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Hey! Hey, everybody! Boom!
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Welcome to show--
-Yeah.
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...four, five of seasons. I don't know.
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I'm not keeping track.
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My name is Jon Stewart
and I'm excited to announce
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that the 2022 midterm election
is finally upon us.
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Which means the 2024 election
is now officially underway.
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I wonder what that will mean
for the 2026 midterms.
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They're engineering viruses to make them
more deadly and more virulent.
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No, no, no.
I promised I wouldn't talk about that.
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They're going to fucking kill us all.
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Not important.
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My main point is this:
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Midterms, it's not just a referendum
on crime and abortion,
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but on something even more central.
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The most important midterm election
in American history.
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It's not hyperbole to suggest right now,
democracy itself on the ballot as well.
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Joe Biden is right.
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Democracy is on the ballot in November.
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Democracy itself is on the ballot.
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You may be confused because you thought
that like Joy Behar on The View,
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democracy has a lifetime appointment
in this country.
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Turns out, not so much.
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Apparently, democracy is running again
for its second 246-year term.
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By the way, I think in its first year
it defeated Chuck Grassley.
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True story.
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And our two current presidents agree.
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Just checking.
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Insuring that our last election ever
will be free and fair,
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is our highest priority.
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At all costs, we must defend
the sacred integrity of our elections.
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We have to protect
that sacred right to vote, for God's sake.
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Yea, it is written
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that on the first Tuesday
of the eleventh month
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in even years of our Lord,
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the faithful
shall head to a little school gym...
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whereby battling the mildewy aroma
of puberty sweat,
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they shall enter the cloister booth
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and thou shall receive a sticker!
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He bears the mark!
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The mark of the damned!
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Yes, we must protect our sacred democracy.
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Of course, each party has different ideas
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about the best way
to protect the franchise.
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For instance, the Democrats.
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Here in Virginia,
we've expanded early votes 45 days.
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Register online and on election day.
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Automatic voter registration.
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We expanded vote
by mail drop-box locations.
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No excuse absentee ballots.
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Make Election Day a holiday.
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Let people vote
just by thinking about a candidate.
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Never end the voting.
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Bisexuals get two votes.
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Of course, Republicans have
a different approach known as, "Prove it."
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We need signature verification.
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Require voter ID for absentee ballots.
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We need to have
photo identification of voters.
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Registration. You have to re-register.
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You have to prove you're a citizen.
-You need to show your social security.
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All same day registrants and urban voters
must jerk off in a cup.
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Put it on the sink
and fill it to the line.
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If you don't fill it to the line,
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that's a felony.
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Democrats expand.
Republicans verify to contract.
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Both parties gerrymander.
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It's two distinct approaches
to American democracy.
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And despite the partisan jockeying,
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it's been remarkably
durable and resilient.
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But even the best systems
are not foolproof.
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Governor Bush's official lead
in Florida is 537 votes
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out of nearly six million cast.
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A margin of 0.009%.
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In 2000, the presidential election
came down to just 537 votes
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out of the six million in Florida
and over 100 million nationwide.
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I don't care how meticulous
a system you build,
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with margins that thin,
it will not be accurate enough
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to truly trust who won.
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And chaos ensued.
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There were armies of bug-eyed gentlemen
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deployed to best decipher
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the intentions of elderly Jews'
butterfly ballots.
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"I thought I voted for pastrami."
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"Is this not a menu?"
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Ultimately, the Supreme Court stepped in
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and George W. Bush
was declared the winner.
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And of course we all know
he went on to do a really great job.
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I don't remember.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Oscar-winner Al Gore.
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While I strongly disagree
with the court's decision,
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I accept it. It's time for me to go.
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A graceful exit in an election
decided by one state
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with a margin of 0.009%
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for an electoral college count
of 271 to 266.
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Razor thin.
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So flash forward with me if you will.
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The year is 2020.
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Donald J. Trump has lost by seven million
in the popular vote,
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232 to 306 in the electoral vote,
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and a combined almost 300,000 votes
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in the five most contested swing states.
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Ass me kicking, his response.
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And thus, the problem with elections.
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Yes, it turns out the ultimate test
of a democracy is not the vote,
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but the acceptance of said vote.
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In 2000, our sacred democracy
withstood a contested margin of error
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so small that we may never actually know
who won the election.
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In 2020, our democracy
remains on life support
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after a run-of-the-mill electoral
and popular vote beatdown.
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And 70% of Republicans
still insist Donald Trump won.
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So we've now moved from
"Every vote is sacred"
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to "Democracy is in the eye
of the beholder."
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Trump got dumped,
so why does he think he won?
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Let's check Arizona.
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Maricopa County,
it appears that 143,000 illegal votes
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were actually injected
into the ballot system. Think of that.
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The communists have a baster
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and have artificially
inseminated the vote.
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In Maricopa County. Injecting it.
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And reality says...
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The audit confirms that Joe Biden
did win in Maricopa County.
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In fact, the auditors did their hand count
giving Biden, ultimately,
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an even larger margin of victory.
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What say you, Michigan?
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In one Michigan county, as an example,
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that used Dominion Systems,
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they found that nearly 6,000 votes
had been wrongly switched...
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from Trump to Biden.
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Oh, my God. That's terrible.
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Reality, what say you?
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A hand count of every ballot cast
for president in Antrim County,
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found that the Dominion machines
used there were extremely accurate.
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By the way, the ASL interpreter
was telling Donald Trump to fuck off.
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Georgia. Now this-- Fucking--
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This is Donald Trump.
