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How VotifyNow Aspires to Have One Leg Up On Election Integrity · OneLegUpAlex Media

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All right, Well, I gotta be honest. One of the big things
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that I really do want to see in the twenty four election, and if
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people worted things differently, election integrity would be on the top of everybody's mind,
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as it should be. And it seems like it's on the tip of
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my next guest, Johnny Vieira's mind. That's why he's created the app votified
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Now. And I think I think Johnny, I'd like to say, one
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leg up, you might be having one leg up on election integrity. Tell
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us about this app and thanks for joining me today. Yeah, absolutely,
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thanks for having me. Yeah. Votify Now is it basically a platform that
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I'd say the inception started probably before even twenty twenty. I got to thinking
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around twenty sixteen, when people like Stacy Abrams was more fresh on our minds.
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Hillary Clinton, you know, the left was certainly talking about election issues
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long before twenty twenty. We started this build around twenty nineteen to try to
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give both the left and the right. It's a nonpartisan, bipartisan excuse me
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app or I guess you could say nonpartisan, And the whole idea was for
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us to just bring more transparency to elections. We don't. We We're just
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basically we aggregate incidents that are happening that users are reporting in their area,
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and then in a real specific and secure way, we share these incidents with
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everybody in the area so that everyone gets a quick view within minutes, and
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it's all in real time. Everybody could take a look and see what's happening
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around them, and it might they might change or alter their voting plans based
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on what's happening in their communities. So that's the core of what votify now
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does. It does do several other functionalities. There's a canvassing tool, there
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is a section to voted to city council and school supervisor elections and meetings.
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There's said we have a border concern with the borders being open, but these,
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especially as we get closer to important election cycles, these these these other
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areas are sort of on the back burner because the whole ballgame is election integrity
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and that's what we're focused on. We absolutely don't get involved in influencing anybody's
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vote. In fact, that is a taboo around here. No, I'm
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talking purely about where someone might vote or how they might what stop are they
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going to do in early is their problems with early mailand do they one to
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do the day of So I'll give you a perfect example. Let me give
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you a quick synopsis of the two functionalities the votify Now does. A user
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downloads the app and we encourage everybody to download if they can go to App
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Store for their iPhone or Google Play Store for their Android phone, or go
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to our website which is a hub of information and the download links. That's
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votify now dot org and vote if I spelled botify now. But the two
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functionalities, as a user would go, they would download the app, make
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sure that you check your junk and spam folder for the verification code. We
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get so many people asking as words by verification code. But once they have
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the app, they can go to the electron Integrity section and they could very
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easily report a description of what they're seeing as far as what they're suspecting of
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nefarious or maybe they just don't know what they're seeing so they're reporting something that
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could be perfectly harmless. They report the incident, they could take a quick
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photo or up to a thirty second video of the incident, and then it's
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automatically timestamped and GEO targeted where they're apt and that they hit the submit button,
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that incident comes to our secured servers. All this has all happened through
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APIs, it's split seconds. And then once we have the incident again within
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seconds, we have some real smart functionality that sort of looks for false flags.
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And I can't obviously publicly tell you what our defenses are against fake or
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false flags. We don't want to give the bad guys you know, our
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plans. But we vet these incidents and then we go ahead and we turn
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around and we put the incident on the user. All the users in the
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area's phone. So if you're in New York and you I don't know your
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county's out there, but you're in a county in the state of New York,
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you report an incident and it will automatically that incident gets turned into a
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dot, and the dot gets placed exactly where the incident happened on the map,
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so that other users can go onto the app, they go to view
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the additional incident section, and there they'll see where they're located, and they'll
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see these dots around them. The dots represent all the reports. They're color
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coded red being the most nefarious all the way, yellow orange being lesser serious,
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and then white being sort of a benign. We have a brand new
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dot, by the way, called blue, a blue dot which is an
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It means it's unverified. We're still in the middle of verifying it, but
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we decided we're going to share it anyways. The reason these dots are so
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helpful is that when the user goes to the additional Incidents so again the app
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is used to report incidents or also go check and see what's happening around them.
