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- Hi, my name is Laverne Berry,

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and I am a lawyer who has done voter protection in the past

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and I wanted to get some information about

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how you were recruiting for lawyers for the 2016 election.

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- Here\'s a map called Suppressing the Right to Vote.

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States with new voting restrictions since 2010.

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Here are the key states to watch.

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North Carolina.

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Kansas and Arizona.

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Texas.

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Wisconsin.

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- Good afternoon.

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Today, the United States Supreme Court

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announced its decision in the case of Shelby County v Holder

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and invalidated an essential part of the Voting Rights Act,

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a cornerstone of American Civil Rights law.

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- It is wrong, deadly wrong,

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to deny any of your fellow Americans

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the right to vote in this country.

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[applauding]

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- [Reporter] It\'s considered one of the most important

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pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed,

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but by five to four, the U.S. Supreme Court today

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took the teeth out of a law enacted nearly 50 years ago.

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- [Reporter] The heart of this law

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is the extraordinary exercise of federal power,

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which the Congress in 1965 said was necessary to put

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whole states under the supervision of the Justice Department

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and the federal courts, states that had demonstrated

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vicious efforts to prevent black people from voting.

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- [Reporter] Within weeks of the Supreme Court

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striking down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,

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several states moved forward with new restrictions.

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- [Reporter] Texas sought to redraw the boundaries

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for congressional and state house districts

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the very day the Supreme Court ruled.

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- I have a friend who lives in Baltimore

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and there\'s lots of issues in Baltimore

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with African American votes,

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so she\'s figuring out what to do in her town

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and she\'s already doing that.

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- We\'re there to observe and protect voting rights.

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We\'re helping everyone who wants to vote

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and that\'s an important part of what we\'re doing.

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I mean, it\'s about the voting rights,

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not about the political agenda.

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- Did you just have to vote by a provisional ballot?

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I do voter protection work

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because we\'re the United States of America.

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One man,

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one vote.

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That\'s our definition of democracy

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and then we don\'t give the one man the vote, then,

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big fat lie.

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I mean, you have to make sure that

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the one man gets the one vote.

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- [Reporter] North Carolina is the latest of several states

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with Republican controlled legislatures

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moving to tighten voter rules.

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- If it really is North Carolina,

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which it\'s sounding more and more like it is, the other

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issue is kind of where.

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- [Steve] I wanna do a little more digging,

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they always mention that there\'re five, ten counties

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where there are some real games being played

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and some nefarious activities already being uncovered.

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- We know that we all feel comfortable about North Carolina

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unless we\'re pulled in another direction?

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- Right.
- Yes.

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- [Steve] Well, that sounds good.

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- People volunteer in a lot of ways.

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I work for everyone to be able to vote.

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If you\'re voting for someone that I don\'t like,

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I still have to work for you to be able to vote.

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And there\'s a lot of reasons for that

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and I think the biggest one is...

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...that...

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...you\'re never gonna hear me

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if I don\'t let you

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exercise your own conscience.

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- [Announcer] ...airport, next stop is...

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- I\'ve been getting so many emails, all kinds of stories

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from North Carolina about crap going on already.

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Laverne and I met because we were both working together

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at Channel 13 WNET,

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the public television station in New York

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and I don\'t know what happened,

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but you know day one that we met,

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and when I first started there and we had our first meeting,

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we basically became friends for life.

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We started doing voting rights work in 2008.

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I\'m interested to see what it\'s gonna be like to go back

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to North Carolina and compare our experience eight years ago

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to what\'s gonna happen this time eight years later

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without the protections of the Voting Rights Act.

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And my friend Trista just wrote to me.

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She read my email and she\'s trying to find

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a flight to North Carolina.

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She wants to do something.

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- It was very powerful for me

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that I received this invitation from Steve and Laverne.

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Lemme take one of those.

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It seemed like a very concrete thing to do

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voter protection work and to try and help make

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the \"one person, one vote\" mean something.

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I\'ve never participated in a U.S. election.

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I\'ve never been to North Carolina.

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I feel a little bit like I\'m stepping off a cliff.

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People on the ground are already reporting

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suppression of the vote and black people and poor people

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being prevented from voting.

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- North Carolina is a Southern state that suffers

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from a legacy of Jim Crow racism,

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and our voting laws are very much part of that legacy.

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In 2013 when the US Supreme Court

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gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,

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our legislature decided not only to move ahead

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with a strict Voter ID law,

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but to pass other voter restrictions in the same bill

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that significantly altered voting in North Carolina.

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This law was comprehensive.

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It was passed very quickly.

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It was highly partisan and it was immediately challenged

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by the NAACP and voting rights groups in North Carolina.

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- As soon as they passed this monster suppression bill,

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we immediately went to court to battle against that

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to make sure that that did not negatively impact

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the opportunity for African Americans to come out and vote.

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- We knew it was being challenged in court,

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and we knew something was probably gonna change

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before election day,

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so how do we even prepare for election day

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not knowing what laws are gonna be in effect?

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- The court held that what the legislature was trying to do

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was unconstitutional and they determined

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that with surgical precision,

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they had undermined or sought to undermine the ability

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of the African Americans to vote

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and to participate in the political franchise.

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- What happens in North Carolina is going to

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be very important for what happens in the whole country

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because I think the efforts by the legislature here

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to suppress votes and to target particular parts

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of the population are so blatant, so shameless

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that this is kind of the test ground for voter rights.

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Hi, Liz, it\'s Steve Miller calling.

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I\'m on my way from Raleigh down to Fayetteville

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with Laverne Berry and Claire Wright

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and we have a couple of questions for you

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about some issues that might come up.

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- Oh, that\'s \'cause that\'s all on the form.

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- That\'s all on the form.

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Once we decided that we were gonna go to North Carolina,

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we reached out to the local Democratic party

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because we knew that they organize lawyers

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to do voter protection work.

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- So this is the note that Liz sent out.

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- Can you speak up a bit?

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- Okay.

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This is the email that Liz sent out this morning

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to everybody who\'s doing poll observing

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in the southeastern region for early voting.

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Now what surprised me,

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I don\'t know what the southeastern region is,

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but this must be out of state people.

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Because there\'re only eight and we\'re three of the eight.

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- Right.

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- So, she writes, \"Please find below

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all the training materials and resources you need

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to be an effective observer.

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You can always contact me with questions, concerns,

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on my cell,\" and then she has the number,

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which is the one I just tried calling.

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- Okay.

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- [Reporter] NAACP claims the State Board of Elections

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and three county boards are removing

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thousands of people from voter rolls illegally.

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- In Cumberland County,

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you have 4,000 people have been purged

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from the rolls.

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- [Reporter] A lawsuit was filed in federal court

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that claims the boards of election in Beaufort,

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Moore and Cumberland Counties canceled registrations

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only because the voters had mail returned as undeliverable.

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- [Jimmy] We have a gentleman that sent an absentee ballot.

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He was removed from the rolls.

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- Yeah, if you send in an absentee ballot

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and you\'re removed from the vote, you never know.

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- Yeah, no.
- We found it out in time.

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Plus, we\'ve had another couple of people

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that actually called before they went to vote

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and found out they were removed.

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We waitin\' on the judge ruling now.

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- I\'m just wondering best-case scenario

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what could that order say though?

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That has the practical effect of saving...

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- Well, it could have all those peoples\' vote

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by provisional ballot at least.

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- [Steve] Rather than be turned away.

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- We went to court back in the summer and we won.

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It allowed them to have same-day registration to vote

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\'cause you know they cut that out.

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- Right.

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- People affected by this

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can same-day register and vote still.

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- Right.

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- Just today, right?

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- [Steve and Laverne] Today and tomorrow.

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- [Steve] What happens on Tuesday?

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- [Jimmy] On Tuesday?

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Provisional ballot\'s the only way they can go.

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- And they will be allowed to do that?

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- Well, that\'s what we have to wait and see.

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- Well, as long as there\'s a question,

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you can request a provisional ballot.

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Now whether or not they gonna look at them,

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they don\'t, that\'s the question.

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Look, I\'ve got to run.

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- Oh, well, it was very nice to meet you.

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- Alright now.

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Nice meetin\' you all.

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- Yeah, good luck.

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- [Laverne] It\'s kind of mind-boggling

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that there are different voting rules in different states.

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What you need to be able to register is different

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and some places you can vote early

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and some places you can only vote on election day.

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It\'s so daunting sometimes.

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- Hey, here\'s Trista.

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Hi, how are you?

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- [Trista] I\'m TD Mitchell, or Trista.

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Steve is sort of like my gay big brother/uncle politically.

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- Laverne.

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- Hi, doll!

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- Hi, nice to...
- How you doin\'?

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- Nice to see you.

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- Great to see you.

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- I think that it\'s so amazing you just got

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on a plane and came.
- A plane and came down.

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- It\'s gotta be done.

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Well, I\'ve been clicking back and forth, website to website,

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trying to figure out where I could be most useful.

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And I click over to my email and there\'s Steve\'s email,

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and, oh, he\'s on his way to North Carolina.

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Oh!

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- Ah!

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Okay, here we go.

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- Okay.

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Turn up.

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Is the pullout not...?

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Oh.

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That doesn\'t pull out.

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- That pulls out.
- It does?

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- Yeah that\'s--
- In theory.

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Reputedly.

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Allegedly.

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- Okay.
- Is it cold in here to you?

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- Yes.
- I\'m freezing, right?

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- Well, I\'m wearing a coat.

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- Yeah.

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- So right now, what\'s happening?

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Right now, we\'re just gonna unpack and--

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- [Steve] I wanna just like settle in here

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for a minute and--

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- Okay.

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- I\'m gonna pull up my little

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handout flyer design-y thing.
- Oh yeah.

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I\'d like to look at that.
- Yeah.

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- [Steve] I\'d like to look at it.

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- So, and see if you,

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what feedback you guys have.
- Okay.

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- So, all the other stuff they\'re gonna see

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is gonna say \"Make your vote count,\"

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\"Make sure your voice is heard,\"

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you know, whatever, for this candidate,

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but what we\'re really saying is we\'re here to help.

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Do you know what I mean?

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- Yes, but some people don\'t know they need help

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because they think they\'re on the rolls.

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They\'ve always voted.

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They don\'t know they need help.

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- Our aim should be to compel the person to do something.

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So, it needs to say, you know,

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I don\'t wanna make everybody paranoid,

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but, like, \"Are you sure you\'re registered?

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Check today.\" And tell them where to check.

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My feelings about what this country stood for,

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when I looked at it from afar,

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I was practicing law in South Africa at a time

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where we got a constitution and democracy in 1994.

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And there was a brand-new constitution

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and hadn\'t yet been interpreted by our courts

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and we looked to the United States a lot for precedent.

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You know, like what is being done here,

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what is freedom of expression mean here?

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What does \"one person, one vote\" mean here?

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I thought that it was now,

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after the Civil Rights Movement,

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it was an egalitarian society.

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Living here has made me realize that it is not at all.

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- [Laverne] If we don\'t have it, we don\'t have it.

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- I am a little worried about you today

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out there in that place we saw last night.

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- Well, yeah, it\'s gonna be different

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and I\'m certainly gonna stand out, I think.

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When we were driving around last night

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there were no signs for democrats

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and I saw the end of the people who were out there.

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They were all white and, you know,

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I\'m wondering what my day is gonna be like.

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- Yeah, and I would feel better if I were there with you.

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- [Laverne] I mean, the other thing is,

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you can\'t make an assumption

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because that\'s part of the problem

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with this particular election.

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- Yeah.

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- People are jumping to conclusions.

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They\'re making assumptions about other people,

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so that\'s the scarier part.

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Someone might look at me and think,

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\"Well, she\'s not here to help me,\"

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and the fact is, I am there to help them.

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- Right.

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Okay.

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- Okay.

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- Good luck.

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We\'ll stay in touch?

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- Yeah, we\'ll stay in touch.

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- Got your back?

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- Got your back.
- Got your back.

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Good luck.

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Alright.

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See you.

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- [Laverne] Good morning.

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- [Man] How you doin\' this morning?

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- I\'m fine, thank you.

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Is the judge for today\'s early voting inside?

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- Yes, ma\'am, she is. And you are?

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- My name is Laverne Berry.

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- Hello.

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- Hello, hi.

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Nice to meet you.

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I\'m here--

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I\'m a lawyer and I\'m here just in case

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anyone has any questions or has any--

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- Okay, you\'ll need to speak to Miss Irene.

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- Irene?

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- And she\'s in there.

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- Okay, great.

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Thank you so much.

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- Part of North Carolina law allows each political party

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in every polling place to place observers there

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for the entirety of the election,

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so during early voting they can have a representative there

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to watch and see what\'s going on.

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In order to be on the inside,

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you have to be a registered voter in that particular county.

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On the outside, anybody can work with the voting process.

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- I just wanted to make one little announcement.

