tonight barbara on wine and president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hilary shelton washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy at the end he and katherine. cullison gonzalez senior attorney and director of voter protection at the advancement project let's get back to it. to the three of you are attorneys and i'm i'm just curious the the constitution mentions the phrase right to vote several times and it's been amended with the phrase right to vote several times but it's always been in in very near. people should not be denied the right to vote based on race people should not be denied the vote right to vote based on gender it. is there in my misreading that is there no explicit federal right to vote does anybody or should there be katherine well there definitely should be there isn't an explicit right to vote in a numerated right to vote in our constitution and we're one of the few countries that doesn't have you know iran doesn't have. and we don't south africa has a numerated right to vote in so it's an explicit fundamental right and since bush v gore m

tonight barbara ehrenreich president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law hilary shelton washington bureau director and senior vice president for advocacy the and he and katherine culliton gonzalez senior attorney and director of voter protection the advancement project and thank you all for joining us tonight pritchett let's start off with the voter suppression from the columbus dispatch to really reported today that there is a data glitch in cuyahoga county democratic leaning county. and that it has to a data sharing this is just a coincidence that i'm not sure who to direct it if any of you know are familiar with this. by saying we don't know his acquaintance or not but it's a problem and very well we have to make sure this doesn't interfere with people's opportunity to participate in this electoral process would move towards tuesday. deployed monitors into cuyahoga county as well as the justice department we're very happy to announce as also deployed official federal monitors into coyote counted to look into this issue and the issues of that concern the bottom line here is that