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And once the user opens up the additional incident section, they see themselves,
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they see the dots around them, and then they click the dot and
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the full description of the incident, along with the photo and video opens up
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and the users can see what's happening in real time. So maybe they were
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planning on voting in the north part of town and there's a bunch of red
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dots meaning all kinds of a various activity. Well, if they have the
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option, I don't know if New York New York City has it, but
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if different counties around the country have the option to vote in multiple places,
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maybe they might choose to vote somewhere else or do something different based on the
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information that they're seeing. We don't influence anybody. We just share what other
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voters in the area are doing in a real fast way so that maybe people
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can avoid long lines, or maybe people are reporting broken voting machines or whatever
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the situation is. All we do is share that in a real timely manner.
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We let yeah, we let people see what is being shared so they
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can make their own decisions. Well, a couple of things here that feels
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like the Citizen app here in New York, where we get to see exactly
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like a pinpointed hut zone if you will on the Citizen appen, I don't
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know if you're if you of the crimes, yeah, exactly. So it
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is kind is something like it is something like that. It is something similar,
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but we go into the weeds a bit, and we're not controlled by
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any state or municipalities. This is a sort of private citizen app. And
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also it's decentralized, not controlled by any one party. But for example,
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we would give the State of New York the access to work with all the
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app users in New York. We don't want one company controlling all this information
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that comes in from the APP. So the goal of the APP is to
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section off all these different counties or states so that the proper officials and party
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leaders can have access to working with their own constituents helping out you know.
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So basically, in the best case scenario, a secretary of state would have
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their votifying out for their state and they could be the ones responsible for helping
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out their voters in what could potentially be problems. We don't you ever use
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certain terms, but there is election irregularities. I think it's safe to say
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abnormalities, and we just present them to the users and allow them to make
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their own decisions and whenever you go ahead, Sorry, if politicians use that
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term irregularity or election integrity, obviously it may not be spicy, right,
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It sounds a little more how you say, It sounds a little more academic
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to say. But yeah, but that would get the point across even more
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than just saying this word or that word, right. I feel like they
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don't touch it the right way. And you'd agree with me, yeah,
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one hundred percent. And if I have another quick minute, I'd like to
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share with you the second functionality, which is equally important that first one,
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with the incidents being turned into dots on a map so that voters can see.
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The second thing we do is all the incidents, they're also vetted,
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and then they're turned into PDF reports, and we send these PDF reports the
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incidents. They're all filed properly, inner report. We send these reports out
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to party officials, law enforcement, independent journalists. We send the incidents every
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thirty minutes on election day to those officials so that they're seeing what's happening in
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their communities in real time and they can make decisions. No longer do we
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think anybody, any candidates should find out any election irregularities days later. We
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want them hearing about anything that's happening at nine o'clock. We want them to
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know about it by nine thirty am, and we put another report out and
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so on throughout the day so that party leaders, journalists, law enforcement can
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can look into these things and be kept up to speed. So that's sort
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of the mission of votify Now. We were very active in the midterms for
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twenty twenty two. We our evidence that was generated from votify Now was key
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in the carry Lake case, even though of course we cannot be we're not
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involved in the outcome. The judge can do whatever they want, but we
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were the ones that gave her legal team. Carry Lake's legal team the incidents
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about the misprinter ballots shrink to fit, not fitting in the in the machines
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properly. That was a votify now incident and that was the staple of their
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case. Again, we can't control whether they win or lose, but we
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did accomplish our mission in getting evidence and having evidence used in a case.
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So it's a two prong approach. We supply evidence to the authorities and Kennedy
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teams, and we also give the users this information in real time to help
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them. And votify Now has been very successful of doing those two things all
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right. Obviously in New York we are eight million people. There's a lot
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of frustration on voting day, even in the early voting, all the lines
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through the blocks, and are you telling me votify now could possibly help you
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figure out which is the best what do they call voting precinct? I guess
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you'd say polling places to go in your district there. Well, again,
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not being familiar with every single precinct in the country, I don't know if
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the particular area you're talking about there's only one place that you could vote.