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I am a lawyer,

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and I\'ve been assigned to answer questions,

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so if you have a question that they can\'t answer inside

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for some reason or the line gets too long or gets too busy,

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I can try and help you through that,

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no matter which party, please come and see me.

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- I\'ll say that I did notice

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when I would approach black people,

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there were some who were, like,

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\"Who\'s this guy and what\'s he coming to talk to me about?\"

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- Um hm.
- Right.

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- Because I\'m white.

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Did you feel that too?
- Yeah.

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- And I had to immediately figure out

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how to break through that and get trust

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so that they would talk to me because there was some,

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\"Who\'s this white guy coming to talk,\" I really felt that.

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- I wasn\'t sure if it was whether I was white

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or whether they couldn\'t figure out which party?

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- [Steve] Yeah, I think it was partly that.

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That was tied to it for me too.

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- Yeah.

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- I don\'t think that someone white talked to me

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until people that were under 40

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started coming to the polls.

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- [Steve] Really?

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Wow.
- That\'s interesting.

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- And then when people were under 40 started

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coming to the polls and I started making announcements,

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then they started coming to talk to me.

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So there are a lot of different things

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of age and race coming into play.

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Hi, my name\'s Laverne.
- Hi.

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[crowd cheering]

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- I spent a lot of time in North Carolina.

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It\'s good to be at Fayetteville State University.

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[cheering]

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Are you fired up?

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- [Crowd] Yeah!

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- Are your ready to go?

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- [Crowd] Yeah!

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- Don\'t fall for the easy cynicism that tells ya,

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\"Politics doesn\'t matter, my vote doesn\'t matter.\"

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\"They\'re all crooked.\"

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\"It\'s all the same.\"

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They want you to think that way so you don\'t vote.

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- [Woman] We\'re voting!

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- And I know sometimes at the end of campaigns,

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there are so many negative ads on TV.

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There is so much noise.

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So much distraction.

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[cheering and booing]

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Hey, listen!

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Listen, listen, listen, listen!

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Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second.

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Everybody sit down and be quiet for a second.

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Now listen up!

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I\'m serious.

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Listen up.

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You\'ve got an older gentleman

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who is supporting his candidate.

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He not doing nothin\'.

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You don\'t have to worry about him.

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This is what I mean about folks not being focused.

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First of all, first of all, we let-- hold up.

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First of all,

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we live in a country that respects free speech.

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[cheering]

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So,

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second of all,

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it looks like maybe he might\'ve served in our military

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and we gotta respect that.

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Third of all,

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he was elderly and we gotta respect our elders.

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And fourth of all, don\'t boo--

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- [Crowd] Vote!

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- Vote!

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Don\'t boo.

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Vote!

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Come on!

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[cheering]

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- [Trista] Laverne?

00:22:00.899 --> 00:22:02.471
- [Laverne] Yeah?

00:22:02.471 --> 00:22:04.459
- Claire just found a section that says

00:22:04.459 --> 00:22:06.748
if they\'re picking up an absentee ballot,

00:22:06.748 --> 00:22:10.331
they need to pick one up by 5:00 p.m. today

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and then turn it in by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow.

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- Okay.

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- Are we sort of clear on the challenges thing?

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I mean, it seems that it\'s a very serious

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and difficult thing to make a challenge.

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- One voter cannot challenge another voter\'s

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right to vote on the day of.

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- [Claire] So no one can challenge anyone?

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- [Laverne] Are you sure about that?

00:22:42.768 --> 00:22:46.485
- We run the North Carolina state call line

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and that\'s in connection with

00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:51.213
the Lawyers\' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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I don\'t know that we\'ve gone into any other election

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that I can remember not knowing at least several months

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if not years what the law of the day would be.

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It\'s very unfortunate that the state is in such a position

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for such an important election

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and unfortunately our laws continue to morph.

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- [Reporter] NAACP pushed today for people to vote

00:23:12.946 --> 00:23:14.504
during a rally in Fayetteville.

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This comes after a judge ruled on Friday

00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:18.412
for the State Board of Elections

00:23:18.412 --> 00:23:22.265
to restore 4,500 voter registrations.

00:23:22.265 --> 00:23:24.352
The registrations were recently canceled

00:23:24.352 --> 00:23:27.102
under the controversial Individual Challenge law.

00:23:27.102 --> 00:23:29.011
At least 3000 of the voter registrations

00:23:29.011 --> 00:23:31.702
that were canceled were in Cumberland County.

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- Nobody would fight this hard to take something from us

00:23:35.256 --> 00:23:36.735
that wasn\'t powerful.

00:23:36.735 --> 00:23:37.738
- That\'s right.

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- We must have power.

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We do have power.

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The statistics now say that if you register 30%

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of the unregistered African Americans in the South

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and you add those to Latinos and progressive whites,

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you fundamentally change the South.

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If you change the South, you change the nation.

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- Do you think there will be repercussions

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for the election for the reduced polling sites

00:24:01.021 --> 00:24:02.571
for that first week of early voting--?

00:24:02.571 --> 00:24:03.436
- It already happened.

00:24:03.436 --> 00:24:04.740
It already happened.

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What happened is, remember, the 40 counties

00:24:07.718 --> 00:24:11.367
where you had 158 less early voting sites

00:24:11.367 --> 00:24:15.584
in the first week are your high population black counties.

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They\'re the counties covered by the Voting Rights Act.

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North Carolina is proof that what we told the Roberts Court

00:24:23.930 --> 00:24:27.639
when they ruled five to four to gut the Voting Rights Act,

00:24:27.639 --> 00:24:29.470
we told them you gonna see

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an unleashing of voter suppression.

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North Carolina is the poster child.

00:24:38.902 --> 00:24:42.387
- I grew up with parents who both lost all their families

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in the Holocaust and learned about things that happened

00:24:45.655 --> 00:24:48.991
in Germany once the right to vote was basically eliminated

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and once there was no opportunity

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for people to stop things happening.

00:24:55.894 --> 00:24:58.868
Democratic institutions are really fragile.

00:24:58.868 --> 00:25:00.551
We don\'t realize how fragile they are

00:25:00.551 --> 00:25:02.507
and we take them for granted when we\'re living with them

00:25:02.507 --> 00:25:04.469
and that\'s why doing voting rights work right now

00:25:04.469 --> 00:25:06.811
seems even more important.

00:25:25.588 --> 00:25:28.128
That\'s all we had this morning were those questions

00:25:28.128 --> 00:25:32.875
about the touch screen malfunctioning and purged voters

00:25:32.875 --> 00:25:36.300
and whether they get a regular ballot or a provisional.

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I wish I knew this law as well as I know

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my everyday working law.

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And it\'s important, \'cause I only get

00:25:48.971 --> 00:25:50.782
one chance to get it right.

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- Only three more of those to go.

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- As long as it\'s big enough so that people can see it

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from a distance that\'ll serve its purpose.

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- Right, absolutely.

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- [Claire] Oh look, my inside person.

00:26:00.541 --> 00:26:01.900
- [Steve] Ah, yes!

00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:03.067
Good for you!

00:26:03.067 --> 00:26:04.186
- \"Claire, thanks for the text.

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I plan to be at the poll by six.\"

00:26:06.755 --> 00:26:07.663
- Well, that\'s good.

00:26:07.663 --> 00:26:09.454
That\'s something.
- Yeah, yeah, that is nice.

00:26:09.454 --> 00:26:10.554
- Mine, I can\'t even text

00:26:10.554 --> 00:26:12.514
because she gave me a dentist\'s office

00:26:12.514 --> 00:26:13.871
with an answering machine.

00:26:13.871 --> 00:26:14.721
[laughing]

00:26:16.379 --> 00:26:17.479
- Liz.

00:26:18.548 --> 00:26:20.400
- [Steve] And now we can call Liz.

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:21.447
- Yup.
- [Steve] Okay?

00:26:21.447 --> 00:26:23.097
Should we text her?

00:26:23.655 --> 00:26:26.222
- [Laverne] We can text her the questions.

00:26:28.202 --> 00:26:29.046
- [Steve] Lemme see.

00:26:29.046 --> 00:26:30.316
[laughing]

00:26:30.316 --> 00:26:32.143
- Well, the N--
- Is it my N?

00:26:32.143 --> 00:26:33.082
- May I see it?

00:26:33.082 --> 00:26:34.041
- The N is running.

00:26:34.041 --> 00:26:36.291
[laughing]

00:26:37.384 --> 00:26:38.718
- [Steve] Problem votin\'?

00:26:38.718 --> 00:26:40.968
[laughing]

00:26:45.221 --> 00:26:46.683
- But it\'s not even an N.

00:26:46.683 --> 00:26:50.194
It\'s like a sort of N with its legs chopped off.

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- [Steve] Okay, she wrote back.

00:26:52.707 --> 00:26:54.356
She\'s fast when you text her.

00:26:54.356 --> 00:26:56.319
- What did she say?

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:59.025
- She said, \"I don\'t know the answer to the first.

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If that happens,

00:26:59.858 --> 00:27:02.602
please call the boiler room and we\'ll figure it out.\"

00:27:02.602 --> 00:27:05.822
The first is the touch screen malfunctioning

00:27:05.822 --> 00:27:10.154
and at what point is it considered a spoiled ballot.

00:27:10.154 --> 00:27:12.142
So, call the boiler room if that happens.

00:27:12.142 --> 00:27:15.969
\"The second, they may end up having to vote provisionally,

00:27:15.969 --> 00:27:17.796
but by the end of the canvas period

00:27:17.796 --> 00:27:21.366
they will be reinstated and their vote will count fully.\"

00:27:21.366 --> 00:27:23.297
So they may have to vote provisionally.

00:27:23.297 --> 00:27:24.130
- [Claire] Who?

00:27:24.130 --> 00:27:27.207
- The reinstated purged voters.

00:27:27.207 --> 00:27:30.016
\"But again, if you encounter a person this happens to,

00:27:30.016 --> 00:27:30.849
report it.\"

00:27:31.914 --> 00:27:33.589
Then she says, \"Thanks so much.

00:27:33.589 --> 00:27:36.295
I know you guys are gonna do great.\"

00:27:36.295 --> 00:27:37.462
- [Trista] Aww!

00:27:39.263 --> 00:27:41.477
- She says that to everyone, I bet.

00:27:41.477 --> 00:27:43.285
[Laverne laughing]

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[string music]

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- I\'m not quite sure what we\'re gonna find.

00:28:21.243 --> 00:28:25.653
I\'m hoping that we will merely be observing people

00:28:25.653 --> 00:28:29.691
carrying out their democratic right in a peaceful way,

00:28:29.691 --> 00:28:31.300
but if that doesn\'t happen

00:28:31.300 --> 00:28:35.381
I\'m hoping that I will have the means of intervening

00:28:35.381 --> 00:28:39.631
to help someone, even if it\'s just help one person.

00:28:40.493 --> 00:28:41.493
Who\'s first?

00:28:43.172 --> 00:28:44.375
- Who is first?

00:28:44.375 --> 00:28:46.542
- Well, Steve is last, so.

00:28:51.692 --> 00:28:53.518
- Okay, here\'s your sign.

00:28:54.409 --> 00:28:56.230
I think we should all get out and--

00:28:56.230 --> 00:28:58.251
- Yeah, yeah.
- Get her back.

00:28:58.251 --> 00:28:59.834
- Yeah, definitely.

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.293
Are you all set?

00:29:06.535 --> 00:29:08.878
You have your small sign too?

00:29:08.878 --> 00:29:09.711
- Yeah.
- Okay.

00:29:09.711 --> 00:29:11.101
- It\'s in my bag.

00:29:11.101 --> 00:29:13.768
- Got your back.
- Got your back

00:29:15.024 --> 00:29:16.024
- Good luck.

00:29:17.357 --> 00:29:18.903
- [Laverne] You\'re gonna need one of these.

00:29:18.903 --> 00:29:20.020
- Oh, thank you.

00:29:20.020 --> 00:29:20.978
- Yeah.

00:29:20.978 --> 00:29:21.811
It\'s a long day.

00:29:21.811 --> 00:29:22.644
- Yeah.

00:29:22.644 --> 00:29:23.577
Thanks, Mom.

00:29:23.577 --> 00:29:25.444
[Laverne laughing]

00:29:44.318 --> 00:29:46.356
- I think I\'ve got everything.

00:29:47.523 --> 00:29:49.273
- I\'ve got your back.

00:29:50.672 --> 00:29:51.505
Good luck.

00:29:53.138 --> 00:29:54.362
- I\'ll talk to you.

00:29:54.362 --> 00:29:55.195
Okay.

00:30:42.162 --> 00:30:43.374
- This feels good.

00:30:43.374 --> 00:30:46.548
Seeing these people coming here to vote,

00:30:46.548 --> 00:30:48.823
lined up at six o\'clock in the morning

00:30:50.829 --> 00:30:54.079
and everything seems to be working smoothly inside, so...

