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Primary Election Day · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: Well, like Scott said, like I said, it is election day.
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Speaker 1: It is primary election day. One thing I do want
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Speaker 1: to mention right off the bat is if you have
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Speaker 1: any trouble getting transportation to the polls, Metro Transit is
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Speaker 1: providing free fares for the Nebraska primary election day. And
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Speaker 1: whether you want to ride the buses, the Orbit or
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Speaker 1: MOBI services, if you use those today on May twelfth,
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Speaker 1: then anyone who is boarding those buses will not need
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Speaker 1: a fair on today. And if you go on Metro
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Speaker 1: Transit's web page, there is a link that you could
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Speaker 1: find a list of the Douglas County polling locations and
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Speaker 1: the Metro Transit bus routes that can get you there.
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Speaker 1: So we want to make sure that everybody can get
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Speaker 1: to the polls. That's very important. So many people told me, well,
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Speaker 1: I don't vote in the primary because I want to
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Speaker 1: wait to see who gets through. I just vote in
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Speaker 1: the general. And it's so important to vote in the
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Speaker 1: primary because you are helping to decide who gets through
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Speaker 1: to the general election in November. But you know what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about a little bit today, Peyton,
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Speaker 1: because not everybody is in the position that I am,
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Speaker 1: because I have been a candidate, and I want to
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about what election day is like
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Speaker 1: being a candidate. Now, I have been in nine different elections,
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Speaker 1: and when you consider the primary, that's eighteen times. I
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Speaker 1: have been on the ballot for the last twenty seven years.
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Speaker 1: And let me tell you what election day is like
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Speaker 1: when you are a candidate, because it no matter how
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Speaker 1: confident you are, it is nerve wracking.
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Speaker 2: Do you end up chewing down your fingernails.
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Speaker 1: And you end up like your stomach is churning. And
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Speaker 1: the thing I always told my team when I was running,
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Speaker 1: especially for mayor because that's the biggest election that I
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Speaker 1: have run for, is, you know, don't leave any stone unturned.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to get to election day and ever say, gosh,
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Speaker 1: I wish we would have done this. I wish we
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Speaker 1: would have sent another mailer out. I wish we would
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Speaker 1: have knocked on a few more doors. I wish we
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Speaker 1: would have gone to a few more events than a
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Speaker 1: few more debates. I never wanted to leave any doubt
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Speaker 1: in my mind that we didn't do everything we possibly
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Speaker 1: could do. And then on election day you really just
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Speaker 1: have to sit back and let the chips fall. But
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Speaker 1: if you're in a big race, like say the mayor's race.
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Speaker 1: We did do a lot of polling, and you do
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Speaker 1: my pollster. I use the same one for the last
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Speaker 1: four elections. He's out of Washington, d C. I think
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Speaker 1: he's the best and he was always right on the money.
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Speaker 1: So you really do kind of have an idea come
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Speaker 1: election day how you're going to do, how you're going
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Speaker 1: to how the election's going to come out. But then
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Speaker 1: you don't because it all depends a lot on the
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Speaker 1: election day and the voter turnout. Brian CRU's, former election
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Speaker 1: commissioner for ten last ten years, was on yesterday and
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Speaker 1: he said it's about fifty to fifty for those that
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Speaker 1: vote on election day as opposed to those that vote
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Speaker 1: with an early ballot. But still that fifty percent can
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Speaker 1: make or break an entire election. And I always go
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Speaker 1: back to my race in two thousand and six for
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Speaker 1: the Nebraska Legislature District twelve against Steve Lathrop. I lost
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Speaker 1: on a provisional ballot recount nine days after the election
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Speaker 1: by fourteen votes. So for people to say my vote
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Speaker 1: really doesn't count, it is not true. Everybody's vote counts,
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Speaker 1: and you know when that happened to me. You know
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Speaker 1: you're sitting there going wow, if I would have knocked on,
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Speaker 1: you know, fifty more doors or twenty more doors are
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Speaker 1: gone to one more event or did one more debate,
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Speaker 1: could have everything turned out different. But you know, I say,
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Speaker 1: you got to you gotta play the hand your dealt
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Speaker 1: and with a race, you are either going to win
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Speaker 1: or lose. There's no really second place. I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of candidates will say, well I came in second place.
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Speaker 1: You know three four years later, that doesn't matter. You win,
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Speaker 1: you lose, and you got to you got to move
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Speaker 1: on and you got to move forward. These races here
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Speaker 1: are important, They're very very you know, some of them
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Speaker 1: are content and I really want to hear what our
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Speaker 1: listeners thought about the interviews we did yesterday with the
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Speaker 1: Secretary of State. Usually that is not a real contentious rate.
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Speaker 1: But Bob Evanon is the incumbent. He was on yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Before that, Scott had Scott Peterson on, and then I
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Speaker 1: had the Douglas County Election commissioner. Because what is being
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Speaker 1: debated now is are our elections in Nebraska and in
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Speaker 1: Douglas County? Are they safe? Are they secure? Do have
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Speaker 1: we lost the people's trust, which I don't think we should.
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Speaker 1: I think they do a very good job. So I
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Speaker 1: want to hear what you feel like. And also the
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Speaker 1: voter ID, that is something Bob Evanon did by a
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Speaker 1: constitutional amendment. Do you support voter ID? Do you support
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Speaker 1: mail in ballots? Scott Peterson brought up you know it's
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Speaker 1: over a thirty day cycle of voting and campaign ads
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Speaker 1: and mail that comes to your house that you know
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Speaker 1: fills up your mailbox. Or should we just be voting
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Speaker 1: on election day? And do you believe that our elections
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Speaker 1: are safe and secure? You know when people say they're not,
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Speaker 1: they use the words like fraud or corruption. Scott Peterson
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Speaker 1: used the word corruption or corrupt. I believe in his
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Speaker 1: ad it does it. It's a real disservice I think
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Speaker 1: to the voters just think that these things are happening.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people will say, well, this all started
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Speaker 1: with the twenty twenty election with Donald Trump, when Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump said that he did not think it was fair.
