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Ohio Sec of State Frank LaRose - Today is election day! · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station seven thirty come up with seven thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, look, it's election day.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't get the memo, get out and vote,
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  Speaker 1: somebody knows all about that works very hard to ensure
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio, the state of ohouse the gold standard for
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  Speaker 1: election integrity. Welcome back to the fifty five KRFC Morning Show,
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  Speaker 1: House Secretary of State Frank Larrose. Great to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Today, Frank Brian, Happy Election Day. One hour ago the
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  Speaker 2: polling locations opened. I was listening to your traffic report
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  Speaker 2: just now. I was surprised to hear that there wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a massive traffic jam at every polling location. Because we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have huge turnout today everybody, well at least it
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  Speaker 2: should be that way, right, Everybody should be really excited
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  Speaker 2: to get out of vote in these local elections. They
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  Speaker 2: have a huge impact.
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  Speaker 1: On your life. I mean, this is election year. This
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  Speaker 1: is like a presidential election year for the citizens of
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  Speaker 1: the city of Cincinnati. We got an entire council slate
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  Speaker 1: to vote on and the mayor. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: dissatisfied with the direction of the city. And I know
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of other people outside of the city
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  Speaker 1: that have no controlleror say over it. But what happens
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati has a profound impact on all the regions.
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  Speaker 1: And yet Secretary of State Frank LeRose, they anticipate if
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  Speaker 1: any if the prior, if the pass is indicative of
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  Speaker 1: future a voter turnout would be lucky if we get
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the people to vote.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tale of two different cycles in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways in Ohio because when you look at the
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  Speaker 2: even numbered years twenty twenty, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: we've had massive turnout. Like I always laugh when the
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  Speaker 2: leftists and the liberal groups say that I try to
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  Speaker 2: suppress the vote, because if that's my objective, I stink
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  Speaker 2: at it. We're not suppressing anything we've had. We've had
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  Speaker 2: huge turnout in Ohio, and we're really proud of that,
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  Speaker 2: really massive turnout in Ohio. And then a year later,
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  Speaker 2: when you have an odd numbered year, when you have
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  Speaker 2: a local election, it drops, as you mentioned, sometimes in
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  Speaker 2: the teams or twenty percent range. It's too bad because
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  Speaker 2: we all know it matters who lives in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me as a reservist in the Army. It matters
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  Speaker 2: who my commander in chief is and who our president is.
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  Speaker 2: But what probably makes a bigger impact on your daily
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  Speaker 2: life is not who lives in the White House, but
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  Speaker 2: who works at the courthouse or the schoolhouse or city hall.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the decision that we're making. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: decisions that we're making right now. Here's the other thing, Bran,
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  Speaker 2: I get this from people all the time. They say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I know, it's important, but I just
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  Speaker 2: don't know enough and I don't want to guess. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not a good excuse me. If you just go
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  Speaker 2: to our website vote Ohio dot gov, you can look
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  Speaker 2: at what's called your sample ballot. Heck, this is what
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  Speaker 2: Lauren and I did last night. Literally, we put the
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  Speaker 2: kids to bed. I printed off our sample ballot because
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  Speaker 2: even as involved as I am, I wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I knew all the different judges and city council
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  Speaker 2: candidates and school board candidates. And we sat there as
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  Speaker 2: a couple and we talked about our choices and now
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  Speaker 2: we're ready to go. She and I. Ay's going to
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  Speaker 2: go vote today. So it's easy to do just a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of research. You're not going to find any
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  Speaker 2: lines that you're polling locations. I mean, you'll be in
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  Speaker 2: and out in fifteen minutes. You're going to get a
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  Speaker 2: free eye voted sticker. For heaven's sake, you should get
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  Speaker 2: out and make your voice heard today. It really does matter.
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  Speaker 1: Vote Ohio dot com. We have a couple of very
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  Speaker 1: important judicial races here locally. Betsy Sunman and Josh barker Witz,
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  Speaker 1: both very good and strong on crime, excellent jurists, and
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  Speaker 1: we got a real topic conversation around here, which is
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  Speaker 1: the increase in crime. Well, here's a way to solve
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  Speaker 1: the judicial problem. Vote for Sunderman and Barkerwitz. So, Frank LeRose,
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  Speaker 1: I want to appeal to you.
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  Speaker 2: You want you want tough judges, and those are two
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  Speaker 2: that are tough and fair. You want good mayors and
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  Speaker 2: city council members. At no secret that I've been out
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  Speaker 2: supporting Corey Bowman for a long time. He's a good
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  Speaker 2: man and I think going to do a good job
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  Speaker 2: for the City of Cincinnati. But every election, I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you this is an Ohio Chief Elections officer. I
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  Speaker 2: know who's going to win today. The candidate who gets
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  Speaker 2: more supporters to come out and vote bottom line, every
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  Speaker 2: election is won by by whoever turns out to vote,
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  Speaker 2: and and today's your chance to do it. Don't miss it.
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  Speaker 2: Polls are open until seven thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight, so many reasons to get out. And Frank Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking about the they're endeavoring to come
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  Speaker 1: up with some compromise. A handful of representatives from to
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  Speaker 1: both parties in in DC trying to figure out to
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  Speaker 1: open the government dealing with these phased out income tax,
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  Speaker 1: enhanced premiums and all that. One of the proposals for compromise.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a reason I'm bringing this up to you,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, Frank LeRose requiring the Affordable Care Act
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  Speaker 1: marketplaces to confirm that recipients haven't died. Oh, what a
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  Speaker 1: profound compromise that is. I've shocked to even read that
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  Speaker 1: they had to discuss that as a compromise. This is
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  Speaker 1: part of your job making sure that dead people can't
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  Speaker 1: vote in Ohio. And last week you announced you found
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  Speaker 1: twelve are you referred twelve hundred criminal cases to the
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  Speaker 1: US Department of Justice for prosecution. Apparently we had non
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  Speaker 1: citizens actually voting in federal and state elections.
