when you talk about going to businesses and different tactics do you mean uh in order to then have different entities pressure uh senator cinema and senator mentioned or just other ways to protect the vote that that's certainly one option uh but i think an additional option is you know we we could even get to the point where there are some people that we have to think about boycotting uh that is certainly not something that anyone wants to do but i think it needs to be factored into the discussion and the equation uh because business if if businesses are not inclined on their own to you know take strong positions to help influence uh these senators that you know don't that seem to be uh unwilling uh to take a posture for what i again we characterize it as saving democracy of all the republican efforts to make voting harder or take over the administration of elections which are which are the greatest threats to democracy in your mind that you've you've seen proposed or passed over the last year well so the first and foremost i think just making it harder to vote period is is egregious in my own state of georgia there are NUMBER_TOKEN counties if the republican legislature majority republican legislature in georgia does not like the outcome of the election they can change the nonpartisan election commission to put people in place who are going to be favorable to what they want to achieve that means they can invalidate the votes of people who have voted for one candidate or another uh that i mean to me that's that's just draconian uh yeah they've been of course ballot box closures they've been voting suppression of voting by saying okay instead of let's say you had NUMBER_TOKEN days to vote now you have NUMBER_TOKEN. so these are things that are making it you know harder and then of course the fact that if someone or anyone could change an election um that is that's almost dictatorial control that is not democracy democracy allows the voters to be heard and whatever wherever things lay or where the ships fall is where they fall not someone manipulating moving vote votes off the rolls uh you know in the older days there were jim crow provisions in the law and what i mean by that is when african americans came to register they would ask questions like how high is up or how many bubbles are in a bar a bar of soap i mean all kinds of questions that no one could ask or can you tell me a specific area of the constitution recite that and if you recited that they would go to another area so all these techniques were used to suppress the vote and what we're saying is these new techniques although not the same which basically kept people from being able to register they will make it harder for people to vote they're not just downright you know putting provisions in place where you can't answer questions they're doing things like limiting drop boxes they're doing things like curtailing hours that you can vote so all of these things it seems to me when everything we do today by automation or technology we we handle our business affairs our banking online why could we not even vote i mean we have the system to be able to develop where it's fair for everyone who is the citizen voting should be as simple as can be not complex as people are trying to make it you attended uh president biden's speech in atlanta last week uh he's obviously tried privately
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