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Speaker 1: It didn't start in twenty twenty. There's been questions about
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Speaker 1: voting and about are they safe and secure for many years.
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Speaker 1: I'll take you back to two thousand in Florida between
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Speaker 1: George W. And Al Gore and remember the hanging chads,
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Speaker 1: And you know al Gore did file a lawsuit. It
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Speaker 1: went to the Florida State Supreme Court, it went to
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Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court and over that election. So questions
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Speaker 1: about the secure of elections have been going on for
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Speaker 1: years and years and years. But I will agree that
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Speaker 1: what Mary Jane Trumper said this morning, who was head
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Speaker 1: of the state Republican Party. She was on Scott Vorhees show,
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Speaker 1: And if you miss that, one of the questions Scott
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Speaker 1: asked her was does the state party endorse and has
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Speaker 1: the state party endorsed either candidate for Secretary of State
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Speaker 1: or whoever? And she said it is our position to
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Speaker 1: stay neutral if there's multiple Republicans running for the same office.
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Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree with that. Of being a
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Speaker 1: candidate for many, many, many times, I'm going to take
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Speaker 1: it to the Douglas County Republican Party right now, the
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Speaker 1: Douglas County Republican Party. After me being mayor twelve years
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Speaker 1: and doing everything I said I was going to do,
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Speaker 1: including lowering the tax levy five times, making Omaha a
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Speaker 1: safer city. Economic development was booming in twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Forbes listed Omaha as a number one city in the
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Speaker 1: entire country to move to. That's a pretty good that's
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Speaker 1: a pretty good record you got there. They did not
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Speaker 1: endorse me. They endorsed Mike MacDonald, who was a lifetime
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Speaker 1: Democrat author of pension spiking. They didn't endorse me for
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Speaker 1: it this time. They didn't endorse Bob Evanon. They didn't
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Speaker 1: endorse Scott Peterson. And I ask why this morning to
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Speaker 1: their chair and she said, well, because Bob didn't ask,
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Speaker 1: you have to ask us, which concerned me, and I thought,
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Speaker 1: it's the Douglas County Republican Party's endorsement is not based
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Speaker 1: on your body of work, your focus, what your philosophy is,
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Speaker 1: what you want to achieve, why it drives you to
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Speaker 1: do what you're doing. That didn't matter. You had to
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Speaker 1: ask them, and consequently they did not endorse Pete Ricketts.
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Speaker 1: They did not endorse Sprinker Harding. So I mean, I
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Speaker 1: would prefer being a Republican and I would like to
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Speaker 1: know what our listeners think of it, that they would
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Speaker 1: just stay neutral and along with the state party, focus
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Speaker 1: on getting people out to vote rather than picking one
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Speaker 1: Republican over another.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of different things that we can talk
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Speaker 2: about today, and Pete has something on his mind. Pete,
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Speaker 2: you are alive here with Jean sta Author on news
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Speaker 2: radio eleven ten kfab.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Well, good morning, Jean. I hope you're doing well.
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Speaker 3: And finally, looking back on elections past. Hey, I went
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Speaker 3: and voted this morning, and yeah, I got the Republican
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Speaker 3: primary ballot, and I like to think him fairly well
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Speaker 3: plugged into politics, state, national, local. I do my best
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Speaker 3: to follow it. And I was shocked by the number
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Speaker 3: of candidates for United States Senate on my primary ballot,
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Speaker 3: and there were names on there. Again, I like to
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Speaker 3: think him fairly well plugged in. I keep in touch
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Speaker 3: with people that are with the DCRP state Party and such.
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Speaker 3: There were people on this ballot. I'd never heard their names,
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Speaker 3: I'd never read their names. I've already forgotten the name.
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Speaker 3: And I just wanted kind of your take on you know,
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Speaker 3: you were on a lot of ballots. What do you
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Speaker 3: think about people who run for something like United States Senate.
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Speaker 3: For crying out loud, they don't start with dog catcher.
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Speaker 3: They go straight to the United State Senate, knowing that
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Speaker 3: they're just throwing money into a fire and throwing time
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Speaker 3: into a fire. Like, what do you think their motivation is?
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Speaker 3: You know, why would you do that?
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Speaker 1: Yes? And you know, I'm glad you brought that up,
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Speaker 1: because I'm looking at a copy of a ballot right
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Speaker 1: now for United States Senate, the Republican ballot, and there
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Speaker 1: are five people on there now. Out of those five,
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Speaker 1: I would agree with you. I've only heard of one,
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Speaker 1: Pete Recketts, out of those five. And what happens is,
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Speaker 1: you know, normally I would say, for the majority of
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Speaker 1: a elections, you don't put your name on the ballot
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Speaker 1: unless you think you have a chance to win. I mean,
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Speaker 1: why would you do that? But there are some people
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Speaker 1: that do do that, and they do it to mix
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Speaker 1: it up, because by just putting your name on a ballot,
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Speaker 1: you are guaranteed some votes, and if they don't like
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Speaker 1: who the incumbent is are the person that is the
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Speaker 1: leader or the assumed leader, then they'll just throw their
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Speaker 1: name in there to try to mix it up a
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Speaker 1: little bit and see how many votes they get. But
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Speaker 1: of these five candidates that are on the ballot for
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Speaker 1: US Senator, I have not heard of the other four either,
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Speaker 1: nor have they spent any significant amount of money at all.
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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of these folks that do this.
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Speaker 1: Once again, they might spend a little money, but they're
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Speaker 1: not spending the amount of money for TV, for radio,
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Speaker 1: for direct mail that you really need to get your
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Speaker 1: positions out to get elected in that position, and so
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Speaker 1: they just like to mix it up. No, if you
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Speaker 1: call a name mort Sullivan, Mort Sullivan was renowned in
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Speaker 1: Omaha for years. He put his name on I think
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Speaker 1: every ballot you could possibly do. He had his name
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Speaker 1: on for mayor, for governor, for US centator, and he
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Speaker 1: would just do that to try to mix it up
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Speaker 1: a little bit and see how many votes he can
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Speaker 1: And they're not can get and they're really not serious candidates,
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Speaker 1: So I can't. I wouldn't say that these other four
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Speaker 1: that are on the ballot with Pete Ricketts do not
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Speaker 1: want the position or do not have some good ideas.
