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The Attempt, Vice-Presidential Choice, and Voting · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Morning France. Third Hour The Morning Show with Crustin Scott five passed the hour.
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  It is show fifty one ninety six Producer to be named tomorrow seven oh
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  five, the introduction of the producer to be named later and Jared here alongside
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  Great to be with you. Third Hour. Doctor Bob McClure joins US President
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  of the James Madison Institute. Doctor McClure, how are you, sir?
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  Doing great? Preston? How are you? I'm doing well, obviously,
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  you know we're all still sitting trying to figure out what in the world happened.
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  Bob. When you caught wind of what took place Saturday, what was
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  your immediate reaction? And then what is it now? A couple of days
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  later, you know, Preston, we were my wife and I were just
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  kind of out running errands and came back to the house. So we were
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  probably ten minutes after it happened, and I was looking at the TV and
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  I said, honey, you're not You're not going to believe what just happened.
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  But Donald Trump's been shot. And at that moment, Preston, we
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  didn't know if he was dead or not. He was still on the ground
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  and so it was. It was horrible for this country. I had tremendous
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  fear for what might happen afterwards, because at that moment, I thought he
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  might be dead. And then the man stood up and we heard, you
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  know, let me get my shoes, Let me get my shoes. And
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  then he fifth pumped everybody. And I mean, you don't have to love
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  the guy, but I got choked up. I mean I got choked up
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  for this country when he did that, and it was it was an unbelievable
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  moment that will be etched in everybody's history. They will know where they were
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  when this happened. Today. You know what I find ironic, there's no
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  writing in the streets by this horrible right wing conspiracy. There's nobody chanting,
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  you know, death to the cops or or or you know, there's nobody
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  burning buildings. It's the main thing. You know. We're the right,
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  the conservatives, and look Trump is not you know, he's not the perfect
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  conservative, but as an organization that believes in founding principles in smaller government,
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  and we're always accused of somehow being you know, uh, we're the ones
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  who are the threat to democracy. I haven't seen any rights yet. I
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  haven't seen any killings yet. I haven't seen any burnings yet. Maybe you
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  have Nope, No, But what I have seen, doctor McClure, is
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  the inadequacy of the detail and the advanced protection for President Trump on Saturday has
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  opened the door to a lot of questions. And I think that a lot
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  of us are getting to where we're asking the question not so much was this
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  any kind of conspiracy to kill Trump? But was this allowed? Because there's
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  just there are too many protocols that were broken. No, you're right,
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  And the irony of it is Joe Biden in his press conference says, Oh,
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  I've got the FBI, the dj the ATF, the ABC, the
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  XYZ. You know, we're on top of this and we will get to
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  the bottom of it. Really, does anyone really believe trust that that's going
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  to happen, given what happened with the misinformation with COVID, given what we've
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  seen from this administration. I mean, it's ironic that a man who's been
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  in DC for fifty plus years, who's never had a real job, who
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  doesn't understand how the private sector works, is saying, oh, we'll take
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  care of it in Washington and of course they do. They have to because
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  obviously that's what happened. But I agree with you there was a breach.
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  There was a stunning miscalculation something, and you know, I'm glad to see
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  Speaker Johnson who has really emerged. Preston I think is a real leader of
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  conservatism in ways I underestimated. I really liked Speaker Johnson. I believe they're
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  going to get to the bottom of it, and I hope they do and
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  quickly. You are listening to the mad Radio Network, where you're challenged to
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  make a difference each and every day. Good morning, and welcome to the
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  Morning Show with Preston Scott. Doctor Bob McClure, President of the James Manison
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  James Madison Institute. I can say that with me this morning on the Morning
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  Show, Doctor McClure, I mentioned that if jd Vance is on a debate
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  stage with Kamala Harris, that that's going to be a first round knockout.
