Voting.
It's how America speaks to the manager.
And if you're about to say,
"But, Trevor, I just voted in November.
"The whole point is not to have
to think about it for another four years,"
well, listen up!
Because if you don't pay attention,
you might not be able to vote again in four years.
NEWSMAN: False fraud claims are now fueling GOP efforts
to roll back, to restrict voter access.
NEWSWOMAN: 33 state legislatures have already introduced
165 bills to restrict voting access just since last month.
Florida restricting vote-by-mail
after nearly five million Floridians
voted that way last year.
NEWSMAN 2: In Pennsylvania, Republicans are trying
to roll back mail-in voting expansions
they passed just two years ago.
In New Hampshire, they're trying
to require voter I.D. for absentee ballots,
while banning the use of student I.D.s.
NEWSWOMAN 2: In Arizona, one proposal would even allow
the legislature to override
the secretary of state's certification
of the electoral votes.
If they're not happy with the result, they can just change it.
Yes. Republicans saw the record number
of people exercising their right to vote, and they said,
"Yo, that shit cannot happen again."
And some of these proposals are really extreme, right?
This Arizona law would let the legislator
just override the decision of the voters.
Once that happens, what's the point of even voting?
Arizona's gonna have to update their stickers.
But hey, I get it. I get it.
I mean, Republicans have to make it harder to vote
so that they have a better chance of winning elections.
The only other option for them is to change their policies
to appeal to a majority of voters,
but come on. That's way too hard.
Human beings will do whatever they can
to avoid changing what they think.
And this has been the story for all of human history.
People don't like changing their minds.
My friends, it appears
that there are multiple solar systems,
many more than we thought.
We have to change everything.
-Huh. -Yes?
Or we could just burn you at the stake.
Ah, come on, guys.
So, these voter restrictions are popping up all over the country.
You know, sort of like the herpes of democracy.
But there's one state where Republicans are going harder
than anywhere, the one that just cost them the Senate.
ALI VELSHI: Georgia Republicans introduced a set
of sweeping new bills to limit access to polls in that state.
NEWSWOMAN: Nearly a dozen bills that could make it harder
to vote have already been introduced in the state senate.
Headline-grabbing proposal requiring two copies
of photo I.D. just to vote by mail.
Others would end automatic voter registration,
the use of ballot drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting.
VELSHI: One bill would also end early in-person voting
on Sundays, days when Black churches have historically
held something called "Souls to the Polls" drives
to turn out their members.
Mm, mm, mm, mm!
Ending Souls to the Polls? Whew!
Maybe y'all aren't gonna have to answer to Black voters anymore,
-but you're still gonna have to answer to Jesus. -? ?
But that's right. Georgia Republicans think
that if they can ban early voting on Sundays,
they can kill Souls to the Polls,
which is when Black worshipers go vote together
right after church.
Well, the joke's on you, Republicans,
because one thing you should have learned
about Black people is they can do church anytime, anyplace.
It doesn't even need to be on a Sunday.
Shit, when I was growing up, we went to church Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Saturday, we had morning cartoons,
but Sunday, we went double.
And by the way, you got to love how racists today have
to learn so much about Black people
just so that they can be racist.
I mean, back in the day, they could just say,
"No Blacks allowed."
But now, they have to find out
what Black people do so that they can ban that.
So now you have racists like, "No Souls to the Polls,
no one with fresh Timbs, and no one who watches Insecure."
Well, actually, Billy, Insecure is not on the air right now.
I think all the Black folk are watching reruns
of Girlfriends on Netflix.
Of course, there's nothing new
about states making it harder for people to vote.
I mean, we've all seen every election.
There are lines longer than the ones on Don Junior's mirror.
But one of the new laws being proposed
would make waiting in those lines even harder.
There's a part in this bill that prohibits the handing out
of food and water to voters.
It says that "nor shall any person give, offer to give
"or participate in the giving of any money or gifts,
including, but not limited to, food and drink to an elector."
So people who would take water
to people who were standing for hours in lines,
-this bill would make that a crime. -Mm-hmm.
Congratulations, Georgia.
You've finally solved the issue of widespread voter hydration.
Republicans are ballers, man. You got to admit.
They reduced the voting locations
so that people will have to wait in line for hours.
And now, they want to ban people from giving out food and water
to people who are waiting in line.
It's like every year they make it five percent harder to vote.
By 2030, the voting line is just gonna be
an American Ninja Warrior episode.
I mean, if you guys are gonna be evil,
at least don't be so blatant about it.
Instead of banning water,
Republicans should hand out even more water,
and then ban Porta Pottis.
Yeah. Now you're evil and clever.
Now, for the most part,
Republicans aren't coming right out and saying
that they're passing these laws
to stop Democrats and minorities from voting.
Instead, they're taking the big lie that they used
in the last election and recycling it
to try and win the next one.
I do believe that voting
in this country is a privilege, and...
-It's a right. -And it's a right, as well.
But it ought to mean enough where
you could put forth a little bit of effort
in trying to cast your ballot.
We're not taking away anybody's rights, but what
we are asking is we want a fair and honest election
that doesn't have all the allegations
that we had in this past election cycle.
NEWSWOMAN: Those allegations, baseless claims of fraud,
were promoted by Jones, who was recently
stripped of a committee chairmanship
following his efforts
to undermine the presidential election.
Oh, that's impressive, man.
This guy says we need new laws
to address the bogus voter fraud allegations
that he spread.
What we have here, my friends, is a rare, real-life instance
of a person both smelting it and dealting it.
I mean, for real, though, this is ridiculous.
If you're gonna make up evidence out of thin air and use it
against Black people, you should not be a lawmaker.
You go join the police.
So, that's the situation.
Republicans are trying to change the rules
to make it easier for them to win elections.
And people who are concerned about that
basically have two choices.
One-- you can make sure
that these restrictions do not get passed,
or you can get your ass in line right now
for Election Day 2022.
oh, and you might want to make sure you bring your own water.