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Speaker 1: I just have never heard of them either. And I
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Speaker 1: try to stay pretty pretty connected with everything too. Same
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Speaker 1: goes for governor. I mean, if you look at the
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Speaker 1: governor's tickets, there's one, two, three, four, five, six on
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Speaker 1: for governor two and some of them I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: have heard of, and some of them, I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: have not, and so it's really interesting how people will
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Speaker 1: do this, but they they will do it. But I
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Speaker 1: would say for the majority of the time, it is
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Speaker 1: just it's serious candidates who come down to actually putting
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Speaker 1: their name on a ticket and doing the work they
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Speaker 1: need to do that really gives them a chance to
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Speaker 1: get elected.
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Speaker 2: This is an interesting question and we might have missed
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Speaker 2: it yesterday in reference to former Douglas County Election Commissioner
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Speaker 2: Brian Cruz, who he had on the show, and the
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Speaker 2: question is what do you do or have done in
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Speaker 2: the past to prevent ballot harvesting? And maybe you're not
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Speaker 2: going to have the textbook definition answer here, Gene, but
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Speaker 2: ballot harvesting. Is this something that you have felt like
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Speaker 2: has been a problem in the city of Omaha, or
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Speaker 2: they do a good job at preventing.
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Speaker 1: I think it is done. And what they wouldn't typically
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Speaker 1: what they mean that when they do ballot harvesting, and
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Speaker 1: this is a problem that you get with mail in ballots.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a real problem with mail in ballots.
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Speaker 2: When you say done, you're talking about the timeliness of
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Speaker 2: right now is today being election day.
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Speaker 1: Today is an election day. But what happens with ballot
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Speaker 1: harvesting is typically because you have mail in ballots is
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Speaker 1: you will get say a group that will go in,
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Speaker 1: say to a retirement home, and they will say, you
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Speaker 1: got your mail in ballot. And you know, as a candidate,
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Speaker 1: you know, I used to get the information from Douglas
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Speaker 1: County Election Commission every single day who applied for a
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Speaker 1: mail in ballot, and then we would send we called
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Speaker 1: a ballot chaser to those people that day that would
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Speaker 1: say basically, here I am vote for me, so you
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Speaker 1: can find out. You can find out who has applied,
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Speaker 1: so you could go into, say for a mail in ballot,
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Speaker 1: so you could go to say a retirement home, and
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Speaker 1: you could go to people and say, I want you
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Speaker 1: to vote for this candidate. Here can I help you
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Speaker 1: vote for this candidate. That's kind of what ballot harvesting does.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think that that is a correct thing
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Speaker 1: to do, because you are taking advantage of people that
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Speaker 1: have these mail in ballots, and that's basically what ballot
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Speaker 1: harvesting is described at you. I go back and forth
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Speaker 1: with the mail in ballots myself because I do think
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Speaker 1: that they are they're handy for a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: They give you and me the opportunity to study the
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Speaker 1: candidates a little bit better, especially when you have complicated
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Speaker 1: ballot issues like bond issues, and like the judges that
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Speaker 1: are on there. Usually people sometimes people vote any Meeni
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Speaker 1: Mini mo. And that's why you get these other people
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Speaker 1: that put their name on the ballot, like for US
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Speaker 1: senator for governor, and they will get a few votes
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Speaker 1: because people will go in and just go oh. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: I had people say I always vote for the first
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Speaker 1: one because I assume they are the most important on
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Speaker 1: a ballot. But every precinct mixes those up. The ballots
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Speaker 1: are not all printed the same, and so when I
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Speaker 1: was running for a mayor in one precinct, I might
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Speaker 1: be number one, and then another precinct I might be
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Speaker 1: number five. So order has nothing to do no, absolutely
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do it at all. They're mixed up
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Speaker 1: just for that reason to be fair and so but
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Speaker 1: a lot of people will go in and just say, ah, golly,
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Speaker 1: I've never heard of this person or that person. This
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Speaker 1: is number one or this is number two, you know.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I like the mail in ballots. And
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Speaker 1: plus when I was mayor. I always was afraid, because
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Speaker 1: I have a perfect voting record, that I would get
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Speaker 1: too busy and wouldn't get to the polls and then
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't vote. So I really wanted to do it
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Speaker 1: ahead of time. But you know, there are problems with
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Speaker 1: mail and ballots too, and so I think, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know what our listeners think about it.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was really important when Brian Cruz was
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Speaker 1: on yesterday though that served as election commissioner since twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: that he explained, for example, the drop boxes. I always
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Speaker 1: got questions about drop boxes. Do people steal the ballots?
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Speaker 1: Are they waiting there when they empty them to steal them?
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Speaker 1: There has been instances of fires, people putting in ballot boxes,
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Speaker 1: and you know, he described we have thirteen in Douglas County,
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Speaker 1: but they are monitored by camera twenty four hours a day,
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Speaker 1: and he says, you know, there's it takes two keys
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Speaker 1: to open them up. They do everything they possibly can
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Speaker 1: to guarantee the safety of those ballots.
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Speaker 2: For zero two, five, five, eight eleven ten is the
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Speaker 2: phone line. If you have any questions or concerns comments today,
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Speaker 2: comment at kfab dot com Brian Cruz said that it
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Speaker 2: takes two keys of opposing political parties in order to
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Speaker 2: open these drop boxes. And that's a common theme throughout
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Speaker 2: the counting of the ballots, is two people from opposing
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Speaker 2: parties to keep the accountability in check. Brian cru said,
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Speaker 2: thirty five days was the window for mail in voting?
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Speaker 2: Was that right, Gene Yes.