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  It reminded me of when Marco Rubio got on the stage with Charlie crist I
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  felt like the moment that happened, that race was over. I feel similarly
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  though we vote as a ticket obviously but your thoughts on the pick. You
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  know, I think Donald Trump went with He didn't go with the de I
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  pick, did he Preston? He went with somebody he's comfortable with. He
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  went with somebody who's incredibly accomplished. He you know, uh, former military
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  marine, fought in Afghanistan, in business, you know, accomplished author.
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  The list goes on, and his life story is just incredible, with hillbilly
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  elgy and and and being raised by his grandmother and those kinds of things.
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  He's incredibly articulate. You're absolutely right that debate is going to be it'll be
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  over before it starts. And I mean, you know, the cards that
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  she will play will be the same cards they always play when they can't compete
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  on the issues of policy. But really, look, if you look at
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  the electoral map, George is coming off the map, Arizona's coming off the
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  map, and then really Trump needs to find one more I mean, assuming
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  he wins everything he won last time, which he is. Right now,
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  if Georgia comes off the map and Arizona comes off the bat, not Nevada,
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  he needs Nevada will come off the map too, but he needs more
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  than six electoral votes. He's just got to find one of Michigan, Pennsylvania,
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  Wisconsin, Virginia, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and it's over. And
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  so I think Jeddie Vance's not only is it the American dreamer at large his
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  life, but it's going to appeal to those working class Americans in many of
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  those Midwestern states who want their shot at the American dream. And that's what
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  Donald Trump is promising. You know, Justin Haskins of the Heartland Institute joined
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  us earlier in I think it was last week, and he mentioned that,
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  you know, the electoral map is actually gone in favor of Trump even before
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  we have any actual voting because of the apportionment of electoral votes due to population,
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  and so that even heading in, he's closer than he would have been
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  otherwise. That's exactly right. I mean, if Donald Trump wins every state,
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  as I said that he won last time, he wins George in Arizona,
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  he's just got to find a combination of eight or nine more votes,
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  I can't remember the exact number, and he's there. So it's one Wisconsin.
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  I mean, if he went Pennsylvania, it's over a combination Nevada,
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  New Hampshire, or something like that. And what you see is the map
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  is expanding for Donald Trump, not contracting, and it's contracting for Joe Biden.
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  And so you're right, and I think you're going to continue to see
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  the census grow, the date. The value freedom. We've seen that.
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  You know, we've all heard the term live free or die. Americans are
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  choosing to live for your move and it's we're seeing it. That's the great
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  unfold conversation. That's a great untold story of this nation. Thousand people moving
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  here today and they're moving the states. The value capital, freedom, opportunity,
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  life, school, choice, preston those kinds of things. That's just
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  going to continue to move in that direction. And it doesn't matter what your
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  demographic is. You want your shot at the American dream to you know what
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  you need to You need to raise a little money for JMI. I mean
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  you can always use a few bucks, right, raise raise get a T
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  shirt done with the state of Florida and put that slogan on there, live
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  free or Move. Yeah, you'll sell some shirts, my friend, and
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  I'll help you. I'll help you sell those shirts, all right. I'll
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  give you a finder's fee. No, I don't want any finder's fee.
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  I want all all of that money going to JMI, Doctor Bob McClure with
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  me stand by doctor McClure when we come back voting. You know, we
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  were just talking about the electoral map, will to get to the electoral votes
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  you got to vote? And where are we in that Florida? Certainly,
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  how fun is it that that, twenty four years after the debacle of two
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  thousand, Florida is like one of the paragons of voting integrity WFLA at WFLA,
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  fam dot com on your phone with the iHeartRadio app and on hundreds of
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  devices like Alexa, Google Home, Xbox, and Sono Seniheart's radio station.
