first to whinge when its used against them.
@Alternative Influencers Network Overlord – mob rule is when the minority think they should be in charge over the majority. As one of the majority that will be over soon.
USA is constitutional republic. There can be referendum on the topic but the whole house have to amend the constitution to implement such a change.
It’s maddening to know Biden’s election would be a mere formality without the bs electoral college. Trump wouldn’t win a popular vote against a dung beetle.
Obama the great……..you will live for ever……vote BLUE all ballot vote BIDEN
I guess that’s where we got our stupid voting day from.
@Dolina Cawley what?
We put a man on the moon 50 years ago, why cant we have fair honest voting, some states “fix” voting, change regulation, rules. That needs to change. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Jack, as someone who has worked at the polls I can tell you we do everything we can to make sure the rules are followed. Problem is, each state has their own policies and procedures they must follow. This should have been changed after the Bush/Gore debacle. Now we are in a fiasco again because of varying laws and Trump’s continued whining that the only way he could lose is if the election is rigged. An insult to the people who work hard to make sure every eligible voter gets to cast their ballot.
@Carla Robbins Carla, I agree w you wholeheartedly. Donald tried to do damage t o the U.S.P.S. but was caught redhanded. Yes, he’s a Liar and Cheat and once he loses like in baseball, when you’re out, you’re out.
It is a shame so many are so stupid to follow this person who has been duped and played by foreign adversaries, his blind base cult. Covid is just getting going again and it soon will be out of control kind of like the melting glacies. T.C and stay well, it could get MUCH worse. 👾😔
Ms Weintraub neglected to mention that the FEC has been crippled by trump, it has 4 members instead of a dozen, it oversees contributions, fraud etc.
Susan Long Great point !!!! And Weintraub has held everything together for years; she deserves the Medal of Honor for the protection she’s given all of us.
Hi you
“Better ways of doing it”…Yes, the USA has a lot to learn about making voting easier, and providing free and fair elections.
Joe and Kamela ARE WORTH the time waiting on a long line. VOTE!
Even I have to wait 24 hours….
You also need to rid yourselves of the Electoral College.
@Dr. G Pure democracies don’t work. The Founders knew that.
@theskyehiker Why should I be overrun by decisions from California? Sheet, Wyoming should just import 50 million immigrants and change the voting results across the US.
*Business Startups Created in America*
421,000 new businesses from 1992-1996
405,000 new companies from 2002 to 2006 (despite a major recession)
166,500 new enterprises from 2010 to 2014
https://inhomelandsecurity.com/obama-economy-numbers-say-different/
*CBO’s Jobs Growth Forecast.* Jan 2017
160,000 jobs per month first 6 months of 2017
64,000 jobs per month for 5 years after that
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52370
– *Liberalism SAPS the Life Out of the Economy Every Time*
@Dr. G – and Failed Liberal Policies would have a Hammer Lock on Power
@Alternative Influencers Network Overlord do it or stfu
here in Australia ,we have the AEC , they look after after our federal elections which we have every 3 years , our voting average is about 94% of us , so who ever wins , we cop it sweet . voting is compulsory , no machines , we use pencil pen and paper , we vote on a saturday . we have early voting at polling booths and postal votes . we vote at government buildings , community halls , churches , schools and surf clubs , there is always a polling around the corner from you .we also have at most polling booths sausage sizzles which raise lots of money for charities . our voting hours are on the saturday 8-00 am to 6-00 pm . our boofhead pollies usually only campaign for about 5-6 weeks , that`s about all most of us Aussies will put up with their dribble .
“The capitalist party never loses a game. It owns both clubs.”
― Wise Chinese philosopher
Yes mate spot on and that is why we have never had a civil war…we enjoy a very FAIR system …The AUSSIE ETHOS is A FAIR GO FOR ALL…that’s not to say it’s perfect but makes the American system look like something from the DARK AGES.
President Obama, love you, decent human being.
No-good trickster.
Trading right now will be at the of every wise individual’s list. In 2years you’ll be ecstatic with the decision you made today
You can text him on wassap ☝️
@Liu Hong Can I start with him? How can I reach him?
Who else observed that his trading last week was massively
@Harrison David What economic factors justify a rising Bitcoin rate?
Explain please👇
https://youtu.be/wKnZxgVRI5g
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