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Speaker 1: And the thing of it is is if you have
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Speaker 1: that mail in ballot, do not mail it today. If
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Speaker 1: you still have it, you cannot get there in time.
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Speaker 1: It won't get there in time. You could take it
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Speaker 1: to the drop box, or you could take it to
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Speaker 1: the election office, but don't put it in the mail
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Speaker 1: today because it won't get counted. And you know, we
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Speaker 1: even talked about provisional ballots yesterday too, so typically, golly,
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Speaker 1: when I ran in two thousand and six and lost
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Speaker 1: on that provisional ballot count, they had only been used
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Speaker 1: for like two election cycles before that. But those are people.
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Speaker 1: They want every opportunity possible for people to vote. So
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Speaker 1: those are if you go in to vote and you're
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Speaker 1: not on the voter rolls, they don't see you on there,
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Speaker 1: they go ahead and let you vote and then they
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Speaker 1: put your ballot in a sealed envelope, and there is
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Speaker 1: a certain day, I think it's nine days after the
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Speaker 1: election they open those up and they verify whether those
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Speaker 1: are truly citizens, and then they count the voter or
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Speaker 1: they don't count the vote.
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Speaker 2: This one comes from Mike in the kfab comment line
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Speaker 2: email inbox comment at kfab dot com. Gene, how many
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Speaker 2: dead people voted in Nebraska elections last year?
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Speaker 1: I don't know that number, I really don't, but there
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Speaker 1: are that that does happen, and I think that happens
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Speaker 1: all over the country. But that is something that you
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Speaker 1: don't obviously want to happen. You know, there's always a
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Speaker 1: few issues I will say in every election, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go ahead and give you an example of
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Speaker 1: something that happened to me because in that election for
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Speaker 1: the Legislature in two thousand and six, when my race
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Speaker 1: flipped on a provisional ballot count, I remembered there was
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Speaker 1: probably one hundred or so one hundred and twenty provisional ballots.
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Speaker 1: I hired an election attorney to help me because we
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Speaker 1: wanted to verify that every one of those provisional ballots
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Speaker 1: were real ballots and should have been counted, and there
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Speaker 1: was a little bit of I guess I would call
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Speaker 1: it fraud. I mean, there was a few ballots I
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Speaker 1: remembered that they gave the address of a parking lot,
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Speaker 1: or they gave the address of a car dealership and
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Speaker 1: those or they gave a fake address and those could
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Speaker 1: not be counted. And I think that happened in every
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Speaker 1: election if you are using provisional ballots. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's enough to swing an election. You know, there
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Speaker 1: was maybe out of the one hundred and twenty that
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Speaker 1: we had to count and verify, there was maybe three
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Speaker 1: or four that were not counted because they did not
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Speaker 1: have an accurate address or a legitimate address. So I
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Speaker 1: think those things do occasionally happen, but hopefully not often.
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Speaker 2: Jean Stauthard, I'm Peyton Hylock, and I got an email
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Speaker 2: for you here, Gene before we get to the phone
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Speaker 2: lines and Killian if I mispronouncing that, excuse me. Sorry,
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Speaker 2: we couldn't get connected on the phone line. But this
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Speaker 2: is in regards to Dan Osborne. I've seen recently over
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Speaker 2: the last few months that he keeps on having Facebook
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Speaker 2: ads saying that he's beating Pete Ricketts based upon pulling.
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Speaker 2: The first time, I thought about halfway through the article
19:56
Speaker 2: it says it's based on internal pulling. The second time
20:01
Speaker 2: was yesterday he saw that the polls showed that Dan
20:05
Speaker 2: Osborne was beating Pete Ricketts by three percentage points. And
20:08
Speaker 2: the email goes on to describe maybe some skewed polling.
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Speaker 1: This will give us a.
20:13
Speaker 2: Little bit of information.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is my opinion. But this is my
20:17
Speaker 1: opinion with experience too. And this is a campaign strategy
20:22
Speaker 1: that some candidates will use. And I'll give you and
20:25
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about Osborne, but I'll give you
20:27
Speaker 1: an example. Excuse me with me too. Mike McDonald did
20:31
Speaker 1: that in my race for mayor before the primary and
20:34
Speaker 1: put out this poll and said I'm ahead in the polls. Well,
20:38
Speaker 1: I will say my pollster was the best. And Mike
20:41
Speaker 1: McDonald was never ahead in the poll. Mike McDonald never
20:45
Speaker 1: got out of third place. And that's a campaign strategy
20:48
Speaker 1: to say, okay, I'm number one. Look, I'll show you
20:51
Speaker 1: this poll, which usually is skewed or it's some internal poll,
20:55
Speaker 1: and I'm ahead, So give me money and vote for me.
20:58
Speaker 1: And you know I'm ahead of everybody. And usually it's
21:02
Speaker 1: just a strategy. It's not true. I will tell you
21:04
Speaker 1: all of the polling that I did, and I spent
21:07
Speaker 1: lots and lots of money on polling for the four
21:10
Speaker 1: mayoral races. We never gave our polls out publicly. Ever.
21:15
Speaker 1: We wanted them to use them internally because I wanted
21:19
Speaker 1: to know where I'm at. I wanted to know where
21:22
Speaker 1: I was doing good, where I wasn't doing good. It
21:24
Speaker 1: was only for my own information, and we kept them
21:28
Speaker 1: all internal. Those that want to show polls and say, hey,
21:31
Speaker 1: look at me like Dan Osborne is doing, I'm ahead
21:33
Speaker 1: of Pete Ricketts, I would not. For anybody that is
21:37
Speaker 1: listening here and anybody interested in these races, I would
21:40
Speaker 1: not believe anybody who says, look at my poll on
21:43
Speaker 1: a head, I wouldn't do it because you cannot guarantee
21:47
Speaker 1: that those are accurate. If it's an internal poll, it
21:50
Speaker 1: might be with dan Osborne heavy on asking the Democrats
21:54
Speaker 1: instead of asking the Republicans. I mean, a good, honest,
21:58
Speaker 1: accurate poll is going to get the information you need,
22:01
Speaker 1: But why would you let it out in public? And
22:04
Speaker 1: you know my in the primary, I was I was
22:07
Speaker 1: number one in the primary. I knew that, and like
22:10
Speaker 1: I said, Mike McDonald was always number three. Mike McDonald's
22:14
Speaker 1: campaign should have been focused more on trying to come
22:17
Speaker 1: in number two, but he was. He was working in
22:20
Speaker 1: the primary like it was the general election, and he
22:23
Speaker 1: came in third. So I would say whatever Dan Osborne
22:26
Speaker 1: is saying, I would be leary of it, especially since
22:29
Speaker 1: he's using those publicly to say, look at me, I'm ahead.
