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- After residents in Georgia saw long lines, a shortage of ballots, and not enough voting machines for their primary, Kentucky residents are concerned the same lies ahead for them. Officials are bracing for high voter turnout and are under scrutiny for making cuts to polling locations.» Subscribe to MSNBC: on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
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Kentucky Officials Criticized For Cuts To Primary Polling Locations | MSNBC
McConnell knows he's out so he's trying to stop voting.
With McConnell, the *fewer* people who vote, the *better* it will be for him!
EXACTLY
@Jeffrey Dahmer Meanwhile, in reality, Republicans continue to be unable to actually prove that sort of thing.
Many red states now say u can use a concealed gun license/ hunting license as alternate ID to vote. BUT, a State University ID, or STATE ISSUED Security guard ID is NO GOOD. Sounds like it benefits white men who statistically are more likely to have Concealed carry license or hunt, and hurts the poor, and college youth.
@@mr.painfultruth2771 Actually most liberal males are BISEXUAL and or HOMOSEXUAL.
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Looked at numbers from trumps rally last night..."Oops, we better do some voter suppression"...it's all so predictable.
Joe sold out Yankee Stadium...twice.
EXACTLY
Numbers are fake and it took them longer then expected because of all the medical screenings as well as regular security. This is also the first one in a while so things took longer. But when it came time for Trump (with a capital you always capitalize names) to actually speak there was much more people. Way more then Biden’s
@@Dan-or8ld I don't respect trump enough to capitalize his name, and please stop living a lie, no one showed up because he is over.
@@Dan-or8ld you speak like your president fake numbers fake news you just can't deal with the truth
Good old Mitch's home state. Show's he really cares for his people. Never prepared.
No. they were "prepared", they just decided to close down voting location because it's the only way Moscow Mitch has any chance of winning. Less votes, more chance of winning.
He is better then a Democratic option
Maybe third party?
@@Dan-or8ld How so? If a politician is serving themselves and not the American people then they need to go. No matter which party they belong to. And Moscow Mitch is serving himself and has been even more so since Trump go into the office!
So, NO, as of now, a Democratic option will be better if it means getting Moscow Mitch out of office!
And I would bet you don't even know why McConnell has this nickname by the media?!
@@Dan-or8ld I could agree to a point, many of the corporate democrats are really no better... But they are then the latter. I've said it before, term limits and we need new idea's instead of the old ones that do not work.
That doesn't surprise me with McConnell. But you all need to get out and vote. Take those republicans out.
Starting with Mr. Ego, Mr. Narcisst, Mr. Unintelligent TRUMPSKY!!!!!
No thanks I will try to remove Demokkkrats
Thomas Traveling I don’t live in Moscow and have no intentions of visiting or moving
We should be able to vote by mail. And they should step up and make sure there’s no cheating!
They ARE going to cheat, this is how they are starting.
Jeffrey Dahmer isn’t there a leg of man you need to go eat somewhere?
We vote by mail here in Colorado I don't see a problem with it. This should be in every state
Well that’s a better idea. I prefer the polls but would not have such a problem with it if there was not going to be cheating
#voteblue🌈🌊🦄🌺💙💐
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Living in Washington state I’ve voted by mail for the last several years. Takes about 15-30 minutes and I either drop it in the mail or drop it at my local polling place. It should be this easy for everyone.
Exactly ... same here, Oregon took 10minutes! Easy peasy
Mail spreads COVID maybe democrats should sit this one out. Just this one
It's not in Oklahoma. Notarization and two witnesses with their personal information and addresses. It's difficult for home bound people to vote. I told them that it makes no sense to have ballots for those who can't come in and vote require more effort than just going to the polling place. They said that that's how the Republican legislature designed it. Hmmm....
Vote BLUE in EVERY BOX!!!
No I don’t really feel like doing that. I will vote for who I like best and almost none are Democrats. It used to be easier to be Independent because you had good candidates on both sides and sometimes one was better then the other. But the Democrats have just moved so far to the left and the Democrats chest so bad people who have common sense are either suppressed, switch parties, or just get out of politics altogether
I'm Canadian and my husband is German, we both vote by mail because it just practical. Voting is our right and our civic duty, the government should not make it so hard for people to vote.
Right on Diane
You should always vote in person. Voting is a privilege. The idea your mind is made up is really bad, people should be making the decision on the day, to deliberate the facts on the future direction of the nation.