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Two months after he lost the election,
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still technically president
of the United States,
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on the phone with the Republican
Secretary of State in Georgia,
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reading aloud an email someone's
QAnon grandmother sent him.
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So, dead people voted.
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And I think the number is in-- approx--
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close to 5,000 people.
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Holy shit! 5,000 dead people voted.
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How do you gently explain
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to the still-sitting president
of the United States
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how fucked up that idea is?
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Well, Mr. President,
the challenge that you have
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is the data you have is wrong.
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The actual number were two. Two.
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Two people that were dead that voted.
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And so, that's wrong. That was two.
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And both of those votes
were just write-ins for brains.
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I so admire the Secretary of the State
of Georgia
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for not ending that conversation
with, "You dumb motherfucker."
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All right. So none of the accusations
of fraud turned out to be accurate.
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Anything else you'd like to mention
to the Republican Secretary of State
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in Georgia who actually voted for you?
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So, look, all I wanna do is this.
I just wanna find
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11,780 votes,
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which is one more than we have.
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Listen, teach,
all I'm saying is if you take the F
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and you just put a line on the side of it,
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it's an A.
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And then if you put a plus right there,
then--
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I'm the valedictorian is what I'm saying.
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Ultimately, Trump's electoral challenges,
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whether in the courts or through audits,
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have shown this past presidential election
to be well-run and accurate.
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And his own Department
of Homeland Security said as much.
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But rather than be humbled
on the sacred altar of democracy,
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Trump and his team
were emboldened to figure out a way
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around the one thing
that got in their way.
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Voters.
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We're going to take over
the election apparatus,
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volunteer to become an election official,
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run for county clerk
and overthrow these county clerks,
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take over the secretaries of state.
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I can't stress enough
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how important
the secretary of state offices are.
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We control the election system.
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What could possibly go wrong
with a vote counter
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who's dressed as a magician?
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What's that you need?
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Ba-ba-ba-ba-bum.
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11,780 votes!
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Abracadabra!
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But wait, elections are generally
run by administrators.
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They're partisans,
but they're not ideologues
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or zealots or crazy people.
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And they generally do a thorough
and credible and competent job.
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And they're in those positions
for a long time.
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So how you gonna get rid of them?
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Threats and stalking prompt a mass exodus
of an entire elections office
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in the Texas hill country.
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People who are telling you
they're repeatedly gonna come hang you.
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They'd have a picture of my house
and my address.
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It says, "Sleep with one eye open."
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One in six elections workers report
being threatened or harassed.
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One in three have left their posts
because of safety concerns.
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And maybe the most incredible part
of what is more than likely
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an existential threat
to what's been built in this country
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over the past couple of hundred years
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is how not secret the plan is.
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If you look at
the way they counted the ballots,
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remember, the ballot counter
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is far more important,
sadly in our country,
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than the candidate.
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"The candidate."
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"It's more important than the candida--"
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What a playful read on a quote
often attributed to Stalin.
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"One death is a tragedy,
but a million's a statistic."
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"With the flavin'."
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Take a look at this.
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You know we love elections here.
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Obsessed with elections.
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But the truth is...
-...we're not that interested in...
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...how our government works...
-...because...
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...reporting on...
-...governance...
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...is boring.
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We're more interested in...
-...horse races...
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...and gossip.
-Oh, yes.
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So we speculate.
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Always asking...
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...how does everything...
-...affect...
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...the midterm elections?
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How might the end of Roe v. Wade
impact the midterms?
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Will the economy impact the midterms?
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What about gas prices?
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What about immigration?
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Manafort, Michael Cohen...
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Well, you know--
-...the Mullin investigation.
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Could it impact the midterms?
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What will voters think
of Senator Marco Rubio
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hitting a kid in the face with a football?
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What do the polls tell us?
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Because, of course...
-...we don't know.
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We just, sort off...
-...jerk off.
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So, to recap...
-Governance...
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We don't care.
-Midterm elections?
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I get all civically tingly.
-Oh, yeah.
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The stakes are rising.
-Oh, my God.
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We're building to these big moments.
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Oh, my God!
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Excuse me. I gotta get a tissue.
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That's why people--
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That's why people keep tissues
by their desk.
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So who are the people on the front lines
of ensuring our election integrity?
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Being the guardrail
of not just voter fraud,
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but administrative shenanigans?
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Joining us today, we have Teresa De Graaf,
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a Republican clerk
for Port Sheldon Township, Michigan.
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Virginia Chau, an independent
and part-time poll supervisor
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and trainer in Denver, Colorado.
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And Adrian Fontes, former county recorder
for Maricopa County, Arizona,
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who is now the democratic nominee
for Arizona's secretary of state.
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Welcome, everyone.
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Delighted you could join us.
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Adrian...
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I wanna start with you.
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Maricopa County is the center of this,
at least publicly,
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because of how demonstrative
the Arizonans were
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outside of the place
where they were counting votes.
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And by "demonstrative," I mean "armed."
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Well, not just armed,
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but we had a moment where Alex Jones
and the Q Shaman themselves
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were literally linked arm-in-arm,
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yelling my name,
telling me to count all the votes.
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And I wish they had been a little quieter,
'cause that's actually what we were doing.
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So it was really,
really an incredible sight out there.
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We had to put a big perimeter fence
and depend greatly on security.
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We had to have folks escorting
the workers in the warehouse
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back and forth to their vehicles
with rifles.
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Because they were armed.
-Because they were afraid...
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Well, you--
-...of their lives, going to their cars
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after sitting and counting the ballots
in Maricopa County by hand.