00:30:55.958 --> 00:30:56.791
...we\'ll see.

00:31:00.863 --> 00:31:02.263
[phone chiming]

00:31:31.807 --> 00:31:33.574
Hi, I\'m Steve Miller.

00:31:33.574 --> 00:31:35.452
- Matthew Davis.
- Hi, nice to meet you.

00:31:35.452 --> 00:31:37.814
I think we\'re kind of trying to do the same thing,

00:31:37.814 --> 00:31:40.024
make sure everything goes smoothly.

00:31:40.024 --> 00:31:43.580
If anybody has problems or questions, I\'m here to help.

00:31:43.580 --> 00:31:46.109
- I\'m with Democracy North Carolina.

00:31:46.109 --> 00:31:47.677
- You doing surveys at all, or...?

00:31:47.677 --> 00:31:48.692
- Yeah.

00:31:48.692 --> 00:31:49.953
I\'m doing surveys.

00:31:49.953 --> 00:31:53.236
I see one thing that we don\'t have the parking.

00:31:55.810 --> 00:31:57.094
[phone chiming]

00:32:02.314 --> 00:32:03.691
- So, I\'m Steve Miller.

00:32:03.691 --> 00:32:05.232
- Steve Miller, are you a federal observer?

00:32:05.232 --> 00:32:06.190
Are you a--

00:32:06.190 --> 00:32:07.811
- Um, I\'m with the--
- Republican or Democrat?

00:32:07.811 --> 00:32:09.375
- Democratic.

00:32:09.375 --> 00:32:10.792
Outside observer.

00:32:12.509 --> 00:32:14.433
Sharon is also gonna be inside.

00:32:14.433 --> 00:32:16.150
I know she\'s on the list.

00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:17.733
- Where are you at?

00:32:21.842 --> 00:32:23.516
- I should be on here.

00:32:24.183 --> 00:32:25.652
- I\'m not seeing you here.

00:32:25.652 --> 00:32:27.687
- I\'ve gotten all kinds of emails from them.

00:32:27.687 --> 00:32:29.093
I\'m on the list.

00:32:29.093 --> 00:32:29.926
- Yeah.

00:32:29.926 --> 00:32:30.759
You\'re not on my list,

00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.720
so I gotta ask you again to step past this--

00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.995
the curbside right there because you\'re not on my list.

00:32:40.540 --> 00:32:42.596
Get on over by that sidewalk on the other side

00:32:42.596 --> 00:32:45.331
of that sidewalk, on the sidewalk actually.

00:32:45.331 --> 00:32:46.164
- Really?

00:32:46.164 --> 00:32:47.973
I thought it was 50 feet from the entrance no matter where.

00:32:47.973 --> 00:32:48.881
- I\'ll go grab my string.

00:32:48.881 --> 00:32:49.714
How \'bout that?

00:32:49.714 --> 00:32:51.371
- Yeah, that would be great.

00:32:51.455 --> 00:32:54.621
And I\'m gonna write to them and see what\'s going on.

00:32:58.385 --> 00:32:59.561
[sighing]

00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:01.443
- Good morning.

00:33:01.443 --> 00:33:04.122
I\'m doing voter protection work,

00:33:04.122 --> 00:33:07.155
so my job is if people have any problems inside,

00:33:07.155 --> 00:33:09.457
for example if your name is not on the register of voters

00:33:09.457 --> 00:33:12.291
and it should be, if you could talk to me afterwards

00:33:12.291 --> 00:33:14.090
then I can follow up and make sure

00:33:14.090 --> 00:33:16.887
that your vote is counted or any other problems.

00:33:16.887 --> 00:33:17.845
- Okay.
- Okay.

00:33:17.845 --> 00:33:19.723
Thank you.
- Thank you.

00:33:19.723 --> 00:33:22.201
- Everybody\'s friendly here.

00:33:22.201 --> 00:33:24.978
Introduced myself to the judge and she was very busy

00:33:24.978 --> 00:33:26.697
and distracted \'cause she was setting up,

00:33:26.697 --> 00:33:29.086
but she was friendly and nice.

00:33:29.769 --> 00:33:32.111
So far there\'ve been about four this morning--

00:33:32.111 --> 00:33:34.161
well, more than that provisional ballots, about

00:33:34.161 --> 00:33:37.720
six or seven, and at least four of them are people who,

00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.304
on the face of it, seem to have been people who were purged.

00:33:42.304 --> 00:33:45.129
You know, they registered, they were adamant

00:33:45.129 --> 00:33:49.687
that they\'d registered, and their names weren\'t there.

00:33:49.687 --> 00:33:52.437
[sirens wailing]

00:33:58.199 --> 00:33:59.162
- You should be alright.

00:33:59.162 --> 00:33:59.995
You\'re good there.

00:33:59.995 --> 00:34:01.260
- Okay, thanks a lot.

00:34:01.260 --> 00:34:02.202
- Alright. Thank you.

00:34:02.202 --> 00:34:03.202
- Thank you.

00:34:04.201 --> 00:34:05.920
This woman was just telling us she got in

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.842
right at the beginning

00:34:06.842 --> 00:34:09.389
and they kept her in there for 45 minutes.

00:34:09.389 --> 00:34:11.618
They didn\'t know how to handle doing a provisional ballot.

00:34:11.618 --> 00:34:13.632
They were having a problem with her address,

00:34:13.632 --> 00:34:16.017
said it was a complete mess.

00:34:16.017 --> 00:34:17.244
Excuse me!

00:34:17.244 --> 00:34:19.361
Everything go okay in there?

00:34:19.361 --> 00:34:22.748
- We turn on our call lines the second the polls open.

00:34:22.748 --> 00:34:24.402
We\'ll start out slow.

00:34:24.402 --> 00:34:27.208
That\'s what normally happens, but that was not the case.

00:34:27.208 --> 00:34:29.772
All the lines lit up within five minutes

00:34:29.772 --> 00:34:32.240
and stayed fairly heavy.

00:34:32.240 --> 00:34:33.634
- You can call me.

00:34:33.634 --> 00:34:36.710
- They were twice the number that we had received

00:34:36.710 --> 00:34:39.182
in the previous presidential election.

00:34:39.182 --> 00:34:40.184
- We\'re just trying to help.

00:34:40.184 --> 00:34:42.723
You know, if there are problems, we can be a resource.

00:34:42.723 --> 00:34:45.100
- Yeah, I can\'t use you guys.

00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:45.942
Y\'all are just here to--

00:34:45.942 --> 00:34:48.006
- Oh no, yeah, we\'re here if any of the voters wanna--

00:34:48.006 --> 00:34:50.132
- As long as you stay outside of the 50-foot zone--

00:34:50.132 --> 00:34:50.998
- Right.
- You\'re good to go.

00:34:50.998 --> 00:34:52.975
- If I need to use the bathroom, I can just run in?

00:34:52.975 --> 00:34:54.123
I\'m not gonna be talking to anybody or--

00:34:54.123 --> 00:34:54.956
- No.

00:34:54.956 --> 00:34:56.387
Don\'t go in my polling place.

00:34:56.387 --> 00:34:58.270
This door may be open except by the fire department.

00:34:58.270 --> 00:34:59.506
Otherwise, no.

00:34:59.506 --> 00:35:01.903
- I\'ve been doing this all week with early voting.

00:35:01.903 --> 00:35:03.546
The judges can be a little flexible,

00:35:03.546 --> 00:35:05.227
I mean, to go to the bathroom.

00:35:05.227 --> 00:35:06.060
- No, I can\'t do it today.

00:35:06.060 --> 00:35:06.893
- Your last name?

00:35:06.893 --> 00:35:08.392
- Dow, D-O-W.

00:35:08.392 --> 00:35:10.309
- You\'re the first one.

00:35:11.186 --> 00:35:13.108
- And you the...?

00:35:13.108 --> 00:35:14.692
- Chief Judge.
- Chief Judge.

00:35:14.692 --> 00:35:15.775
- [Mark] Yep.

00:35:17.293 --> 00:35:18.126
- Okay.

00:35:23.602 --> 00:35:25.166
- Excuse me, ma\'am, did everything go okay?

00:35:25.166 --> 00:35:26.295
Were you able to vote in there?

00:35:26.295 --> 00:35:27.128
Was there a problem?

00:35:27.128 --> 00:35:30.404
- No, they sent me from the one on Cliffdale over here,

00:35:30.404 --> 00:35:31.623
now I got to go over there.

00:35:31.623 --> 00:35:32.517
I don\'t know where I\'m going.

00:35:32.517 --> 00:35:33.350
- Have you--

00:35:33.350 --> 00:35:34.183
- But I\'ve got to get back to work.

00:35:34.183 --> 00:35:35.016
[laughing]

00:35:35.016 --> 00:35:35.849
- Oh, would you mind,

00:35:35.849 --> 00:35:38.509
\'cause I\'m a voter protection volunteer

00:35:38.509 --> 00:35:39.846
and we\'re just following up with people

00:35:39.846 --> 00:35:41.957
who are having problems voting.

00:35:42.390 --> 00:35:44.789
Are you gonna be able to come back and vote later at all?

00:35:44.789 --> 00:35:47.109
- Well, I\'m getting ready to go over there,

00:35:47.109 --> 00:35:49.867
and if they tell me I\'m in the wrong district again

00:35:49.867 --> 00:35:51.463
then I just quit.

00:35:51.463 --> 00:35:52.315
- Oh, don\'t quit.

00:35:52.315 --> 00:35:53.207
[laughing]

00:35:53.207 --> 00:35:54.197
- I gotta get back to work.

00:35:54.197 --> 00:35:55.566
I mean, I tried.

00:35:55.566 --> 00:35:57.017
This is the second time.

00:35:57.017 --> 00:35:59.703
The last time the line was so long, I didn\'t have time.

00:35:59.703 --> 00:36:00.536
- Okay.

00:36:00.536 --> 00:36:03.737
We\'ve got some people who you can phone

00:36:03.737 --> 00:36:06.509
who can check up on your district and make sure

00:36:06.509 --> 00:36:11.128
that you get some assistance if you\'ve been to two already.

00:36:11.128 --> 00:36:15.070
There\'s a voter protection-- those two numbers,

00:36:15.070 --> 00:36:16.750
you can try calling before you go and see if there\'s

00:36:16.750 --> 00:36:20.803
someone there you can make sure they can help you

00:36:20.803 --> 00:36:22.795
making sure you get to the right place.

00:36:22.795 --> 00:36:24.030
- Well, I appreciate it.

00:36:24.030 --> 00:36:25.258
- [Claire] Please do vote.

00:36:25.258 --> 00:36:26.300
[laughing]
- I\'m tryin\'.

00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:27.419
- I know you are.
- I\'m tryin\'.

00:36:27.419 --> 00:36:28.752
- [Claire] Okay.

00:36:30.417 --> 00:36:34.174
- We have struggled long and mightily to win

00:36:34.174 --> 00:36:37.986
the right to vote and we will continue to struggle,

00:36:37.986 --> 00:36:41.961
because when you deny a person the right to vote

00:36:41.961 --> 00:36:45.255
then you take away every other constitutional right

00:36:45.255 --> 00:36:47.005
that they might have.

00:36:50.552 --> 00:36:52.807
- I called and they send me here.

00:36:52.807 --> 00:36:55.370
Now these people here tell me I cannot vote here.

00:36:55.370 --> 00:36:56.271
\"It\'s not here.

00:36:56.271 --> 00:36:57.757
Go to another place.\"

00:36:57.757 --> 00:36:58.590
- Really?

00:36:58.590 --> 00:36:59.423
And what is your address?

00:36:59.423 --> 00:37:00.256
What is your address?

00:37:00.256 --> 00:37:01.699
- [Woman] My address is Nikita Drive.

00:37:01.699 --> 00:37:02.532
- Okay.

00:37:02.532 --> 00:37:03.814
Lemme, I can make a phone call.

00:37:03.814 --> 00:37:05.819
- Please do that because they don\'t want me to vote

00:37:05.819 --> 00:37:07.608
and I\'m gonna find my place

00:37:07.608 --> 00:37:09.711
\'cause I want Hillary no matter what.

00:37:09.711 --> 00:37:10.544
- Right.

00:37:10.544 --> 00:37:11.377
So, you\'re not gonna give up.

00:37:11.377 --> 00:37:12.278
- I\'m not gonna give up.

00:37:12.278 --> 00:37:13.111
- They\'re not gonna stop you.

00:37:13.111 --> 00:37:14.187
- Three places they say no?

00:37:14.187 --> 00:37:16.725
I\'m gonna keep going until I find her.

00:37:16.725 --> 00:37:18.043
- [Steve] Right, okay.

00:37:18.043 --> 00:37:19.535
I\'m supporting you on that and I\'m here to help.