22:33
Speaker 2: I want to make this relevant to yesterday, and you
22:37
Speaker 2: can find all of the podcasts, all of our episodes
22:41
Speaker 2: recorded on the kfab dot com podcast page or the
22:44
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. Yesterday, on Scott's show, Scott Peterson advocated for himself, saying, yes,
22:51
Speaker 2: things are looking great for me. You know, I'm gonna
22:55
Speaker 2: do great. I'm encouraged by the results. And then Bob
22:58
Speaker 2: Evnan came in on your sh and kind of said
23:01
Speaker 2: similar things. Neither of them talked directly about pulling numbers,
23:04
Speaker 2: but basically saying Bob Evnen said yeah, yeah, things are
23:07
Speaker 2: looking great for me too. When they say things like that,
23:10
Speaker 2: and I'm just using them as an example, all candidates
23:13
Speaker 2: do that to some degree. But is this them just
23:16
Speaker 2: sort of trying to get some positive morale around their campaign,
23:20
Speaker 2: around their voter base.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly what you do. I mean, you don't
23:23
Speaker 1: want a candidate that wants you to vote for him
23:25
Speaker 1: to come on and go, I'm really worried about me.
23:28
Speaker 1: I'm getting behind. You never do that, But I will
23:31
Speaker 1: tell you this, You got to be positive. You got
23:34
Speaker 1: to be positive about your campaign. I seriously doubt if
23:38
Speaker 1: for the Secretary of State they are doing any accurate,
23:41
Speaker 1: valid polling for him to say that. I mean, he's
23:44
Speaker 1: just trying to be positive about it. But I mean,
23:48
Speaker 1: the thing of it is is that you want to
23:51
Speaker 1: be positive. You want to move forward. You know, you
23:54
Speaker 1: want people to go out and vote for you. You don't
23:57
Speaker 1: want to say I'm behind, I'm worried about where I
23:59
Speaker 1: am right now. But internally with your campaign staff at least,
24:05
Speaker 1: what I did. I told my campaign staff, I said,
24:08
Speaker 1: always approach my campaign like we're ten points behind, because
24:13
Speaker 1: I said, you don't want to get too positive. You
24:16
Speaker 1: don't want to go out there in public and say, hey,
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm ahead, because if you say I'm ahead, people may say, well,
24:23
Speaker 1: you're going to win anyway, So why do I need
24:25
Speaker 1: to vote? And you know that happened to me in
24:28
Speaker 1: the last race too, because I had so many Republicans say, oh, shoot,
24:32
Speaker 1: you're going to win and they didn't vote, And I
24:34
Speaker 1: would say, no, you know, there is no guarantee in
24:37
Speaker 1: any race that you're going to win, no guarantee whatsoever.
24:41
Speaker 1: So election day does really count. But I would always
24:44
Speaker 1: tell my campaign staff, you approach this every single day
24:48
Speaker 1: like we're behind. We need to fight for this, and
24:50
Speaker 1: we need to do everything that we possibly can do,
24:53
Speaker 1: or people get apathetic and they don't go out and vote.
24:57
Speaker 1: One other thing I wanted to mention Rod. My friend
25:00
Speaker 1: Rod just sent me a text and corrected me because
25:03
Speaker 1: he helped me and work on my campaign in two
25:05
Speaker 1: thousand and six, and he said he thinks we actually
25:07
Speaker 1: found about seven or eight invalid addresses and those votes
25:13
Speaker 1: were counted. Also because the election commissioner at that time
25:16
Speaker 1: pulled the ballots out of the envelope and we couldn't
25:19
Speaker 1: determine which ballot belonged to which address. Now I hate
25:23
Speaker 1: to bash the prior election commissioner that was Dave Phipps,
25:28
Speaker 1: but this is accurate of what happened in my race.
25:31
Speaker 1: But again, those usually aren't enough to swing the race,
25:36
Speaker 1: and so that wasn't even enough for us to say, hey,
25:39
Speaker 1: I won that race.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you cutting to the phone lines. Now
25:42
Speaker 2: we have Bill You are live with Gene Stuth here
25:45
Speaker 2: on news radio eleven ten kfab.
25:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning, guys. I love this show. It's a
25:51
Speaker 4: great show. I listened almost daily.
25:53
Speaker 5: But I just wanted to comment on these ballot boxes.
25:56
Speaker 5: Twelve years ago, I moved from the area to Oregon Portland, Oregon,
26:01
Speaker 5: of all places.
26:03
Speaker 4: So when I got out there, obviously I registered as
26:06
Speaker 4: a Republican, loving it.
26:09
Speaker 5: But I did the ballot box on the election day
26:12
Speaker 5: and they had a box out there at the election office,
26:16
Speaker 5: and they had.
26:17
Speaker 4: Two I'm assuming they were officials with the Election Commission
26:23
Speaker 4: standing guard at the.
26:25
Speaker 5: At the ballot box.
26:26
Speaker 4: But the car in front of me, so you could
26:28
Speaker 4: drive up and hand them your ballot, or you could
26:31
Speaker 4: put it in yourself, but the car in front of
26:33
Speaker 4: me handed them a stack of ballots.
26:36
Speaker 5: And I just thought that was pretty unusual. You got
26:39
Speaker 5: any thoughts on that.