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Doing a lot of the adjudication
and the other stuff that happens there.
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Yeah. Yeah.
-Right.
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Now, Teresa, you do this
in a very different environment.
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You are an election administrator in--
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How big is the area
that you administrate?
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We're typically 6,000 people,
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and we have about 4,600 voters.
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So you have 4,600 voters,
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and I would imagine
they all know each other to some extent.
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This is a small town.
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It is a small town.
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So what has it been like for you?
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I don't imagine there's the Q Shaman
and Alex Jones showing up,
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but are you feeling the pressure
of this kind of accusation?
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Absolutely,
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because what happens is, people come in
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and they challenge everything that we do.
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They're challenging every process.
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They don't believe that we're doing the--
following the law.
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And so they're challenging
everything we do.
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Every procedure.
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But you're clearly a devious person
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doing this for financial gain.
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Absolutely.
-I mean--
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I think I speak for the audience
when I say,
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"We just sniffed this one out."
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But, Teresa, these are your neighbors.
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Is it 2020 that just changed everything?
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It is. It is. 2020 changed it.
And as people come in--
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Since 2020, I feel like
I could talk people off the cliff.
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And when they came in,
I could talk sense into them.
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But as time has gone on,
they keep believing the lie.
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And they keep believing
that what I'm doing is not accurate.
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What I'm doing,
I'm not following the law somehow.
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Do they believe you're in on it?
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I don't know that they believe
I'm in on it,
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but they definitely don't trust me,
I don't think, anymore.
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Right.
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Virginia, you're actually--
So you're in Denver.
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You're an independent.
And you train poll workers.
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Yes, I supervise them at the site,
and I train them.
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Have you seen a change since 2020
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and is this anything
that anybody has faced previously?
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Absolutely.
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First and foremost, like,
I'm, like, a normal person.
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I don't do this as a full-time thing.
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This is for two weeks, you know,
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out of the year.
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And I did it
because it's the American thing to do.
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And now--
-You can say community service
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to get out of going to jail. It's fine.
-Okay.
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But it-- I mean, it's hard getting people
to want to even participate now,
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'cause we don't have protections
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for poll workers or for elected officials,
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like yourself here.
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The normal thing would be,
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we train you to get the signature,
check it, give them the thing.
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And now-- Do you have to train them,
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"Here's what you do if someone
tries to unplug a voting machine"?
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"Here's what you do
if they show up armed"?
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Is that what we've come to?
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The truth is, there's no structure.
There's no training for that.
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You don't know what to do
until things happen.
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And there's no laws in place
if, like, someone calls your name.
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You know,
someone talks about voting fraud.
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That's only when we can call someone,
if we have the financial resources,
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to get someone down there to be like,
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"Okay, let's monitor. Let's have
some police there, or someplace better."
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One of the interesting shifts here
is an incident we had
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during the general election in 2018.
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It was one of our biggest
security incidences that we had.
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This is in Maricopa County?
-This is in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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General election 2018.
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We had a rattlesnake in the parking lot
at Pinnacle Peak precinct.
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Sure, I'm from Jersey. I get that.
-That was it.
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But the fact
that you're asking a question about,
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"Do you have training about what happens
if somebody armed shows up?"
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If somebody's making
actual physical threats.
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That's how far we've come
in this very, very short period of time.
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And that's why when we say
what's happening is dangerous
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for our democracy
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and literally the survival
of this republic, that's what we mean.
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Are people fleeing
those administrative positions?
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They aren't necessarily,
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but you should see their eyes
when we train them and we say,
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"This is what you need to do
in case there's an active shooter."
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"This is what you need to do..."
-Oh, my God.
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"...if someone comes in with--
They're actively--"
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We have open carry in our state,
in Michigan.
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So if someone comes in--
-You talking booze or guns?
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I'm talking guns.
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But not booze.
-Not booze.
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But...
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"Hey, man. Can I bring my AR in here?"
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"Sure."
-"And my Budweiser?"
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"Tut, tut, tut!"
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"We have rules!"
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But, Jon, I literally had a voter that
came in and got an absent voter ballot,
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within the last two weeks, that said,
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"We haven't voted absent voter before,
but I'm not gonna come to the polls,
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because I don't wanna encounter
someone with an AR on their back."
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Oh, dear God.
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And--
-And do they believe--
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I'm so curious. Is it that those
that believe the election is fraudulent,
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do they not understand
that there are checks and balances
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within these local systems,
these county systems,
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these city systems,
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that adjudicate
the dead people and the signatures?
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That's part of this, is it not?
-Well, it is part of it.
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Elections are the golden thread that run
through the whole fabric of our society.
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You pull that thread out,
the entire thing disintegrates.
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And we are on the cusp of that right now.
That's what's scary.
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And that's what folks like us
and so many tens of thousands
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across the country are fighting against.
-Right.
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What's so interesting to me is,
Teresa and Virginia,
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I feel like, you know,
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we've out put upon you this idea
that you are now the last guardrail.
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You are the bulwark
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that's going to keep that fabric
from unraveling.
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And I guess my question is,
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are you getting the support that you need
to be on that wall?
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We need you on that wall,
and what kind of support are you getting
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or do you feel abandoned in any way?
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00:21:45,097 --> 00:21:48,851
Well, I feel like we're getting a lot
of support with the security part of it.
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We've had training
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probably multiple times a week
in the last few weeks on security.
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00:21:55,315 --> 00:22:00,028
But our legislature in Michigan
just passed some drop box laws.
403
00:22:00,112 --> 00:22:01,321
They enacted the law--
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A change in the election law.