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  Twenty one past doctor Bob McClure, President JMI better known as James Madison Institute,
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  Doctor McClure. Florida and its election processes pretty much right now, button
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  down, don't you think, Oh yeah, very much. So. You
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  know, we come off the debacle of bushby Gore, but then we had
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  essentially eight years of Rick Scott in another now six years of Governor DeSantis,
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  and we have every form of voting in Florida. We have mail in,
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  we have you know, limited drop box you can drop off, you know
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  your you know a few you have in person. And in a state like
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  Florida with twenty two million, twenty three million people, a thousand people moving
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  here today, two time zones, we know who wins every race. By
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  midnight it's over uh. And there are several reasons for that one. And
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  these are no particular order pressing. But we obviously have cleaned up the roles
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  so there are fewer and fewer dead people wrong people who are not on the
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  rolls any more. My daughter lived in Atlanta and she was in a rental
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  house and one election year she got six different ballots from six different names of
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  people who had lived in that rental house previously. It's in Atlanta. Now,
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  I think Brian kIPS cleaned that up. We don't have that problem here
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  in Florida. It's not perfect, but we've cleaned it up. The other
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  thing is that you can track. There are guard rails on you know,
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  on what you can and can't do. You're signing an affidavit, there's signature
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  verification, there's ID required, and then they count the votes preston as they
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  come in. You can look on Twitter and every day it'll say thirty thousand
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  Republicans voted, twenty thousand Democrats, ten thousand no party affiliations. Now you
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  don't know how they voted, but they're counted ahead of time, and so
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  Florida has become the actual paragon of all forms of voting. Sure, would
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  we like to go back to one day voting paper ballots. Yes, don't
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  think that's going to happen in our lifetimes. It just don't think it will.
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  But there are ways to do it correctly. And I'm really glad.
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  I'm really glad. I say one more thing that and I heard this last
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  night. Elon Musk and a group of billionaires I don't know if you heard
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  this, have donated forty five million dollars a month between now an election day
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  to build out the Republican apparatus for ballot boxes in certain states, for early
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  voting, for poll watching, for all of these things that the Democrats know
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  how to do, and Republicans have not done very well. They've been way
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  behind the curve for years. Forty five million dollars a month just for those
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  kinds of resources, and I think that's going to make a big difference.
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  Because last thing, John Feederman was up three hundred and fifty thousand votes on
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  election day when Oz, who's not a very good candidate, when when he
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  took on OZ three hundred and fifty thousand votes. You can't you can't allow
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  that to happen and expect to win an election. The story I'm looking at
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  shows that Musk is going to donate forty five million per month to the pack
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  himself, and just yeah, I mean, I guess if you've got the
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  spare change laying around, I suppose that's a good thing. Tell me this,
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  doctor mccluur, is there any area that Florida needs to tighten down?
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  In other words, you know, here in Leon County where where we call
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  home. I've always thought that the optical scanner that allows for a paper ballot
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  backup is the perfect way to vote. Is that done uniformly across the state.
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  Is that what we've adopted or there are there's still improvements to be made.
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  No, there are improvements to be made. Not every county does that.
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  You know, you and you know I thought Ion Sancho was kind of
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  at the forefront, one of the early, our early supervisor of elections of
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  this kind of technology and this kind of thing. I think you're right.
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  Not every county does it. There are counties I think, if I remember
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  correctly browered and a couple of others that do not U but we we have
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  and it's kind of this the the eternal vigilance, uh you know statement,
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  we have to stay eternally vigil vigilant on these things. It it'd be great
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  to go to this on a uniform basis, but we're not uniformed. Different
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  counties have different ways of doing these things, and I can't recall everyone in
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  every county, but they're not uniform. Is that something that the legislature,
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  in your opinion, should look at making uniform across the state? Yes,
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  I absolutely do, and I think they should look continue to look at things
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  every every session because technology changes and U people come and go and all of
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  those kinds of things. So this should be an annual event to analyze election
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  integrity, cyber hacking, those kinds of things are going to continue AI down
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  the road. Where will that take us? So yeah, they should look
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  not only at the basic ability to vote, to your point, but then
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  also so much more that can affect our system. Good stuff. As always,
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  doctor McClure, thanks for the time. I look forward to our visit
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  next month. Thank you, my friend, thanks for having me. Yes,
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  Sir, Doctor Bob McClure with US President James Madison Institute, twenty seven
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  minutes past the hour