26:40
Speaker 1: If it was a stack, it could have been from
26:43
Speaker 1: what we were talking about before, it could have been
26:45
Speaker 1: from a retirement home or a nursing home or some
26:49
Speaker 1: sort of facility where multiple people that weren't able to
26:53
Speaker 1: get out and put their ballots in the box. That's
26:56
Speaker 1: what I would assume, And that's okay if that is
27:01
Speaker 1: a person that was doing that stack of ballots with
27:04
Speaker 1: somebody that say, ran a retirement home and he was
27:07
Speaker 1: doing it as a convenience for those that were in
27:09
Speaker 1: there that had their ballots and didn't turn them in
27:12
Speaker 1: yet to get them counted. That for that election, that
27:17
Speaker 1: to me would be okay, but it would raise a
27:20
Speaker 1: little bit of a red flag. I think if someone
27:23
Speaker 1: came in with a whole stack, it's like that makes
27:25
Speaker 1: you think harvesting ballots Again, where did these come from?
27:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a little bit weird, but who knows,
27:31
Speaker 2: maybe there were some credentials or there was some sort
27:33
Speaker 2: of yeah not no action already involved now.
27:36
Speaker 1: Knowing what those folks that were there, what they said
27:38
Speaker 1: to that person. But the drop boxes, again are all
27:42
Speaker 1: for convenience. You don't need a stamp. I mean literally,
27:46
Speaker 1: there are people that would say, I got a mail
27:48
Speaker 1: in ballot, but I don't have a stamp, so I'm
27:50
Speaker 1: not going to turn it in. You can't believe I
27:52
Speaker 1: wish I would have asked Brian this, because I know
27:54
Speaker 1: he has it on the tip of his tongue. How
27:56
Speaker 1: many mail in ballots go out that don't come back in.
28:00
Speaker 1: That's interesting and I wish we would have those numbers
28:02
Speaker 1: very quickly.
28:03
Speaker 2: If I were to request the mail in ballot but
28:06
Speaker 2: I didn't use it, could I still go to the
28:08
Speaker 2: polls on the day of.
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Speaker 1: You can go to the polls. Well, if you have
28:11
Speaker 1: a mail in ballot, you could bring that mail in
28:14
Speaker 1: ballot to the poll and turn it in that day.
28:17
Speaker 1: But you know, they do double check a lot of
28:19
Speaker 1: times when you go in to vote the day of
28:21
Speaker 1: the election. Some people have already voted, and so they
28:25
Speaker 1: do check that too to make sure you're not double
28:28
Speaker 1: voting there. So they do everything they possibly can to
28:32
Speaker 1: ensure safe and secure.
28:34
Speaker 2: This one, this one comes in the kfab comment line
28:38
Speaker 2: email inbox, and this one says we live in This
28:41
Speaker 2: is from Karen. Excuse me, we live in Knox County, Nebraska.
28:45
Speaker 2: Knox County is on the northern border of this state. Okay,
28:48
Speaker 2: we are a mail in only county. What happens if
28:52
Speaker 2: they take away this option?
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Speaker 1: Ooh, that's a good question. You know what I Knox County.
28:59
Speaker 1: That's a question that I don't have a good I
29:02
Speaker 1: can't provide a good answer for because I did not
29:04
Speaker 1: realize that there were counties that did only mail in ballots.
29:09
Speaker 1: Now there are. We've done mail and ballots only in
29:12
Speaker 1: Douglas County for bond issues in the past, and for
29:15
Speaker 1: special elections we have done mail in ballots too, or
29:19
Speaker 1: that is mail and only. But I didn't realize that
29:22
Speaker 1: there were actual counties in Nebraska that did not have
29:25
Speaker 1: polling places. So that is something I would have to
29:27
Speaker 1: probably do a little bit of research on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to see if I can find an
29:31
Speaker 2: answer to that on the Google machine. We'll find out here. Shortly,
29:34
Speaker 2: we're going to cut the phone mines again. Bonnie. You
29:37
Speaker 2: are live here on KFAB with Jean Stouth.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Hi, Jeene mayor Jean.
29:47
Speaker 7: My brother passed away about three years ago, and I
29:50
Speaker 7: just so.
29:51
Speaker 6: I called up the Election commission there's office and asked
29:56
Speaker 6: them if if my brother's name was Stella on the ballots,
30:00
Speaker 6: and they said, no, it's it's gone. So I'm just
30:04
Speaker 6: wondering if maybe when somebody dies in Jiggus County.
30:09
Speaker 7: The election, I mean, the corner maybe called election commissioner
30:16
Speaker 7: or maybe the funeral director calls, because I know they
30:21
Speaker 7: do call the Social Security Department and charm right and
30:27
Speaker 7: somebody passes.
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Speaker 4: And I do think I thought that was good news.
30:31
Speaker 1: Yes, it is good news, and thanks for sharing that,
30:33
Speaker 1: because it does show that they do have a process.
30:35
Speaker 1: What exactly that process is where they get that information,
30:40
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure I will tell you. I
30:43
Speaker 1: know my husband died in twenty twenty one and he
30:50
Speaker 1: was I mean, that was all over the news, so
30:52
Speaker 1: obviously that was that was pretty well known. But at
30:55
Speaker 1: the same time, I know the next election he was
30:58
Speaker 1: immediately removed, and so that happened too. I'm not sure
31:02
Speaker 1: how they get all of their information. That sure would
31:04
Speaker 1: be another good question for the election commissioner, But I
31:08
Speaker 1: don't think you see that problem that often of people
31:12
Speaker 1: still using ballots and voting of people who are no
31:15
Speaker 1: longer living.
31:17
Speaker 2: One more phone call here before we take a quick break.
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Speaker 1: This is PEG.