405
00:22:03,282 --> 00:22:06,451
Right. And we had literally
two-and-a-half weeks
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to comply with some of the drop box law
that they made.
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00:22:10,539 --> 00:22:13,834
And we have to get things certified
and we can't even do it.
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00:22:13,834 --> 00:22:16,044
So--
-And all based on a suspicion
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that in no way has any evidence behind it.
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Right.
-Virginia,
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are they doing the same thing in Denver?
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I mean, in Colorado,
I know at the Denver polling places,
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people come in 'cause they feel like
they have to check in on you.
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And there's no really rules in place
that you can't come in and, like, watch.
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00:22:31,977 --> 00:22:35,856
And for us, right, it's really hard,
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especially if you're a minority.
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'Cause people are targeting you, you know,
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as someone that's clearly not white.
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You know, people come in and it's like,
"Why are you the supervisor?"
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You know, "Are you a citizen?"
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But, Adrian, isn't that what's really
undermining the credibility here?
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Is by allowing these falsehoods
to metastasize,
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that's what's really undercutting
election integrity.
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And you're in a state where, you know,
425
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the attorney general of Arizona
is continuing these weird investigations.
426
00:23:06,929 --> 00:23:10,182
The legislature wants total control
over the electoral process.
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They're bringing it to the Supreme Court
428
00:23:12,476 --> 00:23:15,854
and basically saying
if the Supreme Court okays it,
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will of the voters be damned,
430
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they can just
send a different set of electors.
431
00:23:19,733 --> 00:23:23,195
Well, I mean, they forget
that the stool needs three legs.
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There's three branches of government
for a reason. And what they're saying is,
433
00:23:26,073 --> 00:23:29,159
"No, just the legislature's
the only stool that we can stand on."
434
00:23:29,243 --> 00:23:31,078
And we all know how that's gonna end.
435
00:23:31,078 --> 00:23:34,706
But as far as the--
You know, this is just real.
436
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And I think one of the things that
you talk about, this thing metastasizing--
437
00:23:38,794 --> 00:23:43,257
We're spending so much time
on the "whatabouterism," right?
438
00:23:43,257 --> 00:23:44,716
Well, this side and that side.
439
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,052
There are no two sides to the truth.
440
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Right.
-But at the end of the day,
441
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we're talking about the survival
of the republic.
442
00:23:51,348 --> 00:23:53,517
That's not a joke.
443
00:23:53,517 --> 00:23:54,852
That's not unreal.
444
00:23:54,852 --> 00:23:59,481
It is a heavy, heavy burden that folks
who are on the ground are carrying.
445
00:23:59,565 --> 00:24:01,483
That's why we've been calling
for stricter laws
446
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against folks who will threaten
or harass election administrators
447
00:24:05,988 --> 00:24:07,823
at a local level.
-You need law enforcement in that.
448
00:24:07,823 --> 00:24:11,118
You need the AGs to stand up
and not give credence to these things.
449
00:24:11,118 --> 00:24:12,160
Now we do.
-Right.
450
00:24:12,744 --> 00:24:14,997
Well, thank you guys so much
for being with us
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and having the discussion.
452
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And I can't tell you
how much I admire the fact
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that you guys are out there
doing the real work
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00:24:21,170 --> 00:24:23,755
to keep this thing humming along.
455
00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:25,716
So, Teresa, Virginia and Adrian,
456
00:24:25,716 --> 00:24:28,802
no one should have to go through
the threats and harassments
457
00:24:28,886 --> 00:24:31,805
that these three have,
but we appreciate you being here today.
458
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Take a quick look at this.
459
00:24:34,516 --> 00:24:35,350
And now,
460
00:24:35,434 --> 00:24:38,145
a word from the most influential
person in the history of America.
461
00:24:38,145 --> 00:24:39,980
Hi, I'm Susan Sarandon.
462
00:24:39,980 --> 00:24:41,440
As you may have heard,
463
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,859
I single-handedly am responsible
464
00:24:43,859 --> 00:24:47,529
for Donald Trump winning
the 2016 presidential election,
465
00:24:47,613 --> 00:24:49,031
the fall of Roe v. Wade
466
00:24:49,031 --> 00:24:50,741
and the return of polio.
467
00:24:51,325 --> 00:24:52,409
Probably.
468
00:24:52,409 --> 00:24:53,827
As the midterms approach,
469
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I wanted to inform the millions
of Americans who hang on my every word,
470
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who look to me for guidance
in all that you do,
471
00:25:01,335 --> 00:25:03,962
I release you.
472
00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:08,675
You no longer have to do what I say.
473
00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:12,262
I acknowledge, at times,
I have led this great nation astray.
474
00:25:12,346 --> 00:25:14,389
I told Hillary not to go to Wisconsin.
475
00:25:14,473 --> 00:25:16,850
I release you.
476
00:25:16,934 --> 00:25:17,935
It's true. I said,
477
00:25:17,935 --> 00:25:20,979
"I love Timothée Chalamet,
but don't put the boy in every movie."
478
00:25:21,647 --> 00:25:23,774
I release you.
479
00:25:23,774 --> 00:25:25,442
Honestly, it is just too much.
480
00:25:25,526 --> 00:25:28,946
I've got cats, I've got kids,
I've got allergies, I've got another job.
481
00:25:28,946 --> 00:25:30,030
Just--
482
00:25:30,030 --> 00:25:34,535
I release you from my power.
483
00:25:35,953 --> 00:25:39,706
So you are now free
to make your own decisions.
484
00:25:39,790 --> 00:25:41,583
You do the work. You follow the money.
