host: john fortier?uest: i absolutely agree that the rhetoric about poll taxes and jim crow is very overblown. we have debates about integrity and access. democrats are not always happy with republican proposals for voter id or regulating who gets to handle absentee ballots. that is a very different thing than poll taxes and jim crow. broadly speaking, people are looking to pass laws with good intent. again, those who are much more in favor of access might believe they see some bad things in republican proposals but these are relatively around the margin regulation of certain areas, some democrats might think our hurdles to voting but they are certainly not animated to dramatically change the percentage of people who vote. the percentage is up. before this last one, and this last one was even higher. we can have a reasonable debate. you can argue about these restrictions. it is more about the management of elections than they are affecting the percentage of people who are going to vote. host: carol, tyle

john fortier is also a rent scholar ear at aei. he is the author he three books, two of which are on the elections. one entitled after the people vote a guide to the electoral college. the other is called absentee and early voting, trends, promises and perils. fourth we have justin brimmer a for fellow at the hoover institution. highs recent focus is on congress, elections, social media, and data science. he also recently published a report on the allegations of election fraud in 2020 and published peer review articles on the allegations of voter id policies. last, david johnson founder of voters network advancing structural change in u.s. election systems. kevin has spent even seas in overseas democracy promotion. a decade on the board of common cause in massachusetts and is on advisory bodies for american purpose, fair vote, issue one, rank the vote, and the carter center. let's move to our conversation with the panelists. i would like to pitch the first question to my colleague, daniel cox. what does polling tell us about the lo

john fortier is also a resident scholar here at aei. he is the author of three books. two of which are on elections. one is titled, after the people vote, a guide to the electoral college. the other is titled, absentee and early voting. justin grimmer is a professor at stanford university. and a senior fellow at the hoover institution. his research focuses on congress, elections, social media, and data science. he also recently published a report on the allegations of election fraud in 2020 and has published peer-reviewed articles on voter id policies. last but certainly not least is kevin johnson, founder of an executive director of election reformers network. kevin has spent seven years at overseas democracy promotion, a decade on the board of common cause in massachusetts, and is on advisory bodies. let's move to our conversation with the panelists. let me pitch the first question to my colleague daniel cox. what does polling tell us about the long term and short term trends in public trust of elections? daniel: thanks for the question, i appreciate the opportunity

john fortier is also a resident scholar here at aei. he is the author of three books. one is a guide to the electoral college. the other book is absentee and early voting. justin grimmer is a professor at stanford university. his research focuses on congress, elections, social media and data science. he recently published a report on the allegations of election fraud in 2020 and has published peer-reviewed articles on id policies. last is kevin johnson, found of an executive director of election reformers network. kevin has spent seven years at overseas democracy promotion, a decade on the board of common calls in massachusetts and is on advisory bodies. let me pitch the first question to my colleague daniel cox. what does this tell us about the long term and short term trends of an election? daniel: i appreciate the rotation to join this important discussion. it is helpful to restate the problem. we are experiencing the story close in confidence of government. pew and gallup have recorded this. we have seen a number of americans that believes government does what is r

host: john fortier, president scholar at the american enter because -- resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. guest: good morning. host: we spent our first hour talking about the vote coming up in the senate today, procedural on s1, the for the people act, the democrats voting reform bill. inec

coming up next in the next hour we will continue our conversation on voting reforms with john fortier an election integrity expert at the american enterprise institute. later former ambassador mark ginsburg president of the group coalition for a safer web will be joining us to talk about his group's role in tracking extremist activity online and the biden administration's plan to counter domestic terrorism. ♪♪ >> today on the c-span networks, a senate committee hears from washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser as it considers legislation that would make the district the 51st state. that's 10:00 a.m. on c-span. at noon the house returns for general speeches. at 2:00 p.m. they take up 18 bills including legislation aimed at protecting veterans from fraud and a consumer product safety commission study on covid-19-related deaths and injuries. on c-span 2 at 10:00 a.m. the senate returns to work on the nomination of christopher fonzone to be general counsel for the director of national for crack cocaine and at 2:00 p.m. jerome powell tefs over the crisis subpoena is committee on the federal

john fortier, based on what we have heard so far, it sounds like on the political right, there is a disconnection of sorts. distrust is high, but actual proven evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential contest is low. certainly evidence that there was widespread fraud that could tip the scales one way or another in the contest has not been proven. do you have insights on how can we understand and explain the divergence? john: thanks kevin, and thank you to dan and justin. i want to go back to something that dan brought up and maybe emphasize a little more than he did. look, i think there are all sorts of reasons we should be unhappy with the fact that election results are not being accepted, that people are doubting the legitimacy of people who are in office. but i do think there is a strong component of this, not under the lower measures of do you trust how your vote was counted by election officials, but also broadly about how the election went and if a person is legitimate, of the winners feeling good about the results and the losers feeling bad about the results. the simple point is those nu

dan cox, john fortier, david becker and david grimmer. and thank you to the audience out there. there are many of you. i apologize that i couldn't get to all of your questions. i will flag as many as them on the twitter and respond to them today. thank you for tuning in to this event. we look forward to seeing you at the next one. have a great day. >>> tonight on american history tv we will feature a first lady symposium co-hosted by the white house historical associates. that is at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv. >> janet yellen testified before the president's 2w50 budget request at a finance hearing. she also testified about tax trade, and cyber threats in the financial sector. >> last tuesday americans woke up to what is a largest -- as i said at the time, the committee takes the confidentiality of taxpayer data very seriously. and i expect that an appropriate investigation is under way. i want to thank treasury officials who held a briefing with the staff this week on the subject. the committee takes confidentiality seriously. i also take the issue of economic fai

host: john fortier, president scholar at the american enter because -- resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. guest: good morning. host: we spent our first hour talking about the vote coming up in the senate today, procedural on s1, the for the people act, the democrats voting reform bill. in a recent opinion piece you said "the reforms are too broad." why do you think that? guest: our country is different than many in the world. we have a decentralized system of elections. we allow states and localities different policies. we sometimes passed federal laws which supersede those. those of the smaller number of laws. it is usually with consensus. this bill goes back to democrats taking over the house in 2018 and they wanted their first bill out of the gate to show the american people what their priorities were on democracy reform. because of that, it is a large bill with lots of priorities, all of which would be controversial and hard to get through at a national level. some through more democratic states. this bill began broad, lots of things in it and now with the filibu