31:21
Speaker 2: You are live with Jean staff at here on news
31:23
Speaker 2: Radio eleven ten kfab Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
31:29
Speaker 8: I just wanted to make a correction of something that
31:32
Speaker 8: I just heard you say. I'm a poll worker and
31:37
Speaker 8: because we deal with this regularly. On election day, if
31:42
Speaker 8: they have a mail in ballot, they cannot bring it
31:45
Speaker 8: to their polling place. We cannot accept them there, okay.
31:50
Speaker 7: They have to take to the election commission.
31:53
Speaker 4: Or to a drop box okay.
31:56
Speaker 8: And if they have lost it, then they could do
32:00
Speaker 8: a provisional ballot at their polling place. But we cannot
32:05
Speaker 8: take their mail in ballot.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. So if you have your
32:10
Speaker 1: mail in ballot on election day and you haven't turned
32:13
Speaker 1: it in, you can put it in the drop box
32:16
Speaker 1: and they will collect those until the polls close, or
32:19
Speaker 1: you could drop it off at the election office. Correct, correct,
32:24
Speaker 1: and that, but you can't bring it to your polling
32:27
Speaker 1: place and your precinct.
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Speaker 8: No, we turn people away doing that all the time.
32:32
Speaker 1: But they can vote provisionally.
32:35
Speaker 8: Yes, if they've lost it and or say that they
32:39
Speaker 8: didn't get it, they filled out the card and didn't
32:43
Speaker 8: ever receive it, then they can do a provisional okay
32:45
Speaker 8: and that day.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that information. That that's very helpful.
32:50
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that.
32:52
Speaker 2: This is a press route. A media release from Bob
32:58
Speaker 2: Evanan's Secretary of State office from April of twenty twenty,
33:03
Speaker 2: so this could be slightly outdated, but just for a
33:07
Speaker 2: little bit of relevance, this is for the mail in
33:10
Speaker 2: only counties in the state of Nebraska. Okay, ballots will
33:15
Speaker 2: hit the inboxes the mail boxes of fifty one thousand
33:19
Speaker 2: voters in eleven Nebraska counties and select precincts. Secretary Evnin
33:25
Speaker 2: has approved certain counties with a population of less than
33:28
Speaker 2: ten thousand to vote by mail.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so they don't have polling places in
33:34
Speaker 1: eleven counties.
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Speaker 2: And like I said, this is twenty twenty. Could have
33:37
Speaker 2: changed in the last six years, but that's just kind
33:40
Speaker 2: of interesting, you know. Knox County was one of them
33:41
Speaker 2: that an emailer suggested. But the primary here on a
33:44
Speaker 2: May twelve. I'm gonna cut to the phone line, Gene.
33:46
Speaker 2: I know you have a lot that you'd like to
33:47
Speaker 2: talk about. I'm gonna get one more phone call in here. James.
33:50
Speaker 2: You are live on KFAB with Jean Stouthart.
33:53
Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning.
33:56
Speaker 9: Thank you guys for covering the election and answering questions
34:00
Speaker 9: that a lot of people have. I can tell you
34:02
Speaker 9: for sure since I worked in collections in California for
34:06
Speaker 9: over twenty years. Voter fraud is rampant, and a lot
34:09
Speaker 9: of the dead vote, and a lot of people who
34:12
Speaker 9: should have been off the rolls for other reasons, they're
34:14
Speaker 9: still voting regularly.
34:16
Speaker 5: That was also grew up in Illinois.
34:18
Speaker 9: So I'm glad to be back in the Midwest, in
34:20
Speaker 9: a more conservative area like Nebraska, where maybe the voter
34:25
Speaker 9: rules really are perched and the rules are followed. And
34:30
Speaker 9: thanks Jane for your part, and thank living your neighborhood.
34:33
Speaker 1: Well it's a good neighborhood, but thank you. Thank you
34:36
Speaker 1: for your call in too. And you know I grew
34:38
Speaker 1: up in Illinois. This is the fifth state I've lived in,
34:41
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you how happy I am to
34:44
Speaker 1: be here. One caller did call in too and say
34:48
Speaker 1: in some Dwayne called in and he said, in some
34:50
Speaker 1: of these smaller counties, the reason that they are doing
34:54
Speaker 1: mostly mail in ballots are all mail in is because
34:56
Speaker 1: they have a real hard time finding poll workers to work.
35:00
Speaker 1: So again, we are very lucky in Douglas County because
35:03
Speaker 1: Brian Cruz told us yesterday that we have so many
35:06
Speaker 1: some have been doing it for like fifty years and
35:09
Speaker 1: are so proud of it. I did ask Brian Cruz
35:13
Speaker 1: this question just a second ago about how many of
35:16
Speaker 1: those actual mail in ballots are mailed out that never
35:20
Speaker 1: come back in and are never counted, and he said
35:24
Speaker 1: it depends on the election. He said, normally about eighty
35:27
Speaker 1: five percent will be returned. He said for a presidential
35:32
Speaker 1: general nearly ninety nine percent are returned. So those that
35:37
Speaker 1: are mailed out from the Douglas County Election Commission and
35:40
Speaker 1: campaigns can find out that information. How many are mailed
35:43
Speaker 1: out every day. But that's interesting to me too.
35:45
Speaker 2: It's pretty high.
35:46
Speaker 1: I would say ninety nine percent for a presidential general
35:49
Speaker 1: election are return and eighty five percent he said, probably
35:53
Speaker 1: for this election. And so that's really good. Eighty five percent.
35:57
Speaker 2: That is good. And I guess you'd have to think
35:59
Speaker 2: if somebody is proactive enough to request a mail in ballot,
36:03
Speaker 2: they're going to follow through with it, right.
36:07
Speaker 1: You hope?
36:07
Speaker 6: Are? You know?
36:08
Speaker 1: Things happen they you know, there's illnesses, there's vacations. I've
36:12
Speaker 1: had people say, oh darn it, I went on vacation
36:14
Speaker 1: and forgot. But let me go back to just being
36:16
Speaker 1: a candidate on election day again. I mean, you there's
36:21
Speaker 1: campaigning one oh one is that on election day?
36:25
Speaker 8: You know?