485
00:25:41,667 --> 00:25:44,211
Just leave me the fuck alone.
486
00:25:44,211 --> 00:25:47,422
Susan! Susan. Susan, thank God.
-Jon! Hello.
487
00:25:47,506 --> 00:25:50,008
Almond butter or peanut butter?
'Cause I was gonna make a sandwich.
488
00:25:50,843 --> 00:25:52,219
You can eat whatever you want, Jon.
489
00:25:52,219 --> 00:25:54,304
No. No, you tell me.
490
00:25:54,388 --> 00:25:56,348
It's--
-No, no, no. It's your jars, you choose.
491
00:25:56,348 --> 00:25:59,059
They're both basically the same.
Just choose one, Jon.
492
00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:00,352
Alm--
-No, no, no.
493
00:26:00,352 --> 00:26:02,729
I'm not telling you which one to do--
-Can you just tweet it?
494
00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:06,900
I release you.
495
00:26:09,778 --> 00:26:11,738
And I release you.
496
00:26:13,782 --> 00:26:15,200
Don't fuck this up.
497
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,161
What the heck?
498
00:26:22,708 --> 00:26:27,713
So, we were talking about
Maricopa County in Arizona,
499
00:26:27,713 --> 00:26:32,968
so we went and spoke
to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich,
500
00:26:32,968 --> 00:26:37,222
who has been on the front lines
of investigating this voter fraud.
501
00:26:38,015 --> 00:26:40,350
Protecting state legislatures?
502
00:26:40,434 --> 00:26:43,353
Or... I'm really not sure what he's doing,
but enjoy.
503
00:26:43,854 --> 00:26:45,230
Welcome.
-Thank you, sir.
504
00:26:45,314 --> 00:26:48,442
We are talking about election integrity...
-Yes.
505
00:26:48,442 --> 00:26:53,572
...and you have gone through greats lengths
to ensure election integrity in Arizona.
506
00:26:54,323 --> 00:26:55,490
What I have done is--
507
00:26:55,574 --> 00:26:57,743
As the attorney general,
I always tell folks
508
00:26:57,743 --> 00:27:01,038
the job of our office
is to enforce the law as it is.
509
00:27:01,038 --> 00:27:04,750
And if people don't like the law,
then you can change your representatives.
510
00:27:04,750 --> 00:27:07,836
And we, historically in this country,
we settle our differences
511
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,673
through exercising our First Amendment
rights to speak and our right to vote.
512
00:27:11,757 --> 00:27:13,967
And so it's a very sacred obligation...
513
00:27:14,051 --> 00:27:15,093
Yes.
-...and we need to protect.
514
00:27:15,177 --> 00:27:16,845
But at the same time, Jon...
-Yes.
515
00:27:16,929 --> 00:27:18,847
...people need to have confidence
in the results.
516
00:27:18,931 --> 00:27:21,016
And so, what we have seen...
-Yes.
517
00:27:21,016 --> 00:27:22,976
...over the last few election cycles
518
00:27:23,060 --> 00:27:26,188
is every time whoever wins,
Democratic or Republican,
519
00:27:26,188 --> 00:27:27,731
there is sour grapes,
520
00:27:27,731 --> 00:27:33,487
and we now are in this cycle where every
single election gets nastier and nastier
521
00:27:33,487 --> 00:27:37,157
and whoever loses is claiming fraud
more and more and more.
522
00:27:37,241 --> 00:27:40,285
I don't think there's any real comparison
523
00:27:40,869 --> 00:27:44,706
between Trump's efforts
to overturn this election
524
00:27:45,207 --> 00:27:49,878
and anything I've ever seen before
in the history of the United States.
525
00:27:49,962 --> 00:27:52,965
Certainly in modern times.
-Yes, I think we all agree to that.
526
00:27:52,965 --> 00:27:54,675
We all know, and I will tell you this,
527
00:27:54,675 --> 00:27:57,302
I do think-- Look. I understand--
528
00:27:57,386 --> 00:28:00,556
And I'm a Republican, and I know
you and I may disagree on issues,
529
00:28:00,556 --> 00:28:03,934
but I do think it's important
how we talk about issues that matter.
530
00:28:03,934 --> 00:28:07,521
And I do think people
have to have confidence in the process.
531
00:28:07,521 --> 00:28:09,481
And I thought it was important, Jon.
-Yeah.
532
00:28:09,565 --> 00:28:10,983
We spent, as an office--
533
00:28:10,983 --> 00:28:13,735
Legislature funds us.
They created this election integrity unit.
534
00:28:13,819 --> 00:28:15,904
Yes.
-So we had run the stuff to ground.
535
00:28:15,988 --> 00:28:18,699
And we went through it,
and there was reports--
536
00:28:18,699 --> 00:28:20,784
All these people--
Allegations of dead people voting,
537
00:28:20,868 --> 00:28:22,411
they said the former president
was talking about it.
538
00:28:22,411 --> 00:28:23,745
And we looked into it.
539
00:28:23,829 --> 00:28:25,831
Right now, we have about,
540
00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:29,376
I think almost 20 criminal cases
related to the 2020 election.
541
00:28:29,376 --> 00:28:32,379
Out of 4 million votes?
-Yeah-- No, I'm talking in facts, Jon.
542
00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:36,175
But the reality is, is there are
millions of people, not only in Arizona,
543
00:28:36,175 --> 00:28:38,635
but people throughout this country,
that think the election is stolen.
544
00:28:38,719 --> 00:28:40,470
There's people that believe in angels,
545
00:28:40,554 --> 00:28:44,975
but that doesn't mean you launch an
investigation that angels changed ballots.