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Some places they dedicate a specific precinct location that if you live in this area,
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you vote here. Others let you pick. So I can't speak to
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that specifically, but what I can tell you is if someone wants information on
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that precinct, I can guarantee you there's probably been some votify now users already
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reporting on that location. And then again, whatever the user wants to do
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is purely up to them. All we do is present them with the information
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in a timely manner, and I'm talking about within minutes, so that they
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can they can make their own decisions. Again, some places, I think
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the voters still has to go to their location. And we don't pretend to
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solve every problem. We're only just trying to help the process a little bit
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with transparency and quick information. And we feel that if we could even make
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a small difference in strengthening election integrity, then we've sort of, you know,
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we've completed our mission and we've done our civic duty. Well, I
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gotta say those are debate this week. So I think mindsets are starting to
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turn into twenty twenty four almost every day, right, So, New We're
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looking, We're really looking for users in New Jersey for you. You guys
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have an upcoming November election. I'm not sure if it's a gutatorial race,
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but I know New Jersey's got an important election. So please New Jersey ands
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sign up for votify Now. And if you see something, say something reported
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on the app, well I'm glad, I'm glad. We're gonna we're gonna
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pinpoint New Jersey on this. But I gotta ask you this. I feel
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like you have this mission as the founder CEO of votify Now, to instill
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voter confidence again, because we do know that voter confidence is quite low.
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I don't know if that's a buzzword that will cancel this podcast, but it's
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a truth. There's a lack of voter confidence and maybe this app's gonna help
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instill more confidence in our elections. There is a lack I mean, we
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get thousands of emails a week and there is a major lack of confidence.
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And again, all we do is try to boost that confidence by by just
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shining a light on it. Votifying nowt could be looked at as just a
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light that we try to shine on whatever's happening. And by the way,
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if there's no irregularities, then there'll be no reports, so there'll be nothing
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to see when anybody opens up the report. So if everything is crystal clear
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elections, then beautiful. By the way, we're hoping that everything is clean
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and there's no reports coming in, But if there is anything coming in that
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looks suspicious and we feel as a genuine incident, we're going to share it
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and we'll let voters decide what they want to do with that information. We
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all know, to be honest, how the media feels about the election integrity
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and they sometimes shy away from it. And is that a tussle to get
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this out to the media or do you find it an easy connection with them?
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Hey, we got this incident, can you report on the news?
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Like, how does that work? Well, that's a great point, and
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that's a really good question. So right now we have had our challenges getting
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our friends on the left to embrace the app only because right now I think
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the term quote election integrity not popular with the left. But I certainly remember
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Stacy abrams gubatorial race. I believe it was twenty sixteen, and I remember
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hearing a lot of stuff about election problems then. And also I remember Hillary
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Clinton mentioning a lot of issues in twenty sixteen, so it wasn't always where
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it was just conservatives talking about election integrity. But you are right, we
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do have a lot of conservative users, but the app is definitely a bipartisan
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app. We definitely encourage anyone on the left or the right to report anything
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that they think might be worth sharing. And I'm really hoping and planning in
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the future to get more incidents from the left. Johnny, I'm sure people,
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I'm sure you're well known in these circles with this app and whatnot,
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but maybe people don't know your story, how you wanted to start this app.
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Maybe you face some motor frustration over the years, even just watching the
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news, like what what inspired me to do this? Now? Unfortunately I
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don't have any story that sexy. No, I'm I'm I'm really not a
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political guy. I come from an inventor, entrepreneur, startup background, so
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pretty much ever since I was a kid, and a lot of founders,
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can you know, whether it's a you know, a Zuckenberg or a base
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they all it's almost the same story. You know, you you try,
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You're always trying to solve a problem. Most things fail, especially when it's
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a business model. And this is all I've ever done. Pretty much dropped
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out of college, you know, and this is pretty much all I've ever
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done. I built my first little company when I was a teenager, probably
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fourteen years old, and they were still selling which I'm you know, aging
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myself a bit. They were still selling cellular phone products. So I tried
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to create a catchy name called ABC America's Best Cellular Products, and funny enough
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that it was actually a red, white and blue logo with the country,
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you know, America's Best. That's a funny coincidence. That was the very
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first company I started, where I would buy stuff. Originally I'd have to
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buy stuff, you know, retail almost prices, and then mark it up
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and would That was my first business, a little brick and mortar. Eventually
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I found a wholesaler overseas and was bringing stuff in, but I wasn't even
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I was in high school. And then eventually went into other other areas.