00:37:19.535 --> 00:37:20.936
- This is not fair.

00:37:20.936 --> 00:37:22.732
- Well, it\'s not over yet.

00:37:22.732 --> 00:37:23.818
- It\'s not over yet.

00:37:23.818 --> 00:37:24.717
I will find my place.

00:37:24.717 --> 00:37:25.550
- [Steve] It\'s not over yet, yup.

00:37:25.550 --> 00:37:26.688
You\'re gonna get in there.

00:37:26.688 --> 00:37:28.557
- [Matthew] We\'re gonna take care of you.

00:37:28.557 --> 00:37:31.515
- I just can\'t believe this is very unprofessional.

00:37:31.515 --> 00:37:34.348
I changed it five years ago and they say,

00:37:34.348 --> 00:37:36.644
\"No. Go here, go here, go here.\"

00:37:36.644 --> 00:37:37.739
Three places.

00:37:37.739 --> 00:37:39.613
I can\'t believe this.

00:37:39.613 --> 00:37:42.225
- She\'s been living at the same address for five years.

00:37:42.225 --> 00:37:44.035
- Ten people left from the other place with me

00:37:44.035 --> 00:37:45.619
because they got the wrong places.

00:37:45.619 --> 00:37:47.498
- You\'ve been living at the same address for five years?

00:37:47.498 --> 00:37:48.369
You said, right?
- Yes, sir.

00:37:48.369 --> 00:37:51.096
- Yes, she\'s been at the same address for five years.

00:37:51.096 --> 00:37:53.601
- I even change it in here five years ago too.

00:37:53.601 --> 00:37:55.643
- Okay, will you do this survey right quick?

00:37:55.643 --> 00:37:57.220
- Yes.

00:37:57.220 --> 00:37:59.285
- I\'m 68 years-old.

00:37:59.285 --> 00:38:01.485
Been married for 46 years.

00:38:01.485 --> 00:38:05.118
I got three adult kids, eight grandkids.

00:38:05.939 --> 00:38:08.944
I was stationed here at Fort Bragg

00:38:08.944 --> 00:38:12.100
in the 82nd Airborne Division for 13 years

00:38:12.100 --> 00:38:14.787
after I came back from Vietnam.

00:38:14.787 --> 00:38:16.249
Voting

00:38:16.249 --> 00:38:17.349
is the key...

00:38:18.793 --> 00:38:20.188
...to everything.

00:38:20.705 --> 00:38:24.880
Dividing the money, healthcare, education.

00:38:26.463 --> 00:38:29.622
You name it, they had a vote for it.

00:38:29.622 --> 00:38:32.205
So, I\'m gonna go down fightin\'.

00:38:34.831 --> 00:38:35.700
- Hey, how you doin\'?

00:38:35.700 --> 00:38:37.751
Lemme talk to you for a second.

00:38:37.751 --> 00:38:38.684
- [Laverne] Okay.

00:38:38.684 --> 00:38:40.878
- They said that they could not find me

00:38:40.878 --> 00:38:45.734
because of the DMV did not, I guess, you know, process.

00:38:45.734 --> 00:38:46.659
I don\'t know.

00:38:46.659 --> 00:38:47.992
Some kind of mishap.

00:38:47.992 --> 00:38:49.977
- There have been some issues with people

00:38:49.977 --> 00:38:51.902
who did registration at the DMV.

00:38:51.902 --> 00:38:53.060
- With the DMV.

00:38:53.060 --> 00:38:54.175
So, I did this.

00:38:54.175 --> 00:38:55.008
- Okay.

00:38:55.008 --> 00:38:56.432
- And I guess this is some type of,

00:38:56.432 --> 00:38:57.969
well, you know, better than I do.

00:38:57.969 --> 00:38:58.802
- Yes.

00:39:00.262 --> 00:39:04.466
- So, after the election is over, so my vote counts

00:39:04.466 --> 00:39:05.690
after the election.
- No--

00:39:05.690 --> 00:39:07.765
- What\'s the address that you have?

00:39:12.576 --> 00:39:13.934
6355.

00:39:13.934 --> 00:39:15.372
- I moved five years ago.

00:39:15.372 --> 00:39:17.753
- She moved from that address five years ago.

00:39:17.753 --> 00:39:19.702
- And I changed it and it\'s on my license.

00:39:19.702 --> 00:39:20.888
- And she changed it.

00:39:20.888 --> 00:39:22.378
And she has a driver\'s license

00:39:22.378 --> 00:39:24.282
that has the current address on it.

00:39:24.282 --> 00:39:28.725
- For whatever reason, the DMV only loses, you know,

00:39:28.725 --> 00:39:31.730
just being honest, black people,

00:39:31.730 --> 00:39:32.743
you know, that\'s how I\'m feelin\'.

00:39:32.743 --> 00:39:34.044
I mean that\'s what I\'m noticin\'.

00:39:34.044 --> 00:39:36.863
I\'m the only-- me and two other black guys

00:39:36.863 --> 00:39:41.109
are the only guys that the DMV forgot to process.

00:39:41.109 --> 00:39:43.473
To me that doesn\'t make any logical--

00:39:43.473 --> 00:39:44.552
- That makes no sense.

00:39:44.552 --> 00:39:45.873
- No sense.
- No sense.

00:39:45.873 --> 00:39:47.938
- But everybody else is, \"Oh, we can find you.

00:39:47.938 --> 00:39:51.262
We got you, here we go.\" But I gotta, again,

00:39:51.262 --> 00:39:55.970
does this mean that after the vote is over, my vote counts?

00:39:55.970 --> 00:39:59.177
What that\'s like a race-- the football game is over

00:39:59.177 --> 00:40:00.619
and now I can play.

00:40:00.619 --> 00:40:03.501
- The only thing you can do is vote provisionally today.

00:40:03.501 --> 00:40:05.456
- I think that\'s unfair.

00:40:05.456 --> 00:40:06.456
Very unfair.

00:40:09.004 --> 00:40:10.652
- [Steve] Yeah, that\'s what\'s weird.

00:40:10.652 --> 00:40:13.294
The computer shows you voted in the primary.

00:40:13.294 --> 00:40:14.127
- Exactly.

00:40:14.127 --> 00:40:16.629
- Yeah, she said that she had voted before.

00:40:16.629 --> 00:40:19.270
So, what could\'ve happened between the primary vote

00:40:19.270 --> 00:40:21.740
and this that would change her address on the records?

00:40:21.740 --> 00:40:23.343
- [Man on phone] I don\'t know what the answer to that is.

00:40:23.343 --> 00:40:25.546
- Alright, but you can\'t see any scenario

00:40:25.546 --> 00:40:28.765
that would allow her to vote with a regular ballot today?

00:40:29.373 --> 00:40:31.682
- What we\'re trying to do is make sure

00:40:31.682 --> 00:40:34.039
that all of the provisional ballots--

00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:34.872
- Right.

00:40:34.872 --> 00:40:36.466
- Especially the ones that came through the DMV,

00:40:36.466 --> 00:40:39.431
because that\'s a known problem--

00:40:39.431 --> 00:40:40.978
- Right, I know, I understand that, yeah.

00:40:40.978 --> 00:40:43.702
- [laughing] That something can be done with those.

00:40:43.702 --> 00:40:44.535
- I got ya.

00:40:44.535 --> 00:40:45.368
I got ya.

00:40:45.368 --> 00:40:46.201
I will fill that out.

00:40:46.201 --> 00:40:47.067
- Here\'s my clipboard.

00:40:47.067 --> 00:40:47.902
My pen.

00:40:47.902 --> 00:40:48.735
Go for it.

00:40:48.735 --> 00:40:49.568
- Yes, ma\'am.

00:40:49.568 --> 00:40:50.401
I appreciate you.

00:40:50.401 --> 00:40:53.747
- And make sure you sign at the bottom.

00:40:53.747 --> 00:40:55.207
I\'m so glad that you stopped by.

00:40:55.207 --> 00:40:57.082
- Oh yeah, oh yeah.

00:40:57.082 --> 00:40:59.140
- We\'re gonna do the follow-up on this.

00:40:59.140 --> 00:41:00.473
- [Voter] Mmm hmm.

00:41:11.698 --> 00:41:13.577
- I\'m not ignoring you, but I\'m getting texts.

00:41:13.577 --> 00:41:14.914
- Oh do what you gotta do, do what you gotta do.

00:41:14.914 --> 00:41:19.311
- So I\'m wondering if it\'s other issues, that\'s all.

00:41:19.311 --> 00:41:20.728
But I\'m with you.

00:41:25.976 --> 00:41:29.118
Oh, they\'re telling me another provisional ballot.

00:41:30.210 --> 00:41:32.714
- I tell you, she\'s not giving up.

00:41:32.714 --> 00:41:34.381
She\'s not giving up.

00:41:36.849 --> 00:41:39.053
- Even if it takes me up to 10:00 p.m. tonight,

00:41:39.053 --> 00:41:40.578
I will keep looking for my vote.

00:41:40.578 --> 00:41:41.556
- Yeah?

00:41:41.556 --> 00:41:43.080
Okay, I think it\'s worth it.

00:41:43.080 --> 00:41:44.309
If in the end she goes there

00:41:44.309 --> 00:41:46.441
and they make her do the provisional,

00:41:46.441 --> 00:41:49.330
at least there\'s a chance if she goes to the right precinct

00:41:49.330 --> 00:41:51.971
she\'s gonna get to vote regular when she shows her the ID

00:41:51.971 --> 00:41:55.299
and explains the story, she can attest that it\'s her

00:41:55.299 --> 00:41:59.651
and that you could possibly vote with the regular ballot.

00:41:59.651 --> 00:42:00.651
So, it\'s worth the effort.

00:42:00.651 --> 00:42:01.484
Make the trip,

00:42:01.484 --> 00:42:04.141
it\'s only 10 minutes by car according to the map.

00:42:04.141 --> 00:42:04.974
- [Voter] Okay.

00:42:04.974 --> 00:42:09.388
- Go in, explain the story to them, show them your ID,

00:42:09.388 --> 00:42:11.010
tell them you voted in the primary

00:42:11.010 --> 00:42:13.324
and tell \'em you want to vote with a regular ballot.

00:42:13.324 --> 00:42:14.764
Okay?
- I will.

00:42:14.764 --> 00:42:16.447
- And then if you have a problem, you can call me.

00:42:16.447 --> 00:42:17.453
I can talk to them too

00:42:17.453 --> 00:42:18.737
and we can see if we can do something.

00:42:18.737 --> 00:42:20.084
- I will do that.

00:42:20.084 --> 00:42:21.250
- Okay?
- Thank you.

00:42:21.250 --> 00:42:23.950
- Alright, good luck.
- Have a blessed day.

00:42:26.603 --> 00:42:29.623
- Yeah, this was crazy.
- This is outrageous.

00:42:29.623 --> 00:42:30.865
She\'s a citizen.

00:42:30.865 --> 00:42:31.833
- Right.
- Right?

00:42:31.833 --> 00:42:33.017
Moved five years ago.

00:42:33.017 --> 00:42:34.641
Address not in the system.

00:42:34.641 --> 00:42:35.474
Weird.

00:42:35.474 --> 00:42:36.307
- I know that, and you know what?

00:42:36.307 --> 00:42:38.729
Most people wouldn\'t be as persistent as she is.

00:42:38.729 --> 00:42:40.658
They would\'ve given up by now.

00:42:40.658 --> 00:42:41.774
She\'s not giving up.

00:42:41.774 --> 00:42:44.065
- But she voted in the primary.

00:42:45.403 --> 00:42:48.128
- [Steve] She did everything she\'s supposed to do.

00:42:52.805 --> 00:42:55.972
[acoustic guitar music]

00:42:59.952 --> 00:43:01.952
- Way back in 2004

00:43:02.521 --> 00:43:07.521
I took it upon myself to drive people to the polls,

00:43:07.565 --> 00:43:10.614
so I drove a woman

00:43:11.348 --> 00:43:14.573
who had a very hard time walking.

00:43:15.367 --> 00:43:19.984
And a janitor heard me talking

00:43:20.892 --> 00:43:22.642
to the people,

00:43:23.100 --> 00:43:27.841
you know, right outside the poll, and he found

00:43:28.796 --> 00:43:31.997
a industrial pushcart

00:43:32.613 --> 00:43:37.565
and pushed it out the back door and around to the street

00:43:37.565 --> 00:43:42.057
with a chair on it so that this woman could sit

00:43:42.057 --> 00:43:43.448
in this chair.

00:43:43.940 --> 00:43:47.031
And he pushed her back through the schoolyard

00:43:47.046 --> 00:43:51.946
and up and through the utility, um,

00:43:52.855 --> 00:43:53.855
elevator

00:43:54.299 --> 00:43:58.524
just so she could get to the place where she could vote.