546
00:28:44,975 --> 00:28:46,852
But--
-Like-- Bit of a tautology.
547
00:28:47,603 --> 00:28:50,022
When you have a former president
spreading rumors...
548
00:28:50,022 --> 00:28:51,940
Yeah.
-...to his supporters.
549
00:28:52,024 --> 00:28:53,942
For instance, Trump can say...
550
00:28:56,820 --> 00:29:00,949
"74,000 mail-in ballots received
that were never mailed.
551
00:29:01,033 --> 00:29:02,326
Magically-appearing ballots.
552
00:29:02,326 --> 00:29:07,873
168,000 fraudulent ballots
printed on illegal paper.
553
00:29:07,873 --> 00:29:11,668
36,000 ballots
illegally cast by non-citizens."
554
00:29:11,752 --> 00:29:14,796
Now, the truth is, none of that was real.
555
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,967
When it first came out, the Cyber Ninjas
said Joe Biden won Arizona.
556
00:29:19,051 --> 00:29:21,595
Then they got a lot of pushback
and they started hedging and hawing,
557
00:29:21,595 --> 00:29:23,305
and then, next thing you know,
people are like,
558
00:29:23,305 --> 00:29:25,057
"Well, Brnovich
needs to do something about it."
559
00:29:25,057 --> 00:29:26,808
And then it was, like, a hot mess--
560
00:29:26,892 --> 00:29:28,977
But you've responded
by doing things about it.
561
00:29:29,061 --> 00:29:30,854
What I've done is--
-You've said you're still investigating--
562
00:29:30,938 --> 00:29:32,648
We've run a lot of this stuff to ground.
563
00:29:32,648 --> 00:29:34,358
And when you get it to ground,
564
00:29:34,358 --> 00:29:39,071
will you come out and say,
"Donald J. Trump is wrong.
565
00:29:40,030 --> 00:29:46,370
The election in Arizona was fair,
not stolen and not fraudulent"?
566
00:29:46,370 --> 00:29:48,580
I've always been a straight shooter
567
00:29:48,664 --> 00:29:50,749
and once--
No, once all the facts and evidence are--
568
00:29:50,749 --> 00:29:52,501
Jon! Jon, come on, man.
569
00:29:52,501 --> 00:29:53,627
I'm telling ya, I--
570
00:29:53,627 --> 00:29:58,423
You have found no evidence
that the election in Arizona
571
00:29:58,966 --> 00:30:02,845
was fraudulent
or stolen from Donald Trump.
572
00:30:02,845 --> 00:30:06,181
Donald Trump lost Arizona, period.
I've said that from the very beginning.
573
00:30:06,265 --> 00:30:09,768
There have been isolated incidences
thus far that we've identified...
574
00:30:09,852 --> 00:30:11,311
Yes.
-...and we are prosecuting.
575
00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:15,148
We still have some active investigations
going on, but people can
576
00:30:15,232 --> 00:30:17,067
draw their own conclusions.
-But on the main, there is--
577
00:30:17,067 --> 00:30:19,486
No, no, people cannot
draw their own conclusions.
578
00:30:19,570 --> 00:30:21,363
There is--
-That's the point of the law.
579
00:30:21,363 --> 00:30:24,032
Yeah, it is.
-The law is that you have facts...
580
00:30:24,116 --> 00:30:26,118
Right. Right.
-...and you have fiction.
581
00:30:26,118 --> 00:30:33,125
The fact is, the election in Arizona
was well-run, not fraudulent,
582
00:30:33,125 --> 00:30:37,880
and not stolen from Donald Trump,
according to even your investigations.
583
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,756
I have never said that it was--
584
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,384
Why is it so hard to just say yes to that?
585
00:30:42,384 --> 00:30:47,431
I guess because I've spent my entire--
most of my career as a prosecutor,
586
00:30:47,431 --> 00:30:49,641
and we still have some ongoing cases.
587
00:30:49,725 --> 00:30:52,352
Let me put it this way--
-So, in your mind, you still feel like,
588
00:30:52,436 --> 00:30:55,772
after all this, you're gonna discover...
-No.
589
00:30:55,856 --> 00:30:59,651
...a concerted effort to steal the election
from Donald Trump,
590
00:30:59,735 --> 00:31:02,404
and that it was fraudulent.
Is that what you're saying?
591
00:31:02,404 --> 00:31:05,991
No, that's not what I'm saying.
-So, why can't you say
592
00:31:05,991 --> 00:31:11,496
the election in 2020
was not stolen or fraudulent?
593
00:31:11,580 --> 00:31:13,749
I will tell you this. As I said--
594
00:31:13,749 --> 00:31:15,876
This is blowing my mind.
-Is it really?
595
00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:20,797
You can't say your conclusion
before you go through the entire process.
596
00:31:20,881 --> 00:31:22,549
That's what I said.
You and I are disagreeing...
597
00:31:22,633 --> 00:31:24,635
Right.
-...because you think that somehow,
598
00:31:24,635 --> 00:31:27,012
that makes me a weenie or that I'm--
599
00:31:27,012 --> 00:31:29,223
I'm entertaining conspiracy theories.
-Yeah.
600
00:31:29,223 --> 00:31:31,350
If I thought there was widespread fraud...
-Yes.
601
00:31:31,350 --> 00:31:34,228
...would I have certified the election or
read part of that certification process?
602
00:31:34,228 --> 00:31:37,481
You seem like you're playing
a little bit of a double game.
