As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not.
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In this documentary with Columbia Journalism Investigations and USA Today, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots, and how the pandemic could impact turnout.
With director June Cross, the Fred W. Friendly Professor of Media and Society at Columbia, and producer Thomas Jennings, Cobb scrutinizes one of the first elections held during the pandemic — Wisconsin’s April 2020 primary, which saw long lines, claims of disenfranchisement, an unprecedented number of absentee ballots and dueling legal battles between Republicans and Democrats. The film places the election within the context of America’s history around voting rights and suppression, and discovers lessons for the country as a whole as the November presidential contest approaches.
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Pretty simple. The legal ones!
I would like to know who spread around that everyone hates everybody , such misinformation .
Somebody sent some weird images around to people . Hacker's ?
I means not a safe website i
Sure a mask
Isin't bloody sunday Irish ?
Someone did say Never watch the television .
Someone did say Never watch the television .
Using fear as a wepon , such lies , oh some of the images sent out to the american citizens .
Order out of chaos .
Odo Abo Cao
I did say throw your cellphone in an iorn box in 2015 .
Dude , come on already
Slang terminology .
Social media marketing platform
Social media marketing platform
What is latin x ?
H1N1 , H2N3 .
What I saw was other than a lock down . I did see fake home made face masks .
That caronavirus was an app .
Not worth it.
Wisconsin is farmland .
Zoom , and I didn't get sick . That's zoom
get ready ….. at every election. R*d Lining has already been mapped out. a few went through approved if not mistaken.
That’s why you Early Vote. I always vote 2 weeks early. That way, if I find out that my polling center has changed, then I have plenty of time to go to the correct location.
Solution? Eliminate electoral college. More than two parties.
OMG the whining about going to your local polling place to vote when they generally closer than most other places a person visits on a weekly basis. It is ridiculous. If you don't vote, it is because YOU failed to vote. Nothing is preventing it. Period, full stop.
I cannot believe that people of color continue to allow people to say that ID, and signature validation affects them more than other groups, as if they are incapable of, or too stupid, to get an ID card or sign a piece of paper. It is some of the most racist claims I have ever heard and they are generally being make by people of color which is astounding. I don't know a single person of color who does not have an ID. Not one. And I have asked them, since they are the authority, if others in their community struggle with this and they say no. Just stop it!
I generally like Frontline, but this report is incredibly slanted. You can do better!
Why have voter id? We want to vote as many times as we want under any registered name we want? Smfh.
What is wrong with people? diversity is one of the best qualities of the United States. Diversity only makes us stronger. All this controversy because one person has more melanin than another. PURE IGNORANCE!!!
Wiconsin if ,or anywhere isnt .even if after they stop counting ballots .shiuld be counting if the un ecepted ballots people will able to see if they was wich way it would have gone had they been counted ! They that says differnt results then there should be a revote ! Not an insurrection. Re register . Re mail re do the whole thing.
What about homeless people that has no address ? 😊
And now they gurry mander maps,put people in elcetion offices that wont certify results and problebbly have people implanted in the electorial collages
The election of Obama infuriated a whole society of racists. ID etc was not an issue in this before a 50 percent black man was elected president. The 50 % whiteness and upbringing totally ignored. He was not raised via black culture and via his matrenal white grandparents.
I.D. OR NO VOTE.!!
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17 minutes in. Im done. Just goes to show you that there really is an defective morbid system. Not being allowed to VOTE?? Absurb. Corruption at its best. I will never ever VOTE again! EVER!
That’s why Trump put in Louis Dejour for postmaster general and immediately started dismantling the machines. So many ways they try to stop the citizens vote because they knew they were going to lose.
Is it not common sense that if someone is to vote by absentee, he should identify himself. It's normal. Any other thing is a recipe for fraud. America should conduct election in a manner that is far more than what u see in third world countries
on Ben Ginsberg…
a person present during one of the most famous supreme court events to disenfranchise voters of Florida, should not be trusted about "an absence of voter fraud". Especially since the voter fraud is government and private entities selectively disenfranchising voters. An effort and event that include Amy Coney Barret and "i like beer" Brett Kav., (as lawers) to advocate in supreme court hearings not counting all Florida voters because it would "take too much time". Only then to become justices for they grade A work destroying the 2000 election to elect war criminal Bush to further soak the nation in blood and oil for the next decade….
Yeah dont trust anybody who participated in that scheme, when they say "no evidence for conspiracy to commit voter fraud exists"….
They've created a high number of issues indeed. From actual voter fraude (some people getting multiple ballots, others getting no ballots, ballots getting lost…) to people not being physically able to deliver their vote to people not trusting and accepting the changes in the voting system and refraining from voting for that reason. With that last group of people I can easily imagine that many republicans who are conservative in nature indeed refrained from voting and I can understand the reasoning of republican leaders there. There is just too much wrong with this and it's crazy this was allowed.
This white man really just told Jelani that African Americans want voter ID laws!? Are you for real? Clearly has no sense of shame or irony 🤦ðŸ½â€â™€ï¸
Those southern states are too backwards to simply just do mail in voting, like the West Coast, ballots mailed to you if you register.
Great video. ty. The inequality isnt directly the result of skin color but rather govt using skin color to embed hatred and discontent in all our skin. No matter who you are, if you push a narrative that you are nothing to others based on your skin, then you have two choices, prove the system wrong or fight the system that keeps force feeding you that people hate you for your skin. That in turn creates that image when you rebel and let others see that image govt places in ALL our heads. Doesnt matter whites break open windows and store doors, media shows the blacks doing all the looting, tied into fires and more. The fact is, people are going to hate. Everyone hates something or someone. Our system just keeps pointing the finger at who to hate and they keep building reasons to so we never stop.
Why don't the coloureds just live in nicer neighborhoods? Seems lazy to not just use obvious solutions.
Republicans lie; it's that simple. Republicans lie straight to America's face.
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