00:43:59.819 --> 00:44:00.986
And I thought,

00:44:02.083 --> 00:44:06.975
if he could do that on a day when that\'s not his job,

00:44:07.587 --> 00:44:09.088
I could take some time off

00:44:09.088 --> 00:44:11.921
at every election to do something.

00:44:13.315 --> 00:44:14.850
- [Woman] Excuse me, ma\'am.

00:44:14.850 --> 00:44:15.808
Ma\'am?
- Yes?

00:44:15.808 --> 00:44:19.146
- You have someone who wanna see you about a location.

00:44:19.146 --> 00:44:19.987
- Okay.

00:44:19.987 --> 00:44:24.045
- They spoke-- not sure if they supposed...

00:44:24.045 --> 00:44:26.846
- I know there are special provisions with the military

00:44:26.846 --> 00:44:29.180
once they work out where you are

00:44:29.180 --> 00:44:32.214
and where you should be voting, your vote can be counted.

00:44:32.972 --> 00:44:34.322
- Oh, that\'s great news.

00:44:34.322 --> 00:44:37.757
So you got a regular ballot, and you voted?

00:44:37.757 --> 00:44:40.884
I\'m so glad that\'s gotten fixed.

00:44:40.884 --> 00:44:41.717
Okay.

00:44:41.717 --> 00:44:42.550
It was a real pleasure

00:44:42.550 --> 00:44:44.058
and I\'m just happy everything worked out,

00:44:44.058 --> 00:44:45.387
so you voted a regular ballot

00:44:45.387 --> 00:44:47.674
and your vote\'s gonna be counted tonight.

00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:49.500
That\'s great.

00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:52.064
Alright, thank you for voting and good luck.

00:44:52.064 --> 00:44:53.843
Yeah, have a good day.

00:44:53.843 --> 00:44:54.676
Bye.

00:44:57.535 --> 00:44:59.546
They let her vote with a regular ballot.

00:44:59.546 --> 00:45:00.379
- Huh?

00:45:00.379 --> 00:45:01.911
- They let her vote with a regular ballot

00:45:01.911 --> 00:45:02.744
at the other precinct.

00:45:02.744 --> 00:45:03.577
- At the other place?

00:45:03.577 --> 00:45:04.538
- Yep.

00:45:04.538 --> 00:45:05.371
They let her go ahead and do it.

00:45:05.371 --> 00:45:06.492
- See?

00:45:06.492 --> 00:45:08.300
- Excuse me, did everything go okay in there?

00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:09.156
- Perfect, thank you.

00:45:09.156 --> 00:45:10.094
- Everything was perfect?

00:45:10.094 --> 00:45:10.927
Great.

00:45:10.927 --> 00:45:12.027
Do you mind if I take a picture of you?

00:45:12.027 --> 00:45:12.930
I\'ve been interested.

00:45:12.930 --> 00:45:14.120
I wanna take pictures of people

00:45:14.120 --> 00:45:15.088
who bring their kids to vote.

00:45:15.088 --> 00:45:16.087
- Sure.

00:45:16.087 --> 00:45:17.837
- I think it\'s great.

00:45:23.367 --> 00:45:25.342
Did I see you go in with some other kids too, or...?

00:45:25.342 --> 00:45:26.672
- Yeah, my daughter and wife\'s here.

00:45:26.672 --> 00:45:28.169
- You wanna wait and do a family portrait

00:45:28.169 --> 00:45:30.002
and have all the kids?

00:45:31.018 --> 00:45:33.406
I really like when people bring their kids to vote

00:45:33.406 --> 00:45:36.714
\'cause my parents used to take me when I was their age.

00:45:38.900 --> 00:45:40.305
I\'ve been taking pictures of people

00:45:40.305 --> 00:45:42.430
who bring their children in to vote.

00:45:42.430 --> 00:45:45.463
This is how we keep voting going into the future, I think.

00:45:45.463 --> 00:45:47.630
- Wonderful.
- The next generation.

00:46:03.734 --> 00:46:04.567
- So, let\'s see.

00:46:04.567 --> 00:46:06.484
It\'s almost 4:30.

00:46:08.304 --> 00:46:11.229
We have a little more than three hours to go

00:46:11.229 --> 00:46:14.877
so we\'ll see what it is when everybody comes from work.

00:46:14.877 --> 00:46:17.310
Ma\'am, ma\'am, it\'s this door.

00:46:17.310 --> 00:46:21.557
And if you have any trouble voting, please come and see me.

00:46:21.557 --> 00:46:24.468
Here\'s what I\'d like to ask you to do, because--

00:46:24.468 --> 00:46:25.396
[sighing]

00:46:25.396 --> 00:46:28.017
I know this is so frustrating.

00:46:28.500 --> 00:46:31.721
Did you just have to vote by a provisional ballot?

00:46:32.579 --> 00:46:37.520
Your name in here and here, city of Fayetteville,

00:46:37.520 --> 00:46:40.873
Cumberland County, and what they said to you.

00:46:41.656 --> 00:46:43.910
- One woman in a car called me over.

00:46:43.910 --> 00:46:47.600
She saw the sign and she said, \"I can\'t fill out the ballot.

00:46:47.600 --> 00:46:49.162
I\'m gonna need help.\"

00:46:49.162 --> 00:46:53.584
And at that point, Mr. Crabby saw me talking to this woman

00:46:53.584 --> 00:46:55.684
in the car, like, over there,

00:46:55.684 --> 00:46:58.783
and he came running out and he said, \"You gotta back off,

00:46:58.783 --> 00:47:02.002
you\'re not allowed to talk to my voters.\"

00:47:02.002 --> 00:47:04.652
So I said to him, \"She wants to vote,

00:47:04.652 --> 00:47:06.321
but she needs help with writing,

00:47:06.321 --> 00:47:08.103
so you need to get someone to help her

00:47:08.103 --> 00:47:10.737
when she gets her car down to the front of the line.\"

00:47:10.737 --> 00:47:12.853
He said, \"No, she needs a family member.\"

00:47:12.853 --> 00:47:16.577
I had the book here and I said, \"I have the law right here.\"

00:47:16.577 --> 00:47:18.517
So I showed him and we read it together.

00:47:18.517 --> 00:47:20.862
As he read it, he said, \"Oh, okay.\"

00:47:20.862 --> 00:47:22.025
He didn\'t know it.

00:47:22.025 --> 00:47:25.992
So, I said, \"Look, I\'m just trying to help the voters vote.

00:47:25.992 --> 00:47:27.470
I\'m not here to challenge you.

00:47:27.470 --> 00:47:29.337
I\'m not threatening, but I have the law here

00:47:29.337 --> 00:47:30.414
and I can help.\"

00:47:30.414 --> 00:47:33.796
And he kind of-- I saw him kind of visibly relax.

00:47:33.796 --> 00:47:34.955
And then when she got to the bottom,

00:47:34.955 --> 00:47:36.803
the woman who was doing the curbside

00:47:36.803 --> 00:47:38.857
had already been instructed by him that she was gonna

00:47:38.857 --> 00:47:40.602
help her fill the ballot out

00:47:40.602 --> 00:47:44.435
so that she could vote and I thought, victory!

00:47:52.556 --> 00:47:53.820
- [Mark] You wanted to know the count?

00:47:53.820 --> 00:47:54.767
- [Steve] Oh yeah, that would be great.

00:47:54.767 --> 00:47:55.770
- [Mark] 646.

00:47:55.770 --> 00:47:56.686
- [Steve] 646, great.

00:47:56.686 --> 00:47:57.519
- Yep.

00:47:57.519 --> 00:47:58.659
- By the way, I still have all that candy.

00:47:58.659 --> 00:48:00.750
I don\'t know if anybody wants any.

00:48:00.750 --> 00:48:01.583
- That\'s alright.

00:48:01.583 --> 00:48:02.702
Don\'t let them throw the trash out.

00:48:02.702 --> 00:48:04.327
- [Steve] Okay, thanks.

00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:07.193
646.

00:48:11.042 --> 00:48:12.883
[siren blaring]

00:48:14.475 --> 00:48:15.950
[phone chiming]

00:48:41.707 --> 00:48:42.948
[phone chiming]

00:48:43.623 --> 00:48:46.623
[Phone ringing]

00:48:49.192 --> 00:48:50.395
- [Phil] Hey, Laverne.

00:48:50.395 --> 00:48:53.024
- Hey, Phil, I was able to get the car

00:48:53.024 --> 00:48:56.606
to pick me up and so I\'ve just started off.

00:48:56.606 --> 00:48:59.439
I should continue on to Cliffdale?

00:49:00.631 --> 00:49:02.078
- [Phil] Yeah, you can go ahead on to Cliffdale.

00:49:02.078 --> 00:49:04.455
There may be at least one other person outside now,

00:49:04.455 --> 00:49:06.487
but frankly, if the issues are really bad,

00:49:06.487 --> 00:49:08.787
we\'re gonna need multiple people there.

00:49:08.787 --> 00:49:09.620
- Hey Sean.

00:49:09.620 --> 00:49:10.976
We\'ve been here at the Cliffdale Recreation Center

00:49:10.976 --> 00:49:12.772
for the last four hours and I tell you,

00:49:12.772 --> 00:49:15.160
voter turnout here has been consistent.

00:49:15.160 --> 00:49:17.659
Right now, you see about 50 people.

00:49:17.659 --> 00:49:18.492
- [Laverne] Hi there.

00:49:18.492 --> 00:49:20.671
Can I offer you some candy? Because I have a lot.

00:49:20.671 --> 00:49:21.689
[laughing]

00:49:21.689 --> 00:49:22.548
- Yes, ma\'am.

00:49:22.548 --> 00:49:23.930
- [Laverne] There are various, you know,

00:49:23.930 --> 00:49:26.247
you might have to dig around and see what you find.

00:49:26.247 --> 00:49:27.080
- I\'ll just take a piece.

00:49:27.080 --> 00:49:28.490
I appreciate that.

00:49:29.115 --> 00:49:30.817
- So, I\'m out here just to make sure

00:49:30.817 --> 00:49:32.735
that everybody gets their vote in.

00:49:32.735 --> 00:49:36.534
I wanna make sure that I can do as much as I can

00:49:36.534 --> 00:49:38.961
to make sure that your vote goes in tonight.

00:49:38.961 --> 00:49:39.878
- Okay.
- Okay?

00:49:39.878 --> 00:49:40.711
- I appreciate it.

00:49:40.711 --> 00:49:42.629
- Why wouldn\'t I be able to vote?

00:49:42.629 --> 00:49:44.922
- Well, there are some things that have been happening.

00:49:44.922 --> 00:49:47.210
People are-- have been ending up--

00:49:47.210 --> 00:49:49.377
Voting is an act of faith.

00:49:50.602 --> 00:49:53.970
The person that\'s casting that vote

00:49:53.970 --> 00:49:56.822
is believing in the system.

00:49:56.822 --> 00:49:58.260
It\'s that belief.

00:49:58.260 --> 00:50:02.577
I mean, if everyone has that belief,

00:50:02.577 --> 00:50:04.852
then you can get somewhere.

00:50:05.610 --> 00:50:08.626
If you are throwing obstacles

00:50:08.626 --> 00:50:11.432
in the way of being able to vote,

00:50:11.432 --> 00:50:14.591
if everyone has no belief,

00:50:15.236 --> 00:50:18.019
then you\'ll lose those votes.

00:50:18.964 --> 00:50:21.631
And that\'s not really democracy.

00:50:23.153 --> 00:50:24.087
Hi, ma\'am, what\'s up?

00:50:24.087 --> 00:50:24.924
- Hi.

00:50:25.224 --> 00:50:27.012
I had to have my ID card even though they said

00:50:27.012 --> 00:50:28.488
you don\'t have to have your ID card

00:50:28.488 --> 00:50:29.972
and I didn\'t have it with me.

00:50:29.972 --> 00:50:30.805
- Really?

00:50:30.805 --> 00:50:32.199
They told you that you needed your ID card?

00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:34.187
- Yeah, I had to come back.

00:50:34.187 --> 00:50:35.273
This is my second time being here.

00:50:35.273 --> 00:50:37.856
I waited in line for 30 minutes earlier

00:50:37.856 --> 00:50:38.847
and then they were, like,

00:50:38.847 --> 00:50:41.098
I got up there and she said it says it\'s invalid

00:50:41.098 --> 00:50:42.816
but yet I\'m the only one in my household

00:50:42.816 --> 00:50:45.866
out of four of us that got anything about voting.

00:50:45.866 --> 00:50:48.723
- I thought the provisional was supposed to be in place

00:50:48.723 --> 00:50:53.279
and at the discretion of the Board of Elections.

00:50:53.279 --> 00:50:54.132
- Yes.

00:50:54.132 --> 00:50:56.323
- That\'s not being exercised here at Cliffdale,

00:50:56.323 --> 00:50:58.303
there are a lot of people being turned away.