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Most recently, I built a large platform for a financial company who wanted to
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modernize their brick and mortar. It was called Tribe Fluence. It's still live
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and in fact the company never used it, but they did, they did
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acquire it. They ended up giving it back to me, which was a
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whole that's a whole another story because they just that with COVID and most of
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the staff they had to layoffs, so they said, we don't want this
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to go to waste. But it was a big It was a big system
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similar to voti fy. Now. It solved a problem that this financial company
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had, and it was the same sort of thing. There was a big
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web, a website that held everything, and then there was an app for
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Android and iPhone and we the app performed a solution to this financial company's problem.
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So that was around twenty eighteen that that sort of they acquired and took
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that over, and then by nineteen it gave me the time to focus on
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my next thing. And I knew election integrity was something I wanted to conquer.
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I felt a personal kind of duty. And this is even before twenty
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twenty, so I guess I was a little ahead of my tongue, but
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I knew that I had the right solution in my head. But of course,
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trying to digitize all that, even with the full development team, still
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took about three and a half years to build this. We went live about
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two years ago, and of course it was a clunky release with lots of
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bugs. But by the time the mid terms came around in twenty twenty two,
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we were up and functioning. We had thousands of reports coming across the
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country. Unfortunately, we want a big enough name that a lot of the
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candidates were using. Our info was used in the Kerry Lake trial. But
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for these upcoming elections in November of twenty twenty three, I believe it's Virginia,
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New Jersey, Kentucky, and Louisiana. We really are focusing on him
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in a strong presence. And then of course we're going to really be ready
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to go full guns blazing for the general in twenty twenty four. Do you
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hope this happ inspires the generations after you and me and others to get to
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the polls? Is this app going to help revolutionize the gen zers? I
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mean that they can get to the polls that one of Is that a hope
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for you? Well, we certainly would love to be a part of that.
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We don't think necessarily one platform can do such a monumental thing, but
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sure we would like to be a part of that movement to get people motivated.
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And the great thing about votify now is it lets the everyday citizen be
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involved in sort of citizen policing elections or at least, you know, citizen
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journalism, being able to report what they're seeing and then share it with others.
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And that's what that's what votify Now was made to do, and we
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do think that it will inspire people to get more involved. We've already got
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a lot of people excited about it and we've had some great interviews John Solomon,
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just the News, those guys just did a big piece on us,
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and it's the user base has grown. We've probably got somewhere between two hundred
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and five hundred thousand users. We're looking to get to about two million to
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three million users by the general and we're on track to hit that mark and
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that's where we'll make a significant difference. All Right, a lot of apps
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today are facing the whole do they censor people? Do they not? And
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let's be honest, you have to stay on these big tech platforms. As
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we were discussing a bit off air, so the users start saying, oh,
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well this word, that word, are they allowed to stay on or
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do are there rules to how you can report so you guys can keep that
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platform. That's an interesting question. No, well, I'm glad you brought
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that up. We encourage everybody to download the app now, as soon as
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possible, share it with everybody, because once you download the app, you've
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got the app forever. What we can't control is if the app ever gets
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removed or pushed off of one of these app stores. But we follow the
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rules and their ts, their terms of service to the t and both Google
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play Store and Android excuse me an app store are extremely strict about following.
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So there is nothing on our apps that are not with the blessing of those
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agencies. And again, we're doing nothing more than just letting people share information.
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But if you're asking me, would we if someone is trying to report
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bogus information, would we tolerate it? Probably not. If we catch anybody
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trying to plant a false flag, I can guarantee you they're instantly deleted,
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not even we're not even gonna have a conversation with them, because if you're
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planting a fake incident, you've got extremely nefarious intentions. It's not now,
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and that's completely separate than somebody reporting something that's just benign and harmless. You
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know that we probably it probably gets wiped out before it even hits us,
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because we have some AI and some smart functionality that's really looking at things closely
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before it ever makes it to us. It's sort of vetted or being a
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bot or you know. But assuming it makes it to us, if it
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looks harmless, we will report it. We'll share it anyways. And again
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that's where the color coding of the dots come into place. That kind of
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an incident that we can't tell it looks probably harmless, but we don't think
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somebody's up to no good. We don't think someone's planting a false flag.