The U.S. is backwards.
@@MrWhitmen1981 I knew three years ago who I wouldn't be voting for.
@@MrWhitmen1981 We are all entitle to our opinions, I respect that you vote in person. So please respect other people's decisions to mail in their votes, especially when we don't know what everyone's situation is. I believe we "should" vote in person if the circumstances allow us to do so. I live and work in Germany, so as many of US citizens who live overseas, they are all entitle to their votes. In the middle of a pandemic, it is more sensible to keep everyone safe and have the votes mail in. If the government truly care for its citizens, they should make it easier for their voices to be heard. The US election has always been on a Tuesday, and many people who are on minimum wage or hourly wage, who cannot afford to lose a day of work for whatever reasons there may be, they should be able to vote without the fear of losing their job. My opinion anyway.
My kid: "Why do republicans hate voting so much?"
Me: "I don't know, dear, I don't know."
My kid: "They seem stupid."
Me: **sheds tear of joy** 🙂
I Love The Way You Allow Your Child To Observe, And Come Too Their Own Conclusion❤️👍🏾😢❗️❗️❗️ Where As, republicans MAKE their Children vote republican😡👎🏾❗️❗️❗️
@Jeffrey Dahmer
Another mindless troll. Have you taken your anti psychotic medication today? BTW check your spelling genius.
What's your husband think of it?
The GOP is afraid my college professor was right. He said, IF EVERY ELIGIBLE person who COULD vote, ACTUALLY VOTED...the GOP would go extinct overnight
@@mr.painfultruth2771 Democracts are Anti-American Pro-LGBTQ and everyone knows it.
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Mitch and Rand hard at work trying to steal their seats again.
this is the only way Moscow Mitch gets reelected
#voteblue🌈🌊🦄💙🌺💐💋
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Mitch is Not getting re-elected that's why he wants to stop the vote. Republicans testing the waters for November when Trump loses too.
@@lindaburnham570 Mitch is definitely getting re-elected... Democracts support LGBTQ.
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@@williamh5646 Go away, troll.
EXACTLY
Mitch trying to cheat.
Democracts are beyond pathetic and shameful.
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More like has been cheating, instead of trying to cheat.
@@williamh5646 Says the guy using a Jim Crow themed avatar.
@@williamh5646 Fear the future you're creating. Go silently😂😂😂😂
@@unbothered78 The Trump dynasty is our future praise be.
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I have a funny feeling that there will be a large number of power outages around certain polling sites on election day.
I would not be surprised if phone coverage gets knocked out too, so no one can even talk about the power outages.
Banana Republic. Nothing more to say...
You forgot to mention the majority of liberal males are BISEXUAL and or HOMOSEXUAL.
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I like bananas
And that’s why I did a mail in ballot.
I did seven of tham, all for Trump. 😂😂
@ Go away, ignorant troll.
Well congratulations on actually receiving yours
a) at all,
b ) in time, and
c) the correct ballot. 👍
Kentucky has democratic governor but he will needs funding, so put pressure on now
Good let’s get a Republican one
@@Dan-or8ld 🙄
Its WAY past time that we demanded open, fair and accountable voting everywhere, no more of this in the night taking away polling places and taking away 'votes' every
American has the right to ENOUGH CRIMINALITY , either win the right way or leave office and let someone else take care of precious votes and how they are tallied.
@Don Hardcastle FO donnie, thats not getting through me, try it on someone else , simpleton.
With a Democrat Governor, Andy Beshear, I'm a little surprised about the big drop in open Kentucky precincts to under 200.
Apparently the secretary of state is a Republican.
I still don't understand how these people keep voting for Republicans, McConnell! It's time for him to go!
3,500 fewer polling stations, that is drastic, hopefully they are fairly distributed where there is need.
Probably only in republican districts
Democracts are beyond shameful.
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Don`t count on it!
Anything to throw the election!
That’s the DNC for you
STILL TRYING TO CHEAT! THIS IS A PRACTICE RUN FOR 2020!
Even with everything else going on around the planet, this ongoing voter suppression should worry every American.
Where I live in Virginia they use local schools as polling sites why can't the rest of the country do the same?
It's a shame the way trump is trying to stay in office. EMBARRASSING
Ridiculous. KY seems to have a problem with helping the people. Unemployment lines with folks who haven't gotten checks in 3 months.