36:25
Speaker 1: You take all your negative commercials down and it's like
36:29
Speaker 1: the bring it home positive. Let let people know have
36:32
Speaker 1: a good taste in their mouth about you, tell people
36:35
Speaker 1: what you want to do, why you're running. And I'll
36:37
Speaker 1: be darned if I wasn't had the TV on this
36:40
Speaker 1: morning while I was getting ready to come here, and
36:42
Speaker 1: there must have been ten Denise Powell commercials still, negative
36:47
Speaker 1: commercials still on the air. I will say this once
36:50
Speaker 1: again for somebody that has got the support that she
36:54
Speaker 1: apparently does. I've never heard of the woman, and she
36:59
Speaker 1: is still the commercials. You would think she has been
37:01
Speaker 1: the leader in this area for years, for decades, and
37:06
Speaker 1: now she's gonna single handedly take care of Washington d C.
37:10
Speaker 1: I would if I was, if I was helping Denise
37:12
Speaker 1: pal I would say, take those negative commercials down today
37:15
Speaker 1: and let people know what what you really want to do.
37:18
Speaker 1: But on that last day, I would even be out
37:20
Speaker 1: there doing sign brigades on corners, thinking maybe there's a
37:25
Speaker 1: few more votes you can get. And you know, there's
37:27
Speaker 1: nothing worse than a sign brigade because people they either
37:30
Speaker 1: give you a thumbs up or thumbs down. That's the routine.
37:33
Speaker 2: That's the only only fingers they use right.
37:35
Speaker 1: No, that's not the things they use it over. I
37:39
Speaker 1: had that happen a lot, and talk about demeaning. You're
37:42
Speaker 1: standing out there on a street corner and people are
37:44
Speaker 1: flipping you off an election day and you're like, oh
37:47
Speaker 1: my gosh, but that's kind of you know what you do.
37:50
Speaker 1: I even I remembered one morning on ninetieth and Dodge,
37:53
Speaker 1: right there on that busy intersection. We were out there
37:56
Speaker 1: at seven in the morning with a sign brigade and
37:58
Speaker 1: some guy kept on dry and around the block throwing
38:01
Speaker 1: eggs at me. He threw it was in twenty seventeen.
38:05
Speaker 1: I remember he threw raw eggs at me. So how
38:08
Speaker 1: pleasant is campaigning? Let me tell you. And we have
38:12
Speaker 1: Chris Baker looking in the window at us. He's peeking
38:14
Speaker 1: at us, Peyton, he just can't wait to come in
38:17
Speaker 1: here he is, Okay, Chris Baker is telling us chopping yes,
38:26
Speaker 1: So what Peyton do we have other?
38:27
Speaker 2: Well, just wrapping up the show here, Gene. Was there
38:30
Speaker 2: anything that you found yourself doing? You said nine ballots
38:33
Speaker 2: you've been on I guess eighteen if you count the
38:35
Speaker 2: general and the primary. Yes, is there anything that you
38:38
Speaker 2: did as far as the routine is there people you
38:40
Speaker 2: talked to. Did you you go get a massage, you
38:43
Speaker 2: go get your financial election day to relax.
38:46
Speaker 1: No, no, I was lucky to get a shower before
38:49
Speaker 1: the and wash my hair before before election night. I mean,
38:53
Speaker 1: we just kept on working. And you know the other
38:55
Speaker 1: thing we did is we called people that we knew.
39:00
Speaker 1: I mean, we would get a list of those who
39:01
Speaker 1: have voted in those who have not voted, and we
39:03
Speaker 1: would be in the campaign office all day long calling
39:06
Speaker 1: people say if you need you know, if you need
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Speaker 1: a ride, even to the polls. We would have people
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Speaker 1: in my office that would go pick people up and
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Speaker 1: take them. So just we did everything we possibly could
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Speaker 1: to make sure people were getting out in voting. I
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Speaker 1: have a question, and here he is.
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Speaker 10: Did you save your ballots and frame them and put
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Speaker 10: them on the wall. I would think that would be
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Speaker 10: something kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: Oh Heaven's no. Really, no, no, no we didn't. The
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Speaker 1: only thing that I really save that I still love
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Speaker 1: is the first time I ran In twenty thirteen. The
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Speaker 1: headline in the World Herald the day before the election
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Speaker 1: that was against Jim Subtle was this race will be
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Speaker 1: razor thin. That's the day before the election and the
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Speaker 1: day after the election it said Stothard by a mile.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 10: You frame those I framed that one. Now does that
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Speaker 10: hang here or at your house?
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Speaker 2: St? Louis?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, it's it's right, it's right here in Omaha.
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Speaker 1: Good lord. I can't even get away from this stuff
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Speaker 1: with you. Chris Baker. I'm going to send him an
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Speaker 1: email later on today. Okay, dear Chris, maybe you could
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Speaker 1: read it later on. I have a few things to
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Speaker 1: say to this guy.
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Speaker 2: That sounds funny. We got a minute here, Jeane. What
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Speaker 2: about the rest of the week and any final words
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Speaker 2: closing here on this primary election day?
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I.
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Speaker 1: Just again we've talked about how important it is, how
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Speaker 1: important primaries are, like, this is a day that's you.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're very anxious if you're a candidate. But
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Speaker 1: thank you for all you people who are candidates. It
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Speaker 1: is hard. It is a lot of work. You just
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Speaker 1: put yourself out there to be made fun of, ridiculed,
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Speaker 1: yelled at, praised everything else. It's hard. It's really hard
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Speaker 1: for the especially these big elections. So those candidate that
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Speaker 1: are on the ballot that are serious candidates, thank you.
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Speaker 1: For doing this. It's not easy and we appreciate it,
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Speaker 1: and I think that we can all be very very
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Speaker 1: grateful that we do have safe and secure elections. And
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Speaker 1: so we are done for today. Thank you all for
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Speaker 1: being with us, Thank you for spending this hour with us.
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Speaker 1: We'd love for you to join us again tomorrow and
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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about the election results. I am Jean
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