Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / Election Integrity Should Not Be Intimidation 10-27-26

Transcript

Election Integrity Should Not Be Intimidation 10-27-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, here at
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the One Leg Up Alex Media Center, it is a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: week away from Election Day, and as I've said, you
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: should get out and vote. How you vote, I'm not
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: going to persuade you. However, Bruce Blakeman has helped people
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: with disabilities in restoring the games for the physically challenged
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: every year. And I just... I feel like he's a
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: better candidate and a better fit. I think he went downstate,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: so we'll have to see. But yeah, I would say
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman is who you should vote for if you're
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: going to get out of the polls, as you should.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: And I really do believe the midterms cannot go to
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: the far left. That is very strong a feeling as that.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: But I want to say I found this AMNY story,
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: AM New York story titled Ballot Bullying. Now, sometimes I
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: do national, sometimes I do local. And there are reports
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: of door-to-door federal probes this election cycle, meaning, according to
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Dean Moses of AM New York, armed Homeland Security officers
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: have reportedly been knocking on doors across the country, questioning
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: residents about their immigration status as well as voter eligibility,
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: And there have been now accusations of voter intimidation and
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: fears among New Yorkers that similar tactics could soon reach
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: their neighborhoods. DHS says they're investigating voter fraud as the
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: midterms loom, stating on October 23rd, the federal agency has
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: said it cuffed 10 green card holders and one person
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: they describe as an illegal alien in North Carolina, as
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: well as California, by the way, and as citizens. and
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: casting ballots in the Tar Heel State during previous elections.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: DOJ also arrested a Syracuse woman in races for the
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: She voted in them illegally. And, look, I do want
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: voter integrity. I want election integrity. But I don't think
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: it comes banging on the door of somebody and scaring
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: the crap out of them. That is truly Gestapo tactics.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: That isn't American tactics. That isn't American at all. I
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: get pissed off when the IRS starts knocking on doors
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: and I'll get pissed off when the DHS knocks on
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: doors to try and see If voters are legal. It's simple.
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: It's simple. You do the ID check at the polls.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: And maybe DHS is doing this because there's no ID
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: check at the polls. Maybe that's what it's about. Now,
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: it is amazing that according to CBS News, less than
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: 200 people have been charged with voting fraud related offenses.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: That's one too many. That's actually 200 too many. AM
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: New York says less than, but I think 200 people
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: or less charged with voting fraud is still enough to
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: sway elections. You know, you could say 227 million voters
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: registered in America, but under 200, that's still enough to
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: sway elections, I believe. And it's not for voter integrity.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: And they say ice going door to door could be
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: a reality in the Big Apple. I mean, this is...
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: This is intimidation to not go to the polls. And
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: I don't like that either. I don't want to see
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: People dragged out of their homes to see if they
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: can vote or not. That is not how you do it.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: You instead focus on winning the midterm so that maybe
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: you have. Maybe you have. Laws in place through Congress
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: to ensure election integrity. Not. banging on doors saying, hey,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: are you legal to vote? We're going to check you
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: right now. And I would presume and hope that if
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: there is voter fraud, that it's picked up on. Now,
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: you look at New Jersey and you look at what
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: happened last year. There was what? 600,000 or so votes
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: that were not real votes. And Mikey Schauer had to
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: report that. But oh, by the way, she maintains being
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: governor over Jack Chiarelli. If you knew there was fraud
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: in that New Jersey governor election, I haven't talked about
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: this yet. But if you knew there was any fraud
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: in that New Jersey governor election, the integrity would be
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: to redo the election. Do it the right way. Those 600,000
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: votes could mean Jack Chiarelli is supposed to be governor
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: right now. nearly a year later. It could mean Mikey
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: Sherrill should have done a re-election, re-count, or whatever you
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: want to call it. Because maybe she's not supposed to
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: be governor right now. Just like maybe, unfortunately, there are
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: some that are going to get voted this year that
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: may not be the actual winners because of fraud. If
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: you want to check ID at the voter places, even
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: if you're DHS, even if you're ICE, that should be fine.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: But to knock on doors and intimidate legal voters, even
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: if they're suspected, but they find it legal, that's not