Why have so many polling locations been cut? What is going on, really?
Bring chairs. Hand out numbers. People can chill around and talk until their number is called.
The corruption is thru the atmosphere!
This injustice must not stand.
How is this even happening 💀
Can we please get it together so this doesn’t keep happening
*Everyone needs to sign "vote by mail" petitions.* Just do a quick Google search for "vote by mail petition" and several will come up. Please sign them.
NEED CONFIRMATION RETURNED TO MAILI-IN VOTERS
identifying if the vote was counted, or, if rejected, why, to please me.
#BIDEN
Vote-by-mail is so important in times of Covid-19 and physical distancing.
They’re using buses??? What are they thinking? That’s far more dangerous than having more polling stations. What on earth?
Who didn’t know that was coming?
How can local voters reverse the cuts to their number of polling place?
They think 50% is high turnout? lol.
Digital voting would be really convenient considering all our info is linked to our phones. So that would make census and voting too easy to not have set up
Lexington, Kentucky here...
So the place I've Voted at since 1988 will be changed to the University of Kentucky football stadium where everyone in Lexington will have to Vote at the same place...wtf?
Here in TX, GOP says, "get picture ID to vote". THEN, they CLOSE the Driver's license offices (2 closed in my area). They build NEW ones in areas with NO bus stops or bus routes even. Now MORE red tape needed to get a new ID, or to Renew Drivers license. Suspicious is it not ?
Is it a good to remove the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure ?
Shame on officials for limiting polling places. This is so counter to free and open voting. My ancestors in owsley county are rolling in their graves.
“Half Kentucky’s Black voters live in one county,” he wrote. “It will have one polling place... for 616,000 registered voters.”
Lawmakers and voting rights experts say Election Day this week will likely mirror what happening during Georgia's primaries
This is not directly relevant to the subject--but so good to see/hear Joshua Johnson again. Have missed him ever since he left "1a" on NPR for MSNBC.
I signed up to vote by mail. They received it but never issued it! You can check online for the status. I'm not getting mine! Yes I ordered it in time. I'm mad. I can stand in line for groceries without passing out. That's why I was going to do the mail in.
This was a total Blind Side, they told NO one they were cutting Polling Places...
Going to a stadium for anything is a pain!
Kentucky has 4.5 million residents. Half of them (2.250.000) won't vote. And it has less than 200 voting places.
According to math, that's 11.250 voters/voting station.
The voting stations are open from 6 AM to 6 PM, that's 12 hours, or 938 voters/hour.
That's 16 voters/minute. Could be doable, if there are at least 16 voting booths at every place.
But of course...that's only, if the voters would come in a constant stream starting at 6 AM, and if every voter had a voting place nearby. We all know, that'snot the case...so, it's not really feasible. Now, let's say 50% vote by mail (that's if they get their ballots in time!)...that final number goes down to 8 voters/minute. Again: should be doable...but only if the stream of voters starts at 6 AM and doesn't ebb during the 12 hour period.
And people see these types of things as progress??? Really?
We're talking about the land of Mitch. Case closed.
I’m in Louisville and they did move the voting to the fairgrounds Expo center. Not an issue for me. Now I don’t have to be crowded into a library.
CHECK YOUR BALLOT BEFORE TURNING IT IN, MAKE SURE YOUR VOTING MACHINE IS ACCURATE!
How does Kentucky live with this abuse?
We live so deep in the mountains that it is difficult to get to our voting poles
3700 to 200? Come on. Hope they do mail in voting. Those lines will be crazy. Please say the Post Office is ready and staffed. Good luck Kentucky.
Thank you for the rest of the story.
Sabotage for sure!
Voting should be the easiest thing to do in this country , not the hardest .
I'm shocked they would do such thing!
Any state should be prepared to handle 100% voter turn out. No exceptions. Stop suppressing the vote.
Vote by mail is the way to go we have dun in in Oregon for over 30 years and no problems you just need to remember to send in your ballet a few days before it ends to make sure it arrives on time.
How hard would it be to fully implement online voting ? We submit our taxes, conduct online banking, file for SS, etc etc...
How ca this be! I’m in for a complete remake of our politicians. This is absolutely feckless actions by politicians. Treason comes to mind. Yes, put most of them behind bars for life.
A word to the wise, make sure you are able to vote either by mail or by voting early, WAY ahead of time!