00:50:58.303 --> 00:51:00.452
- [Laverne] And saying that they can\'t vote provisionally?

00:51:00.452 --> 00:51:01.285
- Yes Ma\'am.

00:51:01.285 --> 00:51:02.118
- Okay.

00:51:08.515 --> 00:51:10.275
I\'m feeling a little sad

00:51:10.275 --> 00:51:13.273
because there have been some issues today.

00:51:13.273 --> 00:51:16.602
I wish that right now I was having

00:51:16.602 --> 00:51:18.432
more people ask me questions

00:51:18.432 --> 00:51:23.432
because there are questions that needed to be answered.

00:51:23.479 --> 00:51:25.429
But, unfortunately,

00:51:25.429 --> 00:51:29.158
people are acquiescing to what\'s going on

00:51:29.158 --> 00:51:32.171
because they feel there is nothing that can be done

00:51:32.171 --> 00:51:33.421
and going home.

00:52:19.553 --> 00:52:22.063
- Glad to see you in one piece.

00:52:22.788 --> 00:52:23.846
- You too.

00:52:23.846 --> 00:52:25.751
- I had an inside guy and he kept on telling me

00:52:25.751 --> 00:52:28.825
about provisional votes and then when he left,

00:52:28.825 --> 00:52:30.297
it was very hard, you know,

00:52:30.297 --> 00:52:33.547
I talked to people before they went in when I could

00:52:33.547 --> 00:52:35.020
and then talked to them when they came out,

00:52:35.020 --> 00:52:38.441
but, like, people were saying, \"It was fine, it was fine,\"

00:52:38.441 --> 00:52:40.305
and then you dig a little deep

00:52:40.305 --> 00:52:43.771
and you\'d found they\'d done a provisional ballot.

00:52:45.481 --> 00:52:49.971
But I think the people in this office were pretty...

00:52:50.271 --> 00:52:51.104
- Pretty good?

00:52:51.104 --> 00:52:52.066
- Pretty good, yeah.

00:52:52.066 --> 00:52:53.070
- Oh well, that\'s good.

00:52:53.070 --> 00:52:57.968
I mean, that is much, much, much more than half the battle.

00:52:57.968 --> 00:52:58.872
- Yeah.

00:52:58.872 --> 00:52:59.705
Yeah.

00:53:07.415 --> 00:53:12.265
- So, has any place said anything about anything?

00:53:15.417 --> 00:53:16.713
Results-wise?

00:53:16.713 --> 00:53:17.839
- I did see something.

00:53:17.839 --> 00:53:19.506
Vermont for Hillary.

00:53:20.346 --> 00:53:22.929
Indiana and Kentucky for Trump.

00:53:26.112 --> 00:53:28.604
- Steve always makes me laugh.

00:53:28.604 --> 00:53:31.254
I mean, he has time to take pictures.

00:53:31.254 --> 00:53:35.372
[laughs] He\'s just, he\'s so busy, that Steve.

00:53:35.372 --> 00:53:37.372
- He has such resources.

00:53:38.230 --> 00:53:39.063
- I know.

00:53:39.063 --> 00:53:40.796
He\'s so busy.

00:53:43.452 --> 00:53:44.986
[phone chiming]

00:53:51.536 --> 00:53:53.323
- So you\'re still looking for the provisional ballot

00:53:53.323 --> 00:53:54.567
that should be in here?

00:53:54.567 --> 00:53:55.842
- [Mark] Yeah, should be in here.

00:53:59.680 --> 00:54:00.513
- So what happened?

00:54:00.513 --> 00:54:02.195
The person just got up and walked over to the machine

00:54:02.195 --> 00:54:03.538
and put it in or...?

00:54:03.538 --> 00:54:04.378
- [Mark] Yeah, yeah.

00:54:04.378 --> 00:54:06.927
And the girl that was watching the machine--

00:54:06.927 --> 00:54:07.815
- [Woman] Didn\'t catch it.

00:54:07.815 --> 00:54:10.185
- [Steve] Didn\'t catch it \'til it was too late.

00:54:10.185 --> 00:54:11.579
- [Mark] There\'s nothing we can do about that

00:54:11.579 --> 00:54:13.629
besides what we\'re doing now.

00:54:17.047 --> 00:54:19.380
- All because of one person.

00:54:21.205 --> 00:54:22.038
- One job.

00:54:24.835 --> 00:54:26.202
- I wish I could help.

00:54:26.202 --> 00:54:27.335
- Yeah.

00:54:27.335 --> 00:54:30.378
- It would go faster with two more people, you know?

00:54:31.045 --> 00:54:32.793
I don\'t\' think we\'re allowed to touch those.

00:54:32.793 --> 00:54:34.073
[laughing]

00:54:34.665 --> 00:54:35.838
- Appreciate the offer though.

00:54:35.838 --> 00:54:36.671
- Yeah.

00:54:38.057 --> 00:54:39.388
- Moral support.

00:54:39.388 --> 00:54:40.221
- Yeah.

00:54:42.578 --> 00:54:46.325
- I have a perfect ballot and I have to try... [laughing]

00:54:46.325 --> 00:54:47.158
- You got it!

00:54:47.158 --> 00:54:47.991
[cheering and applauding]

00:54:47.991 --> 00:54:48.824
- Whoa!

00:54:49.818 --> 00:54:51.730
Does she get some kind of prize?

00:54:52.188 --> 00:54:53.254
Lemme see the P.

00:54:53.254 --> 00:54:54.087
Let me see the--

00:54:54.087 --> 00:54:55.209
- The P.
- There is it.

00:54:55.209 --> 00:54:56.800
And it wasn\'t folded.

00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:57.660
- Alright.
- It was folded.

00:54:57.660 --> 00:54:58.721
- See the fold?
- It was.

00:54:58.721 --> 00:55:00.978
- See the fold?
- Yeah, but why didn\'t--?

00:55:00.978 --> 00:55:02.051
- Why didn\'t we see it before?

00:55:02.051 --> 00:55:03.408
Who knows?

00:55:03.408 --> 00:55:05.327
- [Steve] Alright, well, it was great meeting you.

00:55:05.327 --> 00:55:06.986
- It was great meeting you.
- Yeah.

00:55:06.986 --> 00:55:08.342
And you too.

00:55:08.342 --> 00:55:09.675
- Thank you.
- Thank you.

00:55:09.675 --> 00:55:10.508
- Yes, sir.

00:55:10.508 --> 00:55:11.807
- Good luck and thanks for everything today.

00:55:11.807 --> 00:55:12.778
- Yes.

00:55:12.778 --> 00:55:13.611
- Okay.

00:55:13.611 --> 00:55:14.444
Take care.

00:55:14.444 --> 00:55:15.277
You too.

00:55:22.417 --> 00:55:23.826
[exhaling]

00:55:24.201 --> 00:55:25.701
That was grueling.

00:55:27.144 --> 00:55:29.669
I wanna hear about what happened to you.

00:55:30.594 --> 00:55:32.963
- [Laverne] [sighs] I got tired.

00:55:32.963 --> 00:55:33.820
[laughing]

00:55:33.820 --> 00:55:35.253
- Me too.

00:55:35.253 --> 00:55:36.530
- Can somebody tell me something

00:55:36.530 --> 00:55:39.087
that isn\'t bad news about the results coming in?

00:55:39.087 --> 00:55:40.050
Has anybody heard anything?

00:55:40.050 --> 00:55:42.944
- Well, the New York Times is saying that

00:55:42.944 --> 00:55:45.014
from the numbers that are coming in already

00:55:45.014 --> 00:55:48.131
they\'re predicting that Hillary has an 81% chance

00:55:48.131 --> 00:55:52.624
of winning tonight, and there\'s a 51% chance that the Senate

00:55:52.624 --> 00:55:55.463
is gonna go Democratic as of the early returns.

00:55:55.463 --> 00:55:57.046
- [Claire] Only 51?

00:55:58.324 --> 00:55:59.157
- Yeah.

00:56:05.982 --> 00:56:09.065
So they\'re giving Nevada to Clinton,

00:56:10.055 --> 00:56:13.805
Virginia to Clinton, Pennsylvania to Clinton,

00:56:14.995 --> 00:56:17.421
Michigan to Clinton.

00:56:17.421 --> 00:56:19.497
That was the one they were worried about yesterday.

00:56:19.497 --> 00:56:20.939
- [Claire] And Florida?

00:56:23.874 --> 00:56:26.791
- To Trump, they\'re giving Florida.

00:56:28.172 --> 00:56:31.481
Florida, oop, they\'re giving Trump North Carolina.

00:56:31.481 --> 00:56:32.631
[gasping]

00:56:36.818 --> 00:56:37.818
- Oh my god.

00:56:40.546 --> 00:56:41.696
- And Ohio.

00:56:45.713 --> 00:56:47.613
Clinton 276,

00:56:47.621 --> 00:56:49.066
275,

00:56:49.066 --> 00:56:50.010
273.

00:56:50.010 --> 00:56:51.228
It keeps changing.

00:56:51.228 --> 00:56:52.741
Trump, 271.

00:56:52.741 --> 00:56:55.188
It\'s shifting as they\'re getting more reports in.

00:56:55.188 --> 00:56:56.254
- [Claire] It\'s close though.

00:56:56.254 --> 00:56:58.262
- It\'s so close that it\'s going back and forth

00:56:58.262 --> 00:56:59.679
across that line.

00:57:02.868 --> 00:57:05.619
- [Reporter] Here are the too close to call states.

00:57:05.619 --> 00:57:08.259
Florida of the battlegrounds,

00:57:08.259 --> 00:57:09.342
Pennsylvania,

00:57:11.704 --> 00:57:12.537
Ohio,

00:57:14.537 --> 00:57:15.370
Georgia,

00:57:17.534 --> 00:57:18.675
Michigan.

00:57:19.175 --> 00:57:20.527
- [Claire] Jake Simpson.

00:57:20.527 --> 00:57:22.639
That\'s my son.
- North Carolina.

00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.410
- [Claire] Very articulately says,

00:57:24.410 --> 00:57:28.969
\"This shit is fucking scary,\" in his text to his mother.

00:57:30.877 --> 00:57:34.169
- It\'s all about the percentages that are in here.

00:57:34.169 --> 00:57:35.002
- Yeah.

00:57:37.252 --> 00:57:39.235
- You can\'t buy into the rest of it.

00:57:46.562 --> 00:57:48.420
- I don\'t know what to say.

00:57:48.420 --> 00:57:49.253
- I don\'t know.

00:57:49.253 --> 00:57:50.086
I\'m speechless.

00:57:50.086 --> 00:57:50.919
I\'m like--

00:57:50.919 --> 00:57:52.336
I\'m really--

00:57:52.336 --> 00:57:54.374
I\'m like numb and empty.

00:57:54.374 --> 00:57:57.051
- [Claire] Have you, like, lost all hope?

00:57:57.051 --> 00:57:58.589
Like, do you think it\'s over?

00:57:58.589 --> 00:57:59.422
Or do you--?

00:57:59.422 --> 00:58:00.255
- I don\'t know.

00:58:00.255 --> 00:58:02.886
My father actually was trying to bolster me.

00:58:02.886 --> 00:58:05.203
My father was just saying, \"It\'s not over yet.\"

00:58:05.203 --> 00:58:06.036
\"It\'s too close.\"

00:58:06.036 --> 00:58:07.744
\"Don\'t give up.\"

00:58:07.744 --> 00:58:09.462
\"It\'s not definitive.\"

00:58:09.462 --> 00:58:10.441
You know.

00:58:10.441 --> 00:58:11.722
That\'s my dad.

00:58:12.414 --> 00:58:14.461
- [Reporter] Now that will give them

00:58:14.461 --> 00:58:17.844
a patch of blue west of Texas.

00:58:21.990 --> 00:58:24.754
- Are we gonna really do this to ourselves?

00:58:24.754 --> 00:58:27.447
- Well, you don\'t have to.
- What should we do?

00:58:27.447 --> 00:58:29.307
- I can\'t, I mean, every little county

00:58:29.307 --> 00:58:31.111
we\'re gonna have to watch them tell us

00:58:31.111 --> 00:58:34.743
why they switched over to Trump after voting for Obama?

00:58:34.743 --> 00:58:38.334
I mean, I don\'t even understand what\'s happening.

00:58:42.194 --> 00:58:43.592
- We probably should eat something.

00:58:43.592 --> 00:58:45.448
Maybe that would make us feel a little better.

00:58:45.448 --> 00:58:48.798
- Where does humanity and human dignity end up in this crap?

00:58:48.798 --> 00:58:52.177
He\'s like the representative of every disgusting,

00:58:52.177 --> 00:58:55.327
bad, negative, worst part of human nature

00:58:55.327 --> 00:58:57.594
value that\'s out there.