603
00:31:37,481 --> 00:31:39,608
I don't know if it's a double game.
-So, well--
604
00:31:39,608 --> 00:31:45,197
When it's convenient,
you go to the partisan side and you say,
605
00:31:45,197 --> 00:31:47,533
for instance,
as you did on Steve Bannon's show,
606
00:31:48,283 --> 00:31:50,035
"We all know what happened."
-Yeah.
607
00:31:50,702 --> 00:31:54,665
And you intimated that
"we all know what happened
608
00:31:54,665 --> 00:31:57,501
and I'm here to tell you,
I'm not gonna let it happen again."
609
00:31:59,044 --> 00:32:02,756
So what is it exactly
that happened in Maricopa County
610
00:32:03,382 --> 00:32:06,468
that you're not gonna let happen again,
that was fraudulent?
611
00:32:06,552 --> 00:32:09,972
What I said in relationship
to the Steve Bannon show,
612
00:32:09,972 --> 00:32:13,141
there was a lot of folks
complaining about everything going on,
613
00:32:13,225 --> 00:32:16,520
and we pointed out
that there was up to 200,000 ballots
614
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,063
that didn't have
a proper chain of custody.
615
00:32:18,063 --> 00:32:20,732
And that's why, if you listen
to the whole Steve Bannon thing,
616
00:32:20,816 --> 00:32:21,900
he said, "That's evidence of fraud,"
617
00:32:21,984 --> 00:32:24,778
and I said, "No, people can draw
their own conclusions."
618
00:32:24,862 --> 00:32:26,321
What you don't want
619
00:32:26,405 --> 00:32:28,365
is someone to be able to say...
-But there are--
620
00:32:28,365 --> 00:32:30,242
"These ballots didn't have
the chain of custody.
621
00:32:30,242 --> 00:32:32,703
Therefore, it's fraud."
-There are checks and balances
622
00:32:32,703 --> 00:32:34,538
within the Maricopa system
623
00:32:34,538 --> 00:32:39,168
that any gaps in chain of custody
are also cross-checked
624
00:32:39,751 --> 00:32:42,462
through signatures and verification,
and you know that.
625
00:32:42,546 --> 00:32:45,591
It's all bullshit,
and you know it's all bullshit.
626
00:32:45,591 --> 00:32:51,972
I think that elections in this country
are, in the main, run incredibly well.
627
00:32:51,972 --> 00:32:53,056
I think that's fact.
628
00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:58,145
But the real threat to democracy
in this country is,
629
00:32:58,145 --> 00:33:01,607
you have election officials
who've been threatened and harassed,
630
00:33:01,607 --> 00:33:04,568
who are quitting in large number, right?
631
00:33:05,652 --> 00:33:07,196
And what the legislature has done
632
00:33:07,196 --> 00:33:13,035
has made giving someone an absentee ballot
that didn't ask for it a felony.
633
00:33:13,035 --> 00:33:18,165
I can't tell you, our office received
hundreds, thousands of calls and emails.
634
00:33:18,165 --> 00:33:19,499
I've gotten death threats.
635
00:33:19,583 --> 00:33:22,044
In fact,
there's someone that just got indicted
636
00:33:22,044 --> 00:33:24,087
for threatening me over the 2020 election.
637
00:33:24,171 --> 00:33:25,923
So, I know what it's like
to be threatened.
638
00:33:25,923 --> 00:33:30,219
I know what it's like to have people
literally threatening to kill you.
639
00:33:30,219 --> 00:33:35,766
So have election officials and
vote recorders and all kinds of people.
640
00:33:35,766 --> 00:33:40,187
Why hasn't there been the same
hundreds of thousands of dollars
641
00:33:40,187 --> 00:33:45,442
spent on criminalizing
those threats to democracy as felonies,
642
00:33:45,526 --> 00:33:49,404
when all you've done is give credence
to the conspiracy theories?
643
00:33:49,488 --> 00:33:51,990
I know there's been some stories
about how much time and money
644
00:33:52,074 --> 00:33:53,700
we've spent on these investigations.
645
00:33:53,784 --> 00:33:55,285
Look, I'm not the legislature.
646
00:33:55,369 --> 00:33:58,997
When you have a legislature that says,
647
00:33:59,081 --> 00:34:00,874
"We're gonna fund
an election interrogating unit.
648
00:34:00,958 --> 00:34:03,585
You have an obligation
to investigate these complaints..."
649
00:34:03,669 --> 00:34:06,839
That's right.
-So that's the hand I've been dealt.
650
00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:09,842
Right. So you're saying you just
have to do what the legislature's doing,
651
00:34:09,842 --> 00:34:13,719
and if the legislature is screwy,
that puts you in a tough position.
652
00:34:14,471 --> 00:34:17,014
Is that what you're saying?
-I think we can agree on that.
653
00:34:17,099 --> 00:34:20,351
So it's dangerous to just allow
654
00:34:20,893 --> 00:34:24,438
ideological legislatures
to kind of run roughshod. Correct?
655
00:34:24,523 --> 00:34:26,608
There's supposed to be
a separation of powers, yes.
656
00:34:26,692 --> 00:34:31,697
So, why did you join
657
00:34:31,697 --> 00:34:34,283
with 12 other attorneys general
658
00:34:35,367 --> 00:34:36,994
on a brief to the Supreme Court,
659
00:34:37,578 --> 00:34:42,498
to allow legislatures
to override election laws in states?
660
00:34:42,583 --> 00:34:43,583
I...
661
00:34:44,293 --> 00:34:46,128
Maybe we'll once again
disagree with the premise...