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: how you win elections. You want to intimidate your voting class,
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: then just call yourself authoritarian because that is not how
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: America runs. America is you freely get to go to
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: the polls and vote. America is you should be ID'd
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: at the polls at the same time to make sure
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: your vote is legal. But I am bothered by this story.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Co-director of Make the Road Action in New York, Daniel Coates,
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: told AM New York he believes these types of investigations
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: are not about ruling out criminal activity. but focused on
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: intimidation of the voter. He calls voter fraud a non-issue,
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: saying this new tactic is yet another desperate attempt to
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: use fear to suppress the vote in immigrant communities by
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: an administration bent on hanging on to power. Coats will
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: now say, with the midterm elections less than two weeks away,
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: we are connecting with voters across New York to ensure
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: they understand what's at stake know their rights, and have
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: the tools they need before they hit the polls. The
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: right to vote is sacred, and I'm not taking away
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: from that, Daniel. And our communities are ready to use
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: it and protect it. Jumaane Williams, public advocate, says he
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: expects more acts of intimidation on October 3rd as it
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: creeps closer. I'm not disagreeing with the left here. This
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: is intimidation. I'm not disagreeing that this is wrong. Because
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: who wants to live in a country where you're dragged
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: out of your house and then check to see if
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: you're legal? Who wants to live in a country that
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. That won't even ID you at the
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: polling place. To begin with. There's that too. I want
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: to live in a country where all our votes are
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: counted legally. Okay I do. I want voter integrity as
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: badly as anybody. But knocking on people's doors. Pulling them
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: out of their homes. Is not the answer to this issue.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: It's not. If I'm the GOP. Amidst a crazy election
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: cycle right now, you focus on getting the votes cast,
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: encouraging people to go out and vote, vote red, and
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: overcome the blue wave. Not knock on doors saying, hey,
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: are you legal? That's bad. That's bad. And you know
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: why I say that? Because also the immigrant community might
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: actually vote Republicans. There is a rising population that is
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: voting Republican turnout after turnout after turnout after turnout. Because
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: they see how bad the left is getting. So now
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: you're going to intimidate those immigrants from voting, which they
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: might actually vote for you because they've come from countries
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: of suppression and oppression. And they've come from socialist countries
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: and communist countries. They came here to avoid this bull crap.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: They came here to avoid this bull crap. To literally say.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: We are Americans. Or we want to live in America now.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: And whatever they did already. I'm sure the DHS has
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: right to do. But to do it. door to door
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: knocking on doors like this asking about immigration status and
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: voter eligibility that's not the American way you do things
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: Trump administration DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullins that's not how
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: you do things you investigate First, with the intel you have,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: and then you make the arrest. That's what you're going
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: to do. You can't knock on doors. That's about as
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: when they're petitioning for your vote, and you have the
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: people knocking on doors for petition votes and signing petitions.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: So this tactic, this strategy has to change a week
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: out from the midterms, November 3rd, go to the polls,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: I would say, and look, I'm all for law enforcement,
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: but this kind of law enforcement, I'm against. I would
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: ask for a warrant. Do they have the right to
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: search the person's immigration history or legal history? That's what
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: I would do. That's the fair thing to do. Not
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: beat up an ICE officer or a DHS officer because
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: they are law enforcement. And you should not ever attack
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: a police officer of any stripe. But you should ask them,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: do you have a warrant to check my eligibility? And
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: if they don't, politely say, no. We want to rid
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: voter fraud. I absolutely agree. But knocking on doors, intimidating...
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: In an election year, you might actually get the immigrant vote,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: as I said a couple minutes ago. That's the way
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: you go. You don't go this tactical route. That does
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: remind me of the Gestapo. Because that's not American. And
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: that will knock it out, the vote. And that will
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: really accelerate the far left's control of the Senate and
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: the House if these tactics keep going on. Because you'll
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: deter the vote. We want to bring out the vote
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: and stop the madness that's about to hit our Capitol.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Not bring it on. Not bring it on. And that's
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: my message at One Leg Up Alex Media.