00:58:57.594 --> 00:58:58.894
I mean, all I keep seeing is him

00:58:58.894 --> 00:59:01.171
mocking that journalist who\'s handicapped

00:59:01.171 --> 00:59:03.904
and laughing while he\'s, like, twisting himself.

00:59:03.904 --> 00:59:07.593
That\'s who they want him-- I mean, who votes for that?

00:59:08.560 --> 00:59:10.227
And the pussy thing?

00:59:11.986 --> 00:59:13.633
And he didn\'t pay taxes.

00:59:13.633 --> 00:59:14.982
And he never gave his--

00:59:14.982 --> 00:59:17.373
what the fuck are they all voting for?

00:59:17.373 --> 00:59:19.456
What are they voting for?

00:59:22.348 --> 00:59:23.349
What are they voting for?

00:59:23.349 --> 00:59:24.890
They\'re voting for that?

00:59:24.890 --> 00:59:26.085
That\'s all he represents.

00:59:26.085 --> 00:59:27.720
He didn\'t represent anything else.

00:59:27.720 --> 00:59:30.223
He never presented any other value.

00:59:31.156 --> 00:59:32.280
I don\'t understand.

00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:33.113
They\'re humans.

00:59:33.113 --> 00:59:35.827
They\'ve been brought up in families with decent parents.

00:59:35.827 --> 00:59:38.827
How can they accept that and validate it?

00:59:57.431 --> 00:59:59.143
He has no boundaries.

00:59:59.143 --> 00:59:59.976
- [Trista] I know.

00:59:59.976 --> 01:00:03.089
- He has no boundaries and no understanding of democracy

01:00:03.089 --> 01:00:04.952
and no respect for the institutions

01:00:04.952 --> 01:00:07.471
and they\'re going to crumble in front of him

01:00:07.471 --> 01:00:10.325
because they\'re not strong enough to withstand that crap.

01:00:10.325 --> 01:00:12.031
This is how democracies end.

01:00:12.031 --> 01:00:15.255
This is like we just elected Caligula.

01:00:15.255 --> 01:00:17.822
This is the end of the Roman Empire, this is--

01:00:21.409 --> 01:00:23.659
[laughing]

01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:26.182
You don\'t think so?

01:00:28.467 --> 01:00:29.300
I\'m sorry.

01:00:29.300 --> 01:00:30.734
I\'m really feeling all of this.

01:00:30.734 --> 01:00:32.151
- That\'s alright.

01:00:33.886 --> 01:00:36.675
It\'s a completely appropriate hysteria.

01:00:36.675 --> 01:00:37.508
- Hysteria.

01:00:37.508 --> 01:00:38.341
I\'m sorry.
- Yes.

01:00:38.341 --> 01:00:39.958
No, I can tell it\'s hysteria from Claire.

01:00:39.958 --> 01:00:40.964
- I\'m not disagreeing with you.

01:00:40.964 --> 01:00:44.910
I\'ve got no basis to disagree with you, but I\'m just--

01:00:44.910 --> 01:00:46.564
I\'m sitting here thinking

01:00:46.564 --> 01:00:48.738
I wanna go lie in a hot bath with, like,

01:00:48.738 --> 01:00:51.245
a glass this tall of whiskey

01:00:51.245 --> 01:00:52.912
and I\'m sitting here

01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:55.702
with no whiskey.

01:00:55.702 --> 01:00:57.752
[laughing]

01:00:59.876 --> 01:01:02.427
And you\'re coming in every five seconds

01:01:02.427 --> 01:01:04.592
to announce the end of the world.

01:01:04.592 --> 01:01:05.425
- [Steve] Right.

01:01:05.425 --> 01:01:06.890
I\'m sorry.
- The complete.

01:01:06.890 --> 01:01:08.549
- [Steve] It\'s just, in my head, it\'s coming out.

01:01:08.549 --> 01:01:10.184
It\'s how I\'m feeling.

01:01:10.643 --> 01:01:12.718
- We\'re all in complete shock.

01:01:14.310 --> 01:01:16.726
But these fuckers have been sitting,

01:01:16.726 --> 01:01:20.927
talking, I mean MSNBC are the least guilty.

01:01:20.927 --> 01:01:22.510
- Egregious, yeah.

01:01:22.510 --> 01:01:23.760
- But them too.

01:01:24.725 --> 01:01:26.635
Not dealing with any issues.

01:01:26.635 --> 01:01:28.735
Not doing anything to educate the populace.

01:01:28.735 --> 01:01:30.144
Just \"Trump, Trump, Trump.\"

01:01:30.144 --> 01:01:31.397
That\'s all they\'ve talked about.

01:01:31.397 --> 01:01:32.897
- [Steve] Right, I know.

01:01:37.132 --> 01:01:37.965
- Oh.

01:01:37.965 --> 01:01:39.409
It is so fucked up.

01:01:39.867 --> 01:01:41.406
- I\'m getting texts, really, where

01:01:41.406 --> 01:01:44.537
my friend Robin just wrote like 10 times

01:01:44.537 --> 01:01:47.131
\"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.\"

01:01:47.131 --> 01:01:48.589
- [Claire] I\'m not going on Facebook,

01:01:48.589 --> 01:01:49.775
because all this sort of--

01:01:49.775 --> 01:01:51.735
- Oh yeah, I don\'t need that social media thing

01:01:51.735 --> 01:01:53.610
adding to this.
- Screaming.

01:01:53.610 --> 01:01:55.185
- Sort of like what I\'m doing to you.

01:01:55.185 --> 01:01:58.048
[laughing]

01:01:58.048 --> 01:01:59.435
- Steve.
- Now I got it.

01:01:59.435 --> 01:02:00.346
Okay, no.

01:02:00.346 --> 01:02:01.179
You know what?

01:02:01.179 --> 01:02:02.012
I got it.

01:02:02.012 --> 01:02:03.512
I\'m gonna stop it.

01:02:06.083 --> 01:02:07.916
- [Laverne] Food?

01:02:07.916 --> 01:02:10.326
- [Claire] Is that what you wanna do?

01:02:10.326 --> 01:02:12.051
- I think I wanna eat some food.

01:02:12.051 --> 01:02:14.371
- Okay.
- Is anybody hungry?

01:02:14.371 --> 01:02:17.746
- No, but I think it\'s a thing.

01:02:18.342 --> 01:02:19.544
I think I\'m gonna do that thing.

01:02:19.544 --> 01:02:20.413
- It\'s a thing.

01:02:20.422 --> 01:02:23.107
- [Laverne] Yeah, it\'s something for me to do.

01:02:24.557 --> 01:02:25.955
- I would join you.

01:02:25.955 --> 01:02:27.238
- [Laverne] Okay.

01:02:27.238 --> 01:02:28.511
- [Claire] I will join you, too.

01:02:28.511 --> 01:02:29.344
- Yeah?

01:02:34.506 --> 01:02:37.196
We\'ve talked a lot about policy this weekend,

01:02:37.196 --> 01:02:40.696
which is amazingly important.

01:02:41.319 --> 01:02:43.129
This is about process.

01:02:43.129 --> 01:02:46.711
If you make it so hard and complicated

01:02:46.711 --> 01:02:50.458
for someone to be able to vote today,

01:02:50.458 --> 01:02:53.858
do you think that they\'ll do that again four years from now

01:02:53.858 --> 01:02:56.935
or two years from now or six years from now?

01:02:56.935 --> 01:03:01.935
But you don\'t wanna hear people say, like we have heard,

01:03:02.204 --> 01:03:03.903
\"Well, my vote doesn\'t count

01:03:03.903 --> 01:03:05.964
\'cause I can\'t even get in there to vote.\"

01:03:05.964 --> 01:03:07.829
- There\'s one thing I wanted to also point out

01:03:07.829 --> 01:03:11.445
when we talk about how critical this work is.

01:03:11.445 --> 01:03:14.590
I mentioned earlier the situation in North Carolina

01:03:14.590 --> 01:03:16.635
just before election day when we found out

01:03:16.635 --> 01:03:18.962
voters had been purged from the polls

01:03:18.962 --> 01:03:22.380
and that was in three counties in North Carolina.

01:03:22.380 --> 01:03:26.345
The NAACP only had the evidence and the resources

01:03:26.345 --> 01:03:29.350
to bring a lawsuit immediately for those three counties,

01:03:29.350 --> 01:03:31.842
but North Carolina has 100 counties

01:03:31.842 --> 01:03:34.662
and all I kept thinking all day on election day is,

01:03:34.662 --> 01:03:37.389
what about the other 97 counties?

01:03:37.389 --> 01:03:40.150
- There\'s a lot of education that needs to occur

01:03:40.150 --> 01:03:43.375
because I think people are aware that there\'s a problem.

01:03:43.375 --> 01:03:44.697
I don\'t believe people are aware,

01:03:44.697 --> 01:03:46.454
and I certainly wasn\'t until just now,

01:03:46.454 --> 01:03:48.327
of the extent of the problem.

01:03:48.327 --> 01:03:50.908
The number, Laverne, that you just shared about 1200 people

01:03:50.908 --> 01:03:54.241
showing up to vote and only 598 of them

01:03:54.241 --> 01:03:56.731
able to cast a vote, is extraordinary.

01:03:56.731 --> 01:03:57.886
It\'s absolutely extraordinary.

01:03:57.886 --> 01:04:01.704
And that to me brings it into stark relief in a way that

01:04:01.704 --> 01:04:05.034
nothing I\'ve seen up to this moment has ever done.

01:04:07.275 --> 01:04:10.358
[piano music]

01:04:21.973 --> 01:04:24.500
- We\'ve had a lot of people

01:04:24.500 --> 01:04:28.025
saying that racism don\'t exist.

01:04:28.589 --> 01:04:31.255
Sexism is not real.

01:04:31.866 --> 01:04:36.304
You know, religion is no problem, you know, and all that.

01:04:36.304 --> 01:04:40.821
You know, in America, they never operated fair.

01:04:41.755 --> 01:04:43.045
Never.

01:04:43.045 --> 01:04:44.610
So why do we think that

01:04:44.610 --> 01:04:47.377
it\'s just gonna happen all of a sudden?

01:04:49.240 --> 01:04:50.379
It never been fair.

01:04:51.546 --> 01:04:52.379
Never.

01:04:53.463 --> 01:04:57.090
- The history of our country is a history of struggle

01:04:57.090 --> 01:05:01.289
for the right to have a voice and the right to have a say

01:05:01.289 --> 01:05:04.880
in the political decisions that impact our daily lives.

01:05:07.246 --> 01:05:10.949
- My feeling was, we\'ve done it before, it should be over.

01:05:12.007 --> 01:05:13.174
We\'ve done it.

01:05:14.095 --> 01:05:16.205
Now let\'s move on and fix some other things?

01:05:16.205 --> 01:05:17.074
Oh no?

01:05:17.074 --> 01:05:19.041
We\'re back here fixing this again?

01:05:19.041 --> 01:05:21.969
- People who control power in our country

01:05:21.969 --> 01:05:24.484
want to make it difficult for us to show up.

01:05:24.484 --> 01:05:27.096
They want it to be hard for us to cast a ballot.

01:05:27.096 --> 01:05:28.420
They want us to be confused

01:05:28.420 --> 01:05:30.761
by which political district that we\'re in.

01:05:30.761 --> 01:05:33.130
We have to push back against that.

01:05:33.130 --> 01:05:35.456
- [Steve] I\'ve definitely come to a point

01:05:35.456 --> 01:05:37.978
over being kind of fed up with both parties.

01:05:37.978 --> 01:05:40.553
They both abuse the system when it\'s in their interest

01:05:40.553 --> 01:05:43.850
and then complain about it when the other party does it.

01:05:43.850 --> 01:05:46.441
As I\'ve met more people in North Carolina

01:05:46.441 --> 01:05:50.176
who are doing this work in a nonpartisan way,

01:05:50.176 --> 01:05:51.646
I\'ve realized in the future

01:05:51.646 --> 01:05:53.871
I think that\'s how I wanna do it.

01:06:01.688 --> 01:06:03.153
- All right.

01:06:03.153 --> 01:06:04.236
How you doin?

01:06:10.956 --> 01:06:12.233
Y\'all come on in the room.

01:06:12.233 --> 01:06:13.316
Come on in the room.

01:06:13.316 --> 01:06:14.149
[Steve laughs]

01:06:14.149 --> 01:06:14.982
How you doin?

01:06:14.982 --> 01:06:15.815
- Hello, Reverend Barber.

01:06:15.815 --> 01:06:16.926
- How you doing?

01:06:17.859 --> 01:06:21.426
The narrative that we\'re dealing with politically

01:06:21.426 --> 01:06:24.268
has been so diminished,

01:06:24.268 --> 01:06:28.456
it\'s like if you diminish the blood flow to the heart,

01:06:28.456 --> 01:06:29.464
it\'s gonna stop.

01:06:31.006 --> 01:06:34.605
So voting is part of that blood flow.