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  Speaker 2: And some of this goes back to before my administration.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen is as far back as we could look
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  Speaker 2: with limitations and that kind of thing. But we said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, listen, voter fraud is rare. Let's put that
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  Speaker 2: into perspective. First of all, with seven point eight million
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  Speaker 2: registered voters, millions of people voting in each election, it's
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  Speaker 2: a really good thing that we when we do our work,
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  Speaker 2: we find, you know, just over a thousand cases that
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  Speaker 2: need to be referred over the last seven years, right,
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  Speaker 2: and so we've referred those cases to the US Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice for suspected election fraud that occurs in those
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  Speaker 2: even number of years when there are federal elections on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. And yeah, these are cases where non citizens
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  Speaker 2: have attempted to register to vote, in some cases, because
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  Speaker 2: of human error at boards of elections or whatever, have
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  Speaker 2: actually been successful in registering to vote. A few cases
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  Speaker 2: where we caught people doing what's called multi state voting,
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  Speaker 2: where they vote in Ohio and in another state. And
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  Speaker 2: there need to be consequences for this, you know, the lessons. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's so rare, a Rose, why do you make such
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  Speaker 2: a big deal about this, Well, because it is a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. Carjackings are rare in my neighborhood, thank god.
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  Speaker 2: But when one happens, I want the criminal to be
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  Speaker 2: brought to justice from the case. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: like common sense kind of stuff. And so yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: working with the federal Department of Justice. We also, as
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, we remove dead people from the voter rules.
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  Speaker 2: We do it on a monthly bas This shouldn't be controversial.
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  Speaker 2: We get that list from the Ohio Department of Health,
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  Speaker 2: and the High Department of Health knows everybody who has
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  Speaker 2: passed away in the state of Ohio. The death record
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  Speaker 2: is generated where the person dies. But the reason why
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  Speaker 2: we needed federal data is because when somebody dies out
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  Speaker 2: of state or maybe even overseas, maybe they're visiting a
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  Speaker 2: friend or whatever else, we have a harder time getting
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  Speaker 2: that death record. And so now we're able to access
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  Speaker 2: federal data. I had to sue the Biden administration because
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  Speaker 2: they weren't going to give it to me. Thankfully, the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration has been happy to do that. And yet
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  Speaker 2: we removed that people every month from the voter rules.
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  Speaker 1: Another crazy reality of the Biden administration didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: share information so we could get rid of dead people.
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  Speaker 1: On the voter rolls. That is nefarious. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: has an out loud statement that they appreciate and embrace
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept of being able to well illegally vote well.
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  Speaker 2: And what's crazy is that the laws says that they're
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  Speaker 2: required to share that data. That's the funny part. So
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  Speaker 2: last year, when I got on the phone with somebody
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  Speaker 2: from the US Department of Homeland Security from the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: This person was hired there during the Obama administration. She
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  Speaker 2: said the quiet part out loud. She said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we used to allow election officials to use this information,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't trust that they're using it correctly, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you hate seeds out in flyover country. Don't know how
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  Speaker 2: this complicated federal data works, and we think you're going
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  Speaker 2: to misuse it, like come on, give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: And so thankfully we have access to that now and
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  Speaker 2: we are using it to make sure that only citizens
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  Speaker 2: are registered to vote, and only living people registered to
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  Speaker 2: vote in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Great concept. Secretary State Frank LeRose, is it the idea
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  Speaker 1: that once you land in Washington, DC, you're suddenly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: granted all these magical powers that we out here in
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  Speaker 1: fly Over Country just don't have It's all preposterous.
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  Speaker 2: The elitism. The elitism is a real thing. These people
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  Speaker 2: genuinely think that they're smarter than us, and and well,
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  Speaker 2: I think that we're learning they're not. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Bringing this full circle to the problem we have with
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  Speaker 1: crime locally, the idea of deterrence. We need strong judges
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  Speaker 1: to act as that deterrence. I applaud your efforts. As
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  Speaker 1: small as the numbers may be relative to the entire population,
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  Speaker 1: you have sent a strong message to those who might
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  Speaker 1: consider breaking the law. We will refer you to the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. So don't bother
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  Speaker 1: trying it in the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: There's a good saying out there, but I'll clean it
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  Speaker 2: up for radio, so you don't have to believe me.
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  Speaker 2: If you mess around, you will find out. And just
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  Speaker 2: what if you mess around with voter fraud in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: you will find out you will be prosecuted at either
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  Speaker 2: the local or state level, or we will refer you
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  Speaker 2: to the federal Department of Justice so that you will
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  Speaker 2: face justice for doing it. And in fact, in most
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  Speaker 2: cases it's a felony. So if you are a non
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  Speaker 2: citizen who attempts to register to vote and commits a
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  Speaker 2: felony that makes you subject to immediate deporte and so
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  Speaker 2: people should take this stuff seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Frank LeRose, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: spending time my listeners with me this morning, and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all the hard work you've done ensuring we are
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  Speaker 1: the gold standard here in the state of Ohio as
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  Speaker 1: far as election integrity goes. And thanks again for working
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  Speaker 1: with Corey Bowman. We really have high hopes for Corey,
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  Speaker 1: and I certainly appreciate your efforts working with him for
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  Speaker 1: a better Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: He Then, get out and vote. If you have an
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  Speaker 2: absentee ballot, you got to get to your Board of
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  Speaker 2: Elections by seven thirty tonight, and thank your poll workers
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  Speaker 2: when you get there. They're working hard for us.