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Then we would give a white dot, and that means that this is probably
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a harmless or of a nign incident. I think yellow is the next level,
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which would mean it's the next stage orange, and then red means this
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is probably something suspicious. People should probably take a look. Now, we
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don't want our users to only look at red incidents red dots, but that's
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why we did the color coding. And then again a brand new feature is
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the blue dot. And the reason this is so important is because some incidents
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take longer to verify than others, yet still might be valuable. So we've
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created this blue dot, which means the incident has been reported, it hasn't
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been thoroughly vetted otherwise, it hasn't gone through all the processes that it does
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to get a color code. But we still let the user pop up box
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appears and says, hey, this is still being vetted. Do you still
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want to take a look at it? The user can say yes or no.
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And then also we will let the users report as a fake. If
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the user feels that that unverified incident is a fake incident, we let them
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report it. And of course I can't give the number out, but if
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there is a certain number of reports on incidents being reported as a fake,
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then it calls our attention over to take a closer look at that incident,
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and if we feel that it's not a genuine incident, we will remove it.
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So that's why the that's the purpose of the blue unverified dot, which
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is very important. Well, Johnny Vierre are real fast, you know.
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Obviously it's a big deal to be NEME to be in that involved with the
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carry Lake case and what she's fighting down there. Johnny A couple of things.
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There's there's a push to get the lever right back to the lever form
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of voting, where he Puss pull the lever and whatever else to the high
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tech stuff goes out the window slash, paper ballots come back in. Will
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that put you out of business? Or are we What I mean by that
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is, would paper ballots be the answer? Or is this I don't see
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that happening soon. Sorry for interrupting me. There no words happening soon.
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And by the way, if there's anything that puts election irregularities or abnormalities,
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if there's anything that puts that out of business, I'll be the first to
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vote for I'll be the first in line. So that's one of those things.
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We should be so lucky that everything goes so clean that there's no need
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for votify now. So no, I don't feel that way at all.
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And I don't see that happening in the next two election cycles. Maybe twenty
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thirty two, I don't know, Maybe twenty twenty eight, I doubt it.
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That's that's a very complex issue, and that's way beyond my pay grade.
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I don't I'm not a politician, and I don't get involved in that.
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I'm a problem solver and Votify now is just solving the problem of voter
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lack of voter confidence and trying to make these election issues more transparent. We're
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more folks can see what's going on quicker, so that maybe it helps them
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understand what's happening and they can make decisions on how they want or where they
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want to go. Again, it's up to them. All we do is
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present the information that others are reporting. We've got no horse in the race
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as they say, or dog in the race, whatever the expression is.
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Johnny Viera, you mentioned that this is a bipartisan app. So have you
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gotten Washington's sam of approval? Have you gotten senators and congress people to notice
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the votifi app or you know what's left? Do you mean on the left?
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You mentioned bipartisan? Well, yeah, because it sounds like you guys
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are sort of a bipartisan app. So does that mean you have biparson voters
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or actually approval on both sides too. We're still a pretty new so three
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years is brand new in the app game. Yeah, the twenty twenty two,
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the elections that are coming about ten months ago, that was our first
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real proof of concept. So I would say again, ask me that question.
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After twenty twenty four, we're just now getting to the point where we're
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getting party leaders. Yeah, we're not We're not that well. Now we're
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probably the most well known because votify Now has been around the longest. There
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is no other election election integrity app. There is a bunch of these b
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s. I almost cursed because I get so enraged. There's a bunch of
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these b s election integrity websites that people claim, you know, you can
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report something. Really, all it is is a WordPress website that somebody,
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you know, my nine year old needs could build the word press website in
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a day, you know, and you could report the incident. And then
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of course they have a bunch of donate buttons. So that's for the most
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part, all there is out there besides votify Now. So we're finally starting
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to rise above the noise. People realize, Okay, this is the real
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deal. Also, we don't take any donations. We don't take a dime.
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Doesn't mean that I wouldn't, you know, bring on a Peter Field
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or a you know, insert your big superdnor's name here. It's like it
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doesn't mean we wouldn't do that. We need at some point help because we
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can't just keep you know, funding everything out of my pot. It doesn't
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work that way, you know, it wouldn't. It could not sustain.
