jenny flanagan. mrs. flanagan's director of voting and elections at common cause. prior to that time she worked with the new york state legislature. she received her law degree and master's in social work at university of denver. as with all witnesses, mrs. flanagan, your full statement will be made part of the record. please go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman, senator grassley, for the opportunity to testify here today about the deceptive practices and voter intimidation prevention act and how this bill provides proactive means to guard against this most heinous form of voter suppression we're talking about today. common cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering citizens, ordinary people, to make their voices heard in our political process. common cause along with its coalition partners including the election protection coalition have received numerous complaints over the years in our state offices around the country from colorado to wisconsin, from ohio to pennsylvania. we have been responding to the kinds of intimidation and mislea

and our next witness would be miss flanagan. mrs. flanagan is the director of voting and elections and part of that time she worked with the new york state legislature and has received her law degree. and as with all witnesses, your full statement will be made part of the record, please go ahead. >> thank you mr. chairman, senator for the opportunity to testify here today about the act. and how this bill provides a proactive means to guard against this most heinous form we are talking about today. to make their voices heard. the common cause has received numerous complaints over the years from colorado, to wisconsin, from ohio to pennsylvania. we have been responding to the kinds of intimidation and misleading acts that are being discussed here this morning. voter supression has become a household phrase in recent months. there is a gap between the rhetoric and the reality of voter fraud. what we are focused on today is a real threat. efforts to intimidate and deceive voters. the single right of all americans is to cast a ballot. it

flanagan has stated. we completely believe that this is not protected speech, that deceptive flyers and tactics cannot go unaccounted for and not addressed. we are targeting these vulnerable communities and so i don't know there's much else to say other than this has to be addressed. we are talking about protecting a fundamental right. if we simply state that we cannot provide for this protection of a fundamental right because we are worried that somewhere down the line there may be a possibility that the speech may be chilled is not acceptable because there are limitations on speech. this is false speech. this is false claims, misrepresentations, misinformation. therefore it's not protected. we do believe that the supreme court precedent to substantiate that and even with alvaf erez coming in the near future, that case does provide guidance as to what we're talking about within this bill. we indeed provide that there has to be an intent. the information has to be shown to be materially false. knowingly.

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our partners at raymore and flanagan. and the opportunities i see are, >> good morning, it is 855. area headlines. thousands of jobs could be created as local and moves ahead with plans to develop its former army base. calls for local residents to get at least half the jobs as well a bicyclist is in court today in connection, charged with vehicular manslaughter. a 71 year-old man died in april after a bike hit him at market and castro street. opening statements to begin today in the trial of a san francisco man accused of beating a priest who he says sexually abused him decades ago. he faces assault and elder abuse charges. if convicted he could face up to four years in jail. a little bit of summer today, the first day and the longest day of the year. >> it will be hot like it should be on the first day of summer. plenty of sunshine at mount diablo. right now we're keeping things up already in the '50s and upper 60s. it won't be long until we talk about maybe even nineties in the valleys. we will see low pressure drop in tomorrow. 93 degrees in livermore, and 90 in concord. cooler

our partners at raymore and flanagan. i see are limitless. >> t,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. it is now 8:55. let's check the weather with bernadette woods. >> heat advisory going into effect at noon today. that's going to continue straight through 8 p.m. tomorrow for two hot days moving our way. as far as temperatures go, 78 right now. we're going to keep on rising this afternoon to about 96 degrees. when you factor in the humidity, feeling hotter than that. the record today is 100. we will fall short of that but get close. same idea tomorrow, record is 100 but we're forecasting a high of 98. it will feel closer to 100 when you factor in the humidity. >> thank you. >>> this morning baltimore city police are searching for two men responsible for a robbery related to craigslist. mike schuh has the details. >> reporter: two crooks lured people here to buy a car. when the arrived the sellers pulled guns and robbed the couple of $4,000. one to have buyest pulled out -- buyers pulled out her handgun and started shooting. t