>> Can anybody explain to me why, in 2020, it still takes you six seven, eight hours
just to vote? >> This is Florida Zone Plies.
>> We made it, y'all. We made it. It's been an honor to share this almost 11 hour experience
with y'all. >> In Georgia, these voters waited 11 hours
to cast their ballots.
>> We're voting like our life depends on it. >> Can somebody please explain to me, in 2020.
All this advanced technology we got, all the wonderful things that this country possesses.
Do we feel it's coincidental that in 2020 it still take you 6, 7, 8, some cases 12 hours,
To cast your vote.
>> Plies is right, so how did we get here? These long lines are by design, whether in
person or absentee. Let's start with the latter. If you missed it, in Texas, there's a lot
going on. >> There were 12 in this largely democratic
county. The other 11 forced to close after Republican governor Greg Abbott, citing election
security, limited every county to a single collection site.
>> Governor Greg Abbott, a MAGA kind of guy limited a county that is the same size as
the state of Rhode Island, Harris County, to one drop off location for ballots. He did
this knowing the outcome. A federal judge said the state could not limit the number
of ballot drop off locations in each county.
But the state appealed this judge's decision and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overruled
the lower court. All three judges were appointed by, you guessed it, Donald Trump. They say
go out and vote. What about asking if how we vote is also structurally racist, wrote
LeBron James. Again, it's all by design, and it's been in motion for years.
>> How many of our Christians have what I call the goo goo syndrome, good government?
They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by
a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they
are not now.
As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace
goes down. >> That's Paul Wayrick, an outright grifter
who threw everything on the walls to get evangelicals to be blowhard fans of the GOP.
>> They had things, levels of voting that if he ever agreed to it, you'd never have
a Republican elected in this country again.
>> And the president just flat out admits it. Republicans have spent years attempting
to make it harder not easier to vote, especially for the minority and younger Americans who
tend to lean Democratic. But don't take my word for it, take theirs.
>> What we're gonna be able to do if we can recruit the bodies to do is focus on those
places.
That's where our voters are, right? Traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes.
So let's start playing offense a little bit. And that's what you're gonna see in 2020 and
I think it's gonna be markedly different. It's gonna be a much bigger program, a much
more aggressive program, and a much better funded program.
>> That voice is this man, Justin Clark, a former attorney and current senior political
adviser to the President. Republicans have wet dreams over images like these. Again,
it is completely manufactured to crap on the American people and muzzle their right to
vote. And the reason they do this is because they're just unpopular.
Republicans have won the popular vote in a presidential election only once since 1992,
with the re-election of George W Bush in 2004. Here's the short history of how Republicans
are empowered. In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act which required states with
histories of voter discrimination to get federal approval before changing their voting rules.
In 2013, the Supreme Court threw out the criteria used to determine that preapproval. So states
can make any changes they want to their voting laws with no federal standards or oversight.
So back in the day when racist white people were like, we really need to limit black people
from voting and we're okay being outright racist in our wording.
So what they did was this. They constructed poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent black
people from voting. But guess what? It's just evolved to a modern day form, long lines by
design, my friends. In 2018, those 15 states had closed 1,688 polling places since 2012.
Racism was again at play.
Of the 750 sites closed in Texas, 542 were in the 50 counties that had seen the largest
increases during those years of Black and Latino populations. Republicans believe correctly,
in most cases, that minorities and young adults disproportionately support Democrats, said
Thomas Mann. Reducing their turnout works to the advantage of Republicans.
One study from the University of California concluded, one very clear disparity. Voters
in predominantly black neighborhoods waited 29% longer on average than those in white
neighborhoods. The Republican Party is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically
extreme, scornful of compromise, and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
The Democratic Party, while no paragon of civic virtue, is more open to incremental
changes, fashioned through bargaining with the Republicans. This asymmetry constitutes
a huge obstacle to effective governance. Supplies, why are there long lines? Modern day racism.