From >3700 to 175'000 people who would have to split themselves between those 875 people at every station (on average). Minus the ones voting by mail.
Bring snacks and water, you're going wait in a loooooooooong line.
REMOVE STATEHOOD FOR KENTUCKY OR ANY STATE THAT WILL NOT PROVIDE ENOUGH RESOURCES FOR MAIL IN VOTING. PUT IT BACK DOWN TO PUERTO RICO STATUS. KENTUCKY NATIONALS NOT CITZENS. NO VOTING RIGHTS.
Pay attention... this is the sleight of hand
I hope all states will be able to vote by mail. I also hope all states will have something in place to get people to the polls by bus if they don't have a way to get there!!
In the UK postal ballots are available to all. And every village has a polling station - towns have one for each area about a mile or two apart. The US looks like a developing country which I guess it is🙁
Even if they pushed communities to sign up for vote by mail, I don't think one mega polling place is a good idea right now. I'm glad I helped all my family members sign up for vote by mail during the last local election.
Kentucky, how can you let these politicians do this too your voting rights! Show them who they work for, vote their butts out!
People should rent a bus or something, and just drive people that can't get to the polls themselves
am i naive, how can this be legal? i care but i give up on understanding how the voting system works in the US, it is not right to me.
So are the US still claiming to be a democracy? This is a disgrace. I almost never had to wait to vote here Austria. Two, maybe three people at most in front of me in rare occasions , and that is with a 75 to 80% voter turnout.
It was announced 2 months ago.
Wisconsin, Georgia, Kentucky... probably a few others on June 23 such as Mississippi, too. More in July. It's starting to look pretty obvious what's going on; it's a practice run of the setting up to be deployed by Republicans in November.
Fifteen minutes or less if travel and fifteen to thirty minutes to vote. Anything more is ridiculous. I am curious to know how long it takes for a Republican to travel and vote in those areas.
I am not ok with most of this. But I will stand in line as long as I have to.
This is not a mistake.. Everytime primaries and election days come around we keep going down this same path. No change
We must do 100% mail in ballots
Did that reporter really just say they have EVEN made absentee ballots free?! Ffs, voting should be free. If my government required me to search for a stamp then I wouldn’t vote for them.
Why would they care about criticism? If there are no consequences, there are no rules. It's that simple. They'll do what they want till someone is able to stop them. But the system has no checks or balances, so that won't happen.
"Tolerance is encouragement".
I asked for mail in ballot, never did get it
Dam cheaters don't like to lose
There need to be Federal mandated standards for conducting elections, the numbers and frequency of voting booths would be a good start. Voting should be an easy thing to do, it's imperative if you want a democratically elected government.
How do people put up with this crap?
More like why!
VOTE BY MAIL........
Still haven't received my mail in ballot.
The one democracy on earth where government officials would rather you just didnt bother to vote. The more polling places you have the more voters you get, dam, it is just like testing for covid.
Perfect example of how important local news is and how manipulative national news is. The title of this clip was partisan click bate.
Did anyone actually watch the entire video? We have this taken care of just fine. I sent in my absentee ballot a week ago. Go Charles Booker!!
For the love of burnt toast America .... have an independent, national electoral commission that will maintain the electoral roll, determine the electoral boundaries, organise the polling stations, and co-ordinate the federal, state and municipal elections. Make your elections compulsory, have preferential voting system and use paper ballots so that electoral fraud is hard to manipulate. It aint that hard.
1:30 "Recontextualize"? Is that a new word?
3700 down to 200? ya thats not going to work too many people will have not mailed it in on time and will want to drop it off in person, ya know like a normal person who doesn't have an assistant or a chef or a nanny to make their days easy.
everyone start calling the sec of state and governors offices !!!! everyone !!!!
Rotten to the core.
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Shouldn't this be a scandal?
His "view from the ground" doesn't acknowledge how those who are disabled or the working poor can't do this. For instance, the working poor will have to vote on their lunches or after/before work. They can't just take off for an election even though this one affects them more than any others in the past.
The disabled won't be able to stand in lines or sit in a wheelchair It's impossible. Traveling a long distance to vote would be detrimental to their health.
Yes, there are mail in ballots, but I have those and it requires notarization with 2 witnesses who give their own private information and addresses. If a person lives alone and is sheltering because of COVID, that could become an impossible task.
This is voter suppression. I don't care what the local guy says. He's young and ignorant - obviously.