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Sep 8, 2026
Greg PalastGUEST
But one of the reasons is so he can throw them out or not give them to you.
Greg PalastGUEST
According to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, about one in seven ballots that is mailed in are never counted.
Greg PalastGUEST
They're disqualified.
Greg PalastGUEST
You put the wrong use.
Greg PalastGUEST
And it's not small.
Greg PalastGUEST
We lose about 2 million mail-in ballots are simply disqualified often for middle initial.
Greg PalastGUEST
When you ask about black and white, according to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, when they analyze vote in Florida, for example, the chance that your ballot will be disqualified is 900 higher if you're black than if you're white let me explain that again you mail in your ballot someone's looking at decided whether it should be determined this is not a tenth of the vote in florida it was one in seven ballots cast by black people were simply disqualified on technical grounds uh and that's why by the way again i'm not all that crazy about it you know, people worry about that we need paper ballots.
Greg PalastGUEST
Well, guess what? 49 states have paper ballots.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
New heading, hate groups in America.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In 1980, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights contracted with the Anti-Defamation League to produce a report on extreme right hate groups for a $20,000 fee.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The ADL hardly needed the fee, but was thrilled at having the implied endorsement of a government agency for one of its reports.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
This did not work out so well, however.
Thom HartmannHOST
When it opened at 6 a.m., approximately 600 people, virtually all black, were already standing in line.
Thom HartmannHOST
The newly created U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded, as black aldermanic candidate Zelma Wacht said, quote, Because of the long wait, many Negro voters, tired of waiting, went home without casting ballots.
Thom HartmannHOST
When reporter and former statistics professor Greg Palast went through official government numbers from the 2024 election, he found that Republican voter suppression won the day for Trump and the GOP, just as it had for George W. Bush in Florida in 2000. quote, Trump lost.
Thom HartmannHOST
That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.
Eddie GlaudeHOST
We don't have the typical tools available to address attempts to disenfranchise communities and the like.
Eddie GlaudeHOST
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights? Gut it.
Eddie GlaudeHOST
Remember? Trying to undermine its authority.
Eddie GlaudeHOST
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ? Gut it.
Eddie GlaudeGUEST
And then we have to be mindful, Chris, of what they've done already.
Eddie GlaudeGUEST
Think, what's, where's the US Commission on Civil Rights? Civil rights j- you know, the Civil Rights Commission and DOJ Um, election e- election assistance commission.
Eddie GlaudeGUEST
All of that's been gutted, and on, on top of the Voting Rights Act.
Eddie GlaudeGUEST
So, so I think if we're not clear about what they've done, then we won't be clear about what's in front of us it seems to me.
Elizabeth SlatteryHOST
Moderating today's discussion is the Honorable Kenneth Marcus, founder, chairman, and CEO of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
Elizabeth SlatteryHOST
Ken previously served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education and as Staff Director at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in addition to other distinguished posts in government.
Elizabeth SlatteryHOST
You can read Ken's full bio, as well as the bios of our speakers, on our website.
Elizabeth SlatteryHOST
One last note from me.
Kent MockHOST
Bagby was an assistant city attorney for Davenport from October 2017 until July of 2024.
Kent MockHOST
Bagby filed a complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission in November of 2024.
Kent MockHOST
The commission issued a right to sue letter January 21st, 2025. bagby described in her petition years of civil rights employees posting accusations on facebook she alleged they made false or spurious complaints about her to human resources which culminated in bagby's forced resignation on july fifteenth of twenty twenty four her petition states Bagby described several incidents in her 50-plus page suit, including of dueling records requests between the Civil Rights Commission and the legal department, competing complaints of harassment, disputes in cases leading to HR complaints, and a council member calling her girl after Bagby addressed what she viewed as an inappropriate comment in a public hallway outside of the council chambers.
Kent MockHOST
Bagby named the city of Davenport, the Davenport Civil Rights Commission, Civil Rights Director Latrice Lacey, then Davenport Alderman Tim Kelly, former Civil Rights employee Cody Eliff, former Mayor Mike Mattson, Commission Member Michael Guster, former Interim City Administrator Mallory Merritt, and Human Resources Director Allison Fleming in her petition.
April RyanHOST
King talked about that bounce check.
April RyanHOST
And in 2026, as Mary Francis Berry says, the former head of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, she says we are worse now than we were back then because we had rights.
April RyanHOST
They pulled them back.
April RyanHOST
We had people in place.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
And rather than condemning this violence, she talks about what does the Negro want? Government leadership in favorable public opinion, democracy in the armed forces, protection of his civil rights, elimination of racial barriers in labor unions.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
You talk about Truman's, uh, Civil Rights Commission report in '47, which invokes the declaration on behalf of equal opportunity and, uh, the right of citizenship, uh, including the right to vote for African Americans.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
And then, you know- There's an unfamiliar speech that I hadn't seen right before Brown v.
Jeffrey RosenHOST
Board of Education.
Allan LichtmanHOST
But under the law of Florida at that time, which no longer prevails, All of those votes were invalidated, even though it was crystal clear the intent of the voter.
Allan LichtmanHOST
I proved this in my report to the prestigious United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Allan LichtmanHOST
It's still up on their website.
Allan LichtmanHOST
And then it was validated independently.