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But that said, I refuse to take donations, especially with people hurting out
29:30
there. There's no way we're going to take just a regular family who's concerned
29:33
about their elections. There's no way we're taking their money. They shouldn't have
29:37
those election concerns. So it's sure as long money I love. I love
29:42
that idea. They shouldn't be concerned with the way they the election process and
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the voting concerns. All right, You mentioned John Solomon. He's a friend
29:53
of the radio station I work where he comes on a lot. But what
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about the liberal side, I mean, can they come on? And especially
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I'm thinking of like democracy now with Amy Goodman. Isn't preserving democracy like what
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you guys are about? Come on, they tell you, let me tell
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you something, man, oh man, if you knew how hard I've tried,
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and I'm gonna keep trying to get the left mainstream media. By the
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way, I'm one hundred percent convinced they will start talking about it very soon.
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It's one of those things that they'll ignore you till they can't ignore you.
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But we certainly make an effort to try and get them to talk.
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And by the way, I'm one hundred percent prepared to be interviewed by a
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mainstream media outlet and be and I'm ready to be grilled and thrown under the
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bus, you know, I'm ready. It's funny to me that these media
30:44
outlets are saying how democracy is dead now because of a certain someone in the
30:48
White House from four years ago, yet they don't want to take the steps
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to ensure democracy, which means me leads me to my next question, Johnny
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Vieira, our republic or a democracy? I think that's the told debate,
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isn't it. I don't that's a Civics one oh one question. I think
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the right answer is a republic. But again, I don't claim to be
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any scholar. I mean, even though that's a basic question, I'm purely
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a problem solver and I've got a knack of being able to do it now
31:19
technically, which of course, everything happens online. If you're trying to solve
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problems, unless you're building a brick, you have people on the ground in
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every city or is it just you or how does that work? Well,
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I'm not going to get into details on how big our reach is, but
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we've got hundred of thousands of users, and I will share one important aspect.
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If anybody goes to votify now dot org, there's an explainer video that's
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brand new. It automatically plays when you go to votify now dot org and
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you can also download the app there and in that video it explains how the
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app works, and then equally important, it talks about our co admin panel.
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The co admin panel is well, an admin panel is the back end
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that controls the app. That's where you can set the functionality. And we've
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intentionally we created a co admin panel with the pure intentions of giving making this
32:19
decentralized so that every state or county can have their own access and work with
32:25
their own constituents, their own states app users. So it's a co admin
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looks just like the admin panel that the master admin panel to votify now uses,
32:37
but we give them a copy of it and we assign the state to
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them. So that's the endgame is complete decentralization where every state or a group
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of counties within the state. However, works out could have their own co
32:53
admin access and work directly with their users. Now. Right now, we
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don't have a lot of that again because it's still relatively new, but that's
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the plan, and we would we would give access to folks on the left
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and the right that access because we monitor and we could quickly see if anybody
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is up to any you know, funny business. Once we hand them over
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the admin access to the voter voter and app users in their state, we
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could quickly see if they're up to any funny business, in which case we
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at the click of a button, we shut up their access and they would
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no longer have access. But other than that, we do not get involved.
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If you are a Secretary of State and you take over voterify, now
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you would get access to the coadmin panel. You would create a username and
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a password, and then you can go ahead and change your password to a
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private password that we don't have access to, and you could go ahead and
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work with your own app users in your area. Again, as long as
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we would just check in. We have certain things. Again, I can't
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get give up company secrets. We have certain things that would sense not not
34:07
an algorithm, but other things we use to detect if there's, for example,
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if there's mass deleting happening of incidents. So we have certain things that
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would get triggered to make sure that we're not handing it to any bad actors
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handing the access. But it would be open to any party leaders on both
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the left and the right, because in my opinion, the app won't truly
34:30
be successful the platform, I should say, until it is embraced by both
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sides of the aisle, and that's that's the mission. Well, I'm so
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glad you mentioned secretaries of state. Obviously last election a lot of secretaries of
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state were under fire, if you will, by both sides. So is
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it important to have that that connection, like, hey, you know you
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want to put on a healthy election for your state, Hey, get in
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touch with us. That would be a big step, wouldn't it. Yeah.