662
00:34:46,210 --> 00:34:48,213
Okay.
-...I'm a big believer in federalism
663
00:34:48,297 --> 00:34:50,591
and, you know, Article 1, Section 10
of the Constitution...
664
00:34:50,591 --> 00:34:52,301
Okay.
-No, the time, place and manner, Jon,
665
00:34:52,301 --> 00:34:53,385
I know you think it's--
-Sure.
666
00:34:53,467 --> 00:34:55,387
I mean, these are ser--
667
00:34:55,469 --> 00:35:00,017
It's just all conveniently lining up.
Do you understand my point?
668
00:35:00,017 --> 00:35:02,352
I do.
-This all conveniently lines up
669
00:35:02,436 --> 00:35:07,691
when you have a group that's not looking
to shore up the security of elections,
670
00:35:07,691 --> 00:35:12,362
but to change the results to their favor,
is a bigger threat.
671
00:35:12,446 --> 00:35:16,200
But all I've seen
is work in that direction
672
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:21,872
and no work in the direction of protecting
the safety of election workers,
673
00:35:21,872 --> 00:35:25,501
vehemently convincing election deniers
674
00:35:25,501 --> 00:35:29,505
that the evidence so far
does not support them--
675
00:35:29,505 --> 00:35:31,798
No one,
whether they're an election official,
676
00:35:31,882 --> 00:35:33,842
whether they're a police officer,
677
00:35:33,926 --> 00:35:37,554
no one that's doing their job in a public
service should ever feel threatened.
678
00:35:37,638 --> 00:35:39,264
And we should do everything we can--
679
00:35:39,348 --> 00:35:40,557
But you're not.
-I am, though.
680
00:35:40,641 --> 00:35:42,559
That's not true, Jon.
681
00:35:42,643 --> 00:35:44,394
They're quitting.
-Jon.
682
00:35:44,478 --> 00:35:46,522
Look, we are doing everything we can.
683
00:35:46,522 --> 00:35:48,357
You're not.
-Yeah, we are. No, you're wrong.
684
00:35:48,357 --> 00:35:49,566
You're doing everything you can?
685
00:35:49,650 --> 00:35:51,610
Look-- But-- We're speaking frankly.
-Yeah.
686
00:35:52,110 --> 00:35:56,406
70% of Republicans in Arizona think
the election was stolen and fraudulent.
687
00:35:56,490 --> 00:35:58,325
Right. But you understand...
-I feel like I have a--
688
00:35:58,325 --> 00:35:59,826
...that's fucking crazy.
-I--
689
00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:02,746
Jon, I feel like that's why I have an--
-Say it's fucking crazy.
690
00:36:02,746 --> 00:36:04,581
I have an obligation--
-Just tell me that.
691
00:36:04,665 --> 00:36:06,667
The point, though, is I feel like when I--
692
00:36:06,667 --> 00:36:09,002
when we continue
to run all that stuff to ground...
693
00:36:09,086 --> 00:36:11,338
Yeah.
-...and demonstrate that it is--
694
00:36:11,338 --> 00:36:14,550
When it's not true, we come out
very forcefully and say this is wrong,
695
00:36:14,550 --> 00:36:15,592
it's not true--
-Let's say this then.
696
00:36:15,676 --> 00:36:17,761
When you're ready to release the report,
697
00:36:17,845 --> 00:36:19,513
when will that be? Do you know?
698
00:36:19,513 --> 00:36:21,014
Sooner rather than later, I'd hope.
-Great.
699
00:36:21,598 --> 00:36:26,520
Will you go out
and vehemently debunk all those issues?
700
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,439
I--
-As vehemently as needed.
701
00:36:30,399 --> 00:36:31,233
Absolutely.
702
00:36:32,526 --> 00:36:33,694
Thanks.
-Thanks for coming on.
703
00:36:33,694 --> 00:36:34,987
Second to you.
-Much appreciated.
704
00:36:34,987 --> 00:36:36,280
All right, nice one.
705
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,198
Well, there you have it.
706
00:36:38,282 --> 00:36:39,366
That's fine.
707
00:36:39,366 --> 00:36:41,410
What? What could go wrong?
708
00:36:43,161 --> 00:36:44,371
You know what?
709
00:36:46,415 --> 00:36:49,126
Elections aren't really that important
anyway. Who gives a shit?
710
00:36:50,294 --> 00:36:53,881
For more resources, please check out
these websites that you can go to
711
00:36:53,881 --> 00:36:57,009
or check out our website.
Let us know if it has any typos.
712
00:36:57,009 --> 00:37:01,221
I've never been on it
because I'm illiterate, I can't read.
713
00:37:03,223 --> 00:37:06,935
Whenever I go into restaurants,
I just open the menu and go, "Hungry!"
714
00:37:09,021 --> 00:37:11,648
We also have a podcast
that I do my own stunts for.
715
00:37:11,732 --> 00:37:14,651
And now, proof that even God
has a margin of error.
716
00:37:14,735 --> 00:37:16,737
Here it is, your moment of Cruz.
717
00:37:16,737 --> 00:37:21,783
Many of those volunteers, many
of those contributions, you never forget.
718
00:37:22,409 --> 00:37:23,869
Just a few days ago,
719
00:37:23,869 --> 00:37:30,250
two young kids, ages 4 and 6,
handed me two envelopes full of change.
720
00:37:31,835 --> 00:37:35,088
All of their earnings
from their lemonade stand.
721
00:37:36,173 --> 00:37:38,008
They wanted the campaign to have it.
722
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That's what built this campaign,
that's what fueled this movement.