01:06:35.530 --> 01:06:38.290
You know, that until we have a movement that says

01:06:38.290 --> 01:06:42.093
we\'re not gonna accept this anymore as our moral narrative,

01:06:42.093 --> 01:06:46.175
then we are gonna have this constant problem

01:06:46.175 --> 01:06:48.974
with the very heart and soul of the democracy.

01:06:48.974 --> 01:06:52.883
- There\'s a part of me that\'s a real pragmatist

01:06:52.883 --> 01:06:56.750
and I need the inspiration

01:06:57.460 --> 01:06:59.818
and I need the direction,

01:07:01.253 --> 01:07:04.443
but then it\'s all about, okay,

01:07:04.443 --> 01:07:07.483
what do we need to do now to get from here to there?

01:07:07.483 --> 01:07:09.744
- Do we wanna do something for the primary?

01:07:09.744 --> 01:07:11.922
And if we wanna do something for the primary,

01:07:11.922 --> 01:07:13.978
then we have a shorter time frame.

01:07:13.978 --> 01:07:16.790
- We\'re gonna need to assign people within that committee

01:07:16.790 --> 01:07:18.330
to do different things,

01:07:18.330 --> 01:07:20.591
like somebody can do the outreach

01:07:20.591 --> 01:07:23.051
to the nonprofits on the ground.

01:07:23.051 --> 01:07:26.281
- Maybe we could even organize training sessions here

01:07:26.281 --> 01:07:27.832
in New York before the election

01:07:27.832 --> 01:07:29.282
so people could go down prepared.

01:07:29.282 --> 01:07:30.632
- [Diane] Are we looking to do more phone banking?

01:07:30.632 --> 01:07:31.488
- I think we should.

01:07:31.488 --> 01:07:32.976
I mean, we should talk about that on Sunday actually.

01:07:32.976 --> 01:07:33.870
- Okay.

01:07:33.870 --> 01:07:35.665
- There are so many people on the left who have been,

01:07:35.665 --> 01:07:36.920
like, activated, right?

01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:37.753
- [Steve] Right.

01:07:37.753 --> 01:07:39.126
- When we had the brunch the other day and it was like,

01:07:39.126 --> 01:07:40.358
who are your people?

01:07:40.358 --> 01:07:42.349
And I copped, like, my people are, like,

01:07:42.349 --> 01:07:44.114
centrist democrats who are waking up.

01:07:44.114 --> 01:07:44.947
- [Steve] Yeah, right!

01:07:44.947 --> 01:07:47.218
- And realizing these battles have been going on for a while

01:07:47.218 --> 01:07:49.637
and, like, I\'m sorry I\'m late to the party, but I\'m here.

01:07:49.637 --> 01:07:51.064
How do I help?

01:07:51.064 --> 01:07:52.015
So.

01:07:52.015 --> 01:07:53.669
- The traditions and the structures

01:07:53.669 --> 01:07:56.465
and the work that\'s involved in maintaining a democracy,

01:07:56.465 --> 01:07:58.214
they\'re not abstract.

01:07:58.214 --> 01:08:00.785
They\'re real tasks that we have to take on

01:08:00.785 --> 01:08:02.960
because nobody else is gonna do it for us.

01:08:07.634 --> 01:08:09.412
- By far the top.

01:08:09.412 --> 01:08:10.645
- This is my friend, Deb.

01:08:10.645 --> 01:08:11.588
- Hi, how are you?

01:08:11.588 --> 01:08:13.591
Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.

01:08:14.566 --> 01:08:16.531
- Hi, my name is Paul Curtis.

01:08:16.531 --> 01:08:18.262
I am with Team 4 NC.

01:08:18.262 --> 01:08:22.129
We\'re here to night because without exaggeration,

01:08:22.129 --> 01:08:24.760
the future of our nation is at stake.

01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:26.614
The survival of our democracy depends

01:08:26.614 --> 01:08:31.614
in so many concrete ways on what happens in the states.

01:08:31.747 --> 01:08:33.937
How do you dismantle American democracy?

01:08:33.937 --> 01:08:35.699
You do it at the state level

01:08:35.699 --> 01:08:38.569
by making it harder for people to vote,

01:08:38.569 --> 01:08:42.719
by gerrymandering legislative and congressional districts,

01:08:42.719 --> 01:08:44.749
by flooding state legislative elections

01:08:44.749 --> 01:08:46.796
with special interest money.

01:08:46.796 --> 01:08:50.379
So, how do you save our democracy?

01:08:50.379 --> 01:08:52.667
You do that by supporting the folks who are

01:08:52.667 --> 01:08:55.814
working at the state level to turn the tide.

01:08:55.814 --> 01:08:58.231
[applauding]

01:09:02.262 --> 01:09:03.739
- Hi there.

01:09:03.739 --> 01:09:05.614
I live in Brooklyn.

01:09:06.204 --> 01:09:09.438
I have no family in North Carolina,

01:09:09.971 --> 01:09:13.535
but I knew that the law there was complicated

01:09:13.535 --> 01:09:18.519
and I knew that someone had to be there watching.

01:09:19.348 --> 01:09:24.347
On that night, I knew that it\'s great to be there

01:09:24.644 --> 01:09:26.430
and do that work,

01:09:26.430 --> 01:09:30.527
but there\'s so much more work that has to happen

01:09:30.527 --> 01:09:33.417
between now and the next election.

01:09:33.417 --> 01:09:35.587
- One of the things we wanted to emphasize

01:09:35.587 --> 01:09:38.329
for all of you is that there is so much

01:09:38.329 --> 01:09:39.907
every single person can do

01:09:39.907 --> 01:09:43.115
and I wanted to read something to you from a speech

01:09:43.115 --> 01:09:45.254
that we were able to hear.

01:09:45.254 --> 01:09:47.883
We had the privilege of hearing Reverend Barber

01:09:47.883 --> 01:09:50.273
the day before election day.

01:09:50.273 --> 01:09:55.273
He started by saying, \"We better use what\'s in our hands.

01:09:55.549 --> 01:09:58.660
As God told Moses, don\'t cry.

01:09:58.660 --> 01:10:00.317
What\'s in your hand?

01:10:00.317 --> 01:10:02.237
I got a rod.\"

01:10:02.237 --> 01:10:04.479
And then he turned to the audience, and he said,

01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:07.112
\"What\'s in your hand? You got a vote.\"

01:10:07.112 --> 01:10:08.212
- [Reverend Barber] You got a vote.

01:10:08.212 --> 01:10:09.818
Don\'t worry about what Pharaoh\'s doing.

01:10:09.818 --> 01:10:11.733
Don\'t look at the mountains on your left and right,

01:10:11.733 --> 01:10:12.566
the Red Sea.

01:10:12.566 --> 01:10:13.868
What\'s in your hand?

01:10:13.868 --> 01:10:16.785
Go forward with what\'s in your hand.

01:10:16.785 --> 01:10:18.202
You got a vote in your hand.

01:10:18.202 --> 01:10:19.454
Use it.

01:10:19.454 --> 01:10:21.090
You got a car in your hand.

01:10:21.090 --> 01:10:22.402
Drive somebody to go vote.

01:10:22.402 --> 01:10:23.235
- [Audience] That\'s right.

01:10:23.235 --> 01:10:24.401
- [Reverend Barber] You got a truck in your hand.

01:10:24.401 --> 01:10:26.588
Haul somebody to go vote.

01:10:26.588 --> 01:10:27.772
You got a bus in your hand.

01:10:27.772 --> 01:10:29.606
Load some people on it and go vote.

01:10:29.606 --> 01:10:30.439
- [Audience] Amen.

01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:31.328
- [Reverend Barber] You have a cell phone in your hand.

01:10:31.328 --> 01:10:32.718
Call people to vote.

01:10:32.718 --> 01:10:34.237
- [Audience] That\'s right.

01:10:34.237 --> 01:10:37.250
- \'Cause this is no time for foolishness.

01:10:37.250 --> 01:10:38.828
The heart

01:10:38.828 --> 01:10:41.353
and the soul of America

01:10:42.631 --> 01:10:43.640
is at stake.

01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:44.674
- [Audience] That\'s right.

01:10:44.674 --> 01:10:46.840
- [Reverend Barber] And the question is,

01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:50.565
will insult and hate and meanness

01:10:51.816 --> 01:10:54.788
and division and intimidation overcome

01:10:55.755 --> 01:10:57.458
truth and--?

01:10:57.458 --> 01:11:00.591
- \"...justice and issues and integrity.\"

01:11:01.622 --> 01:11:04.895
The simple answer to that question may rest

01:11:04.895 --> 01:11:07.539
closer to home than we realize.

01:11:07.539 --> 01:11:09.372
It\'s in our own hands.

01:11:10.295 --> 01:11:12.712
[applauding]

01:11:16.802 --> 01:11:21.534
♪ This land is your land ♪

01:11:21.534 --> 01:11:26.534
♪ This land is my land ♪

01:11:27.176 --> 01:11:30.843
♪ From California ♪

01:11:30.843 --> 01:11:35.843
♪ Well to the New York Island ♪

01:11:36.131 --> 01:11:40.975
♪ From the Redwood Forest ♪

01:11:40.975 --> 01:11:45.975
♪ To the Gulf Stream waters ♪

01:11:46.169 --> 01:11:47.893
♪ I tell ya ♪

01:11:47.893 --> 01:11:52.893
♪ This land was made for you and me ♪

01:11:56.751 --> 01:12:00.765
♪ As I waent walking ♪

01:12:00.765 --> 01:12:05.765
♪ Down that ribbon of a highway ♪

01:12:06.298 --> 01:12:10.742
♪ I saw above me ♪

01:12:10.742 --> 01:12:15.694
♪ That endless skyway ♪

01:12:15.694 --> 01:12:20.566
♪ Now I saw below me ♪

01:12:20.566 --> 01:12:25.491
♪ That golden valley ♪

01:12:25.491 --> 01:12:26.986
♪ And I said ♪

01:12:26.986 --> 01:12:31.986
♪ This land was made for you and me ♪

01:12:35.868 --> 01:12:40.204
♪ As I was walking ♪

01:12:40.204 --> 01:12:45.149
♪ Now they tried to stop me ♪

01:12:45.149 --> 01:12:49.437
♪ They put up a sign that said ♪

01:12:49.437 --> 01:12:54.437
♪ Oh it said private property ♪

01:12:54.944 --> 01:12:59.209
♪ Well on the backside ♪

01:12:59.209 --> 01:13:04.209
♪ You know it said nothing ♪

01:13:04.673 --> 01:13:09.059
♪ So it must be that side ♪

01:13:09.059 --> 01:13:12.559
♪ Was made for you and me ♪

01:13:28.946 --> 01:13:33.726
♪ One bright sunny morning ♪

01:13:33.726 --> 01:13:38.580
♪ Well in the shadow of a steeple ♪

01:13:38.580 --> 01:13:43.393
♪ Down by the Welfare office ♪

01:13:43.393 --> 01:13:48.323
♪ I saw my people ♪

01:13:48.323 --> 01:13:53.124
♪ You know now they stood hungry ♪

01:13:53.124 --> 01:13:58.062
♪ I stood wondering ♪

01:13:58.062 --> 01:14:02.820
♪ I was wondering if this land ♪

01:14:02.820 --> 01:14:07.820
♪ Was made for you and me ♪

01:14:08.724 --> 01:14:13.724
♪ This land is your land ♪

01:14:13.933 --> 01:14:18.285
♪ This land is my land ♪

01:14:18.285 --> 01:14:22.444
♪ From Riverside, California ♪

01:14:22.444 --> 01:14:27.203
♪ Oh, to Staten Island ♪

01:14:27.203 --> 01:14:31.894
♪ Well, on down to Augusta, Georgia ♪

01:14:31.894 --> 01:14:36.025
♪ Oh, don\'t forget to say Philadelphia ♪

01:14:36.025 --> 01:14:40.354
♪ Oh, we movin\' on down to Mississippi ♪

01:14:40.354 --> 01:14:43.309
♪ Oh, Houston, Texas ♪

01:14:43.309 --> 01:14:44.807
♪ L.A. ♪

01:14:44.807 --> 01:14:49.807
♪ Yeah, you know this land is your land ♪

01:14:51.666 --> 01:14:56.666
♪ This land is my land ♪

01:14:56.739 --> 01:14:59.447
♪ This land is your land ♪

01:14:59.447 --> 01:15:03.947
♪ You\'ve got to believe this my land ♪

01:15:10.092 --> 01:15:14.664
♪ This land was made for you and me, yeah ♪

01:15:14.664 --> 01:15:19.465
♪ Oh, this land was made for you and me ♪

01:15:19.465 --> 01:15:24.143
♪ This land, this land is your land ♪

01:15:24.143 --> 01:15:28.310
♪ This land, this land is my land... ♪