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Well, by the way, I'm glad you mentioned that. So I
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was working with or had a relationship with Mark Fincham when he was running for
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Secretary of State Arizona, and he was a great endorser. He was talking
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about votify now leading up to his election, and it was amazing because by
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him speaking about it. It really gave us a lot of users. That's
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why we encourage, we try so hard to get involved with these candidates,
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because when the candidates talk about the app, their potential constituents listen, and
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it only can help the candidates by people reporting anything they see that they feel
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is you know, suspicious, let's call it now. That would have been
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a perfect pilot program. If Fincham would have got in a secretary of state,
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the plan would have been that he would have got one of these you
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know, co admin access and he would be using him and his team would
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be using votify now as part of their I'm sure part of their fuller would
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be I'd be one spoke in the wheel. I'm sure of you know what
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they're doing. I don't. Again, that's above my pay grade. But
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but they would have used it, and he would have handled Arizona, and
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Arizona would have officially been off of the voter Finals things to do list,
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you know. So unfortunately he did not get in, and and we are
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we have not been asked by their new secretary of state. I think his
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name is flint As, but certainly it's available, you know. Again,
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we make the app the co admin access available for any leaders, whether they're
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on the left or the right. Well, Johnny, I hope I didn't
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confuse a listener by asking these questions. But I get where you're coming from
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that it's only citizen based. We want to have people having an easier election
36:50
experience on the ground as a voter, not so much as an officials.
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Right, everything citizen based were just helping out well by the way we do.
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We do offer to get involved with the candidates, but then the candidates
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would make would use votify now is just one of their many tools, and
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then they decide what they want to do with that information. We just present
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them again, think of votify now is a light that we shine in real
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time on what's happening, and we feel that that's what's missing right now in
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elections. So we're just open to make things more transparent. And again,
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if there's nothing to see there, if there's no there there, then beautiful.
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That would be a good thing. All right. I feel like we
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have to have you back because I can talk about this and obviously you're launching
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this press tour if you will now on the Heroes of the Big Year coming
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up in twenty four. Well, let's also be an effector in the primary
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season as well. Sure, but mostly for well the special elections coming up
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in those four states that I name, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey,
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Virginia. That's November twenty twenty three. But certainly we are involved months ahead
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of time. With early mailing. We had a lot leading up to the
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mid terms. We had many, many people reporting issues on mailing. You
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wouldn't believe the stuff that we got. People like I've received ten bot or
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there's a pile of ballots in my apartment complex, a stack of them,
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you know, a hundred or or other abnormalities of someone telling me they got
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and by the way, they provide the evidence. They showed the image getting
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a text from this from from the officials. It's happened a lot in Arizona
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where they would get a text saying, this is you know, so and
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so election board. We want to let you know that we received your ballot
38:45
and verified your signature, so know that your vote has counted. And then
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they would pan over and show their ballot in their hand, not even sent
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out yet, and I thought, wow, like, you know, that
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doesn't seem I think that might go into the orange or red category as suspicious,
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because how do you get told that your vote was counted and you're sitting
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here holding your ballot in your hand. You know, it's like it's unbelievable.
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There's no there's no way votify now works. If we have to be
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behind any red tape, it would we be dead in the water. The
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whole idea of Votify now being run by people for the people, a citizens
39:30
tool, is that there is no red tape, and that's how we're able
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to share things instantly with people because there's no government red tape. That's you
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know, it's just here's what someone's And by the way, we're not doing
39:45
anything different than what somebody would go to vote and then they post something a
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picture on Twitter and say, hey, you guys, this is weird.
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Look onto it. I mean that happens. We're just trying to really scale
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that up to happen nationwide. Well, Johnny Vieira, thanks so much,
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and we will definitely have you back on As this app is is out there,
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I'm going to download it myself, check it out and I'll let you
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know how it is. Please do and I appreciate the time and encourage everybody
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to download votify now. That's spelled vot I f y n OW. Go
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to votify now dot org or all the information and links, or go to
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your app store for your particular phone and download it. And I appreciate the
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time, Thank you so much. That was Johnny Vieira. He has one
40:34
leg up on the election integrity with votify Now. Stay tuned for more on
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the Alex Garrett podcast Network