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Is The 2024 Election Poised To Be A Disaster? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Hans. I originally reached out to get you on the program because I saw
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  the story about the federal judge striking down parts of the election integrity laws in
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  Georgia and in Texas. First, just kind of give us an overview of
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  where we are nationally with regard to election integrity. If you were to grade
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  us nationally, what kind of grade would you give us, you know,
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  overall, maybe a B, a B plus. Perhaps The thing about elections
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  is it really depends on what state you're it. You know, you've got
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  states that are in just terrible condition New York, Nevada, California examples of
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  those where they don't do anything. I mean literally, they don't do anything
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  to try to ensure the integrity the election process. I mean, you don't
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  even need an ID show up and vote in places like New York and California.
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  On the other hand, and you've got leading states frankly like Florida,
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  Florida, Georgia, Texas and other states that have put in all kinds of
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  improved procedures and practices, and a lot of those, frankly, were spurred
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  by what happened in the twenty elections. So you know, if you're in
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  one of those states is mostly red states. I think you're gonna be much
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  better off when you vote next year if you're voting in California and New York.
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  You know, if anybody wants to steal election in particularly local election,
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  there pretty easy to do. Yeah, I was going to say. I
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  remember, in the wake of the controversy of twenty twenty, many of us
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  were making the argument that while Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Georgia and Michigan and Arizona
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  are autonomous in that they're separate states, the rest of us are really impacted
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  by what happens, and certainly the last three years of proven that to be
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  very very true. We've been dramatically impacted by the election of Joe Biden to
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  the Oval office. So how do we I mean, how do we read
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  that the states are kind of creating bulwarks to stop fraud? But what about
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  those other states? Well, you know, there's not a lot that could
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  be done about that other than through public pressure. Wisconsin actually has improved things
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  too, although they've been limited by the fact that, you know, they
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  have a Republican control legislature, but they have a democratic governor who attends to
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  veto actually good legislation. Pennsylvania has had the same issue Republican control legislature,
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  a Democratic governor who's constantly vetoing good legislation. But look, even in Pennsylvania
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  it has slightly improved there because, for example, one of things they actually
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  managed to get through the legislature was a ban on private funding of election offices,
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  you know, to try to prevent people like Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros
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  from once again giving money to local election officers try to manipulate election results.
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  Hans Votspokowsky with us from the Heritage Foundation, your sense of sensibility, communicator
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  of common sense amplified. It's the Morning Show with Preston Scotts talking about election
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  integrity. Kind of where we are in preparation to the twenty four election.
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  Hans Vospokovski with us with the Heritage Foundation, has what one state is the
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  most problematic that you're paying attention to that could really impact the national outcome.
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  Well, well, it's hard to choose. As you know, there was
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  a lot of controversy of what happened in Nevada in the twenty twenty election,
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  and Nevada is at the bottom of our scorecard, you know, the Heritage
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  Foundation two years ago launched a scorecard in which we actually measure each state how
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  good or how bad they are in terms of ensuring election integrity based on a
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  set of best practices we came up with. In Nevada is almost at the
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  bottom of the list, though that would be the state that I would certainly
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  be very concerned about when it comes to federal elections. Is there a case
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  to be made for federal legislation to address the inconsistencies? I mean, I
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  get federalism in the sense that states have autonomy and how they do certain things.
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  But doesn't Congress have some saying how federal elections are run. They do,
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  but it's limited, and if you think about it, it wouldn't Actually
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  would not be a good idea to give Congress sole control over federal elections,
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  because if they did, then you would get things like remember just a couple
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  of years ago, Democrats tried to get a bill called HR one through Congress.
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  It debated through the House. Unfortunately Penry McConnell was able to filibuster it
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  in the Senate. But HR one would have completely taken over running elections from
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  the states and it was. It was a terrible bill. I mean,
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  just to give you one example, that federal bill would have banned all voter
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  ID requirements across the country. What if what if it was something as simple
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  as we're going to use paper ballots and optical scanners so that we've got a
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  paper backup for every ballot cast. Well, again, I'm not sure the
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  Congress has the power to do that. Certainly with Constitutionally, the power the
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  power over elections is divided between the states and Congress. I mean, just
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  to give you one example. While Congress has constitutional authority over the time,
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  place, and manner of federal congressional elections, dates have one hundred percent authority
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  over determining who is eligible and qualified to vote in the federal election. Congress
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  Congress has no say over that, which is why I remember at the end
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  of the Vietnam War, when we lowered the voting age from twenty one to
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  eighteen, Congress at first they passed legislation to do it, and the court
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  said, well, you can't do that. The states have sole authority over
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  that. That's why we had to pass a constitutional amendment to lower the voting
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  age from twenty one to eighteen and presidential elections. Congress has has even less
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  power because why the only thing they could who is set the time when the
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  electors, so the electoral College meet, But how electors are chosen in state,
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  that's entirely up to the state legislatures. Final question, is there any
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  chance that all of these different trials that Donald Trump and his alleged co conspirators
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  are facing in different locations, is there a chance that this could actually backfire
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  on all these liberal prosecutors in that they're going to have to deal with the
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  many questions in these election results. Yeah. And in fact, I think
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  that folks are already speculating that Donald Trump's lawyers in Georgia will finally be able
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  to do that something that they had they weren't able to do in the courts,
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  because in the Georgia courts all the lawsuits they filed were dismissed based on
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  procedural ground. That they may be able to finally produce the evidence they said
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  they had of all the problems in Georgia. It's kind of one of those
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  if you're an illiberal, will be careful what you wish for. Huh,
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  Yes it is, Hans. Thanks for the time today. I appreciate it
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  very much, sir, thanks for having me Hans von Spakovski with us this
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  morning on the Morning Show with Preston Scott