BHN Election Live: The BHN news team discusses the impact of the 2022 midterm election and the Black vote (11-8-22)

BHN's Carol Angela Davis and Julia Dudley Najieb report on the live election results and speak with Black News Link featured guests about the Iowa, Texas, Illinois and Georgia races. In this Black Headline News Live Election Special with news anchors Julia Dudley Najieb and Carol Angela Davis, the first hour is composed of election 101 specifics and vocab, helping the audience understand the significance of the 2022 midterm elections. While Dudley Najieb reviews the status of states with open U.S. House of Representative seats and the 35 U.S. Senate seats open, Davis reviews the federal laws which regulate voter intimidation or attempts of fraud at the polls while voting. Thereafter the show hosts talk with Danielle Sanders, managing editor of Chicago News Weekly, about the status of races in Illinois followed by Dana James, publisher of Black Iowa News, who reviews the unfortunate innuendos of racism of the incumbent and gubernatorial candidate Kim Reynolds. During the second hour, show hosts, Dudley Najieb and Davis have a lengthy discussion with Cheryl Smith about the depths, misuse, and taken-for-granted Black vote---she feels people need to come together as a collective to change the history of broken promises from elected officials who do not follow through on such promises. Dudley Najieb saves the last 45 minutes of the BHN election live show to talk about the ballot process to all who voted, citing the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law's Derek Tisler, who spoke during an Ethnic Media Services news briefing last week. Tisler reviews the federal laws that protect voters as well as the ballot certification process each state must abide.