MSNBC panel discusses MAGA media overseas voting conspiracy theories
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Citation From the October 12, 2024, edition of MSNBC's The Weekend
ALICIA MENENDEZ (CO-HOST): I'm not sure if you saw this headline from Media Matters about a conspiracy theory about overseas voting spread from an election denial website to Trump and now to the MAGA media infrastructure. It's falling in with their many conspiracies and lies about how there is cheating that is on the brink of happening.
MICHAEL STEELE (CO-HOST): That's exactly right. And Susan, speak to us if you could real quickly about the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, which is now the center of Donald Trump and Republicans' attack against overseas voting. What is it, very quickly, and what is the impact of these attacks?
SUSAN DZIEDUSZYCKA-SUINAT (FOUNDER, OVERSEAS VOTE): It's important to remember that voting absentee within the military started way back in the Civil War. It was first codified around the time of the Second World War and then subsequent legislation followed in 1955, 1975, and then under the Reagan administration in 1986, the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act — UOCAVA, big vocabulary word for some — that came into being. And we still operate under it.