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Biden Immigration Policy Under Fire After Fatal Trucking Incident plus Trump Declares War on Mail-In Ballots · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: When you go into a voting place like you go
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  Speaker 1: they give you, give voter ID, you give all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of identification. I mean, it would be very hard to
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  Speaker 1: cheat in Amaska. When you send out minions like California,
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  Speaker 1: I think they send out thirty six million ballots. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have a voting booth in the whole place, And
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  Speaker 1: then minions of ballots come back. Nobody knows where they're
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  Speaker 1: coming from it.
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  Speaker 2: But what are you gonna do about it? The way
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  Speaker 2: you win.
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  Speaker 1: Is by swamping them.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Updating. We've got two big stories
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  Speaker 4: for you this morning. Donald Trump warned us that there
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  Speaker 4: were far too many illegal immigrants in this country and
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  Speaker 4: they were costing Americans or lives. We now know that
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  Speaker 4: an illegal alien truck driver was behind the fatal U
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  Speaker 4: turn that has gone viral, and he actually failed the
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  Speaker 4: English language tests and could only identify a single highway
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  Speaker 4: traffic sign.
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  Speaker 2: So how did he get his CDL.
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  Speaker 4: We'll tell you this pathetic story of leadership and how
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  Speaker 4: it involves Democrats in power. Plus, in a major move,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is now pledging to end mail in ballots
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  Speaker 4: and voting machines ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms
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  Speaker 4: through an executive order. Will this hold up or is
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  Speaker 2: Each and every day. It's a forty seven morning Update,
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  Speaker 2: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: An illegal truck driver behind a fatal U turn failed
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  Speaker 4: the English language tests we're now finding out. At mile
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  Speaker 4: marker one seventy on the Florida Turnpike, a semi truck
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  Speaker 4: driver executed an illegal U turn in an area designated
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  Speaker 4: quote official use only. It has caused a fatal collision
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  Speaker 4: and three fatalities in a Chrysler Town and Country Treay
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  Speaker 4: minivan were killed a thirty seven year old woman, a
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  Speaker 4: thirty year old man, and a fifty four year old
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  Speaker 4: man from Miami. The truck driver is, unfortunately where the
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  Speaker 4: tragic story begins, identified as a twenty eight year old
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  Speaker 4: Indian national living illegally in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: He entered the country in twenty eighteen, reportedly via Mexico,
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  Speaker 4: and was actually granted a work permit in June of
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty one after an earlier denial under the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 4: meaning Joe Biden allowed this to happen. We also are
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  Speaker 4: finding out more about the licensing details of the illegal immigrant.
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  Speaker 4: The man literally held a CDL, a commercial driver's license,
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  Speaker 4: something that is supposed to be hard to get, but
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't for this illegal immigrant because he went to
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  Speaker 4: a sanctuary state and it was issued by California, one
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  Speaker 4: of nineteen states plus DC that will actually grant cdl's
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  Speaker 4: regardless of immigration status. That is why we would refer
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  Speaker 4: to them as a sanctuary state. Federal testing after the
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  Speaker 4: crash revealed that the man failed to properly interpret basic
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  Speaker 4: English instructions and road signs. He answered only two of
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  Speaker 4: twelve English questions correctly and identified just one of ford
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  Speaker 4: traffic signs correctly. Legal charges are also going to take place,
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  Speaker 4: but the damage has already been done. The driver now
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  Speaker 4: faces three counts of vehicular homicide and immigration violations. An
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  Speaker 4: ICE detainer has been issued and federal authorities are requesting
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  Speaker 4: as transfer once state proceedings conclude. We also had these
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  Speaker 4: shocking video evidence that went viral. The dashcam footage from
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  Speaker 4: inside the truck capturing the illegal maneuver and ensuing crash
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  Speaker 4: had surfaced and circulated widely, also showing a man that
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  Speaker 4: really didn't seem to care much that he had just
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  Speaker 4: taken the lives three individuals. Now the legal and political
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  Speaker 4: fallout is even bigger. In Florida, each count of ike
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  Speaker 4: your Homicide can carry up to fifteen years, meaning the
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  Speaker 4: maximum of forty five years in prison if he is
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  Speaker 4: convicted on all three. Prosecutors also must prove recklessness and
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  Speaker 4: not just negligence to receive that sentence. Federal state crash
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  Speaker 4: is also another part of the problem here, also the
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  Speaker 4: question of federal and state and what's going to happen there.
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  Speaker 4: The Department of Homeland Security criticize California's licensing policies, calling
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  Speaker 4: it asinine, while California officials and legal experts countered that
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  Speaker 4: the man had quote a valid visa and work permit
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  Speaker 4: when he received his license, validating compliance with legal requirements,
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  Speaker 4: even though apparently couldn't even read the basic road signs.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's the bigger question how many more are
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  Speaker 4: out there on the roadways who have been given CDLs
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  Speaker 4: who can't speak English and don't know what the signs
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  Speaker 4: say on the roads they're driving with an eighteen wheeler.
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  Speaker 4: Public reaction is going to play a large part in this.
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  Speaker 4: The incident has sparked intense backlash, fueling political debate over
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  Speaker 4: sanctuary state policies and also these states that are permitting
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  Speaker 4: undocumented illegal immigrants to obtain CDLs. California Governor Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 4: is also facing particularly sharp criticism over the entire episode. So,
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  Speaker 4: if you look at it and step back, here's the takeaway.
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  Speaker 4: You have a semi truck driver who killed three Americans
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  Speaker 4: while making an illegal U turn in Florida, failed an
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  Speaker 4: English language proficiency test and also failed to accurately identify
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  Speaker 4: highway traffic signs. In the press release from the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Transportation, it was revealed that officials of the Federal
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  Speaker 4: Motor Carrier Safety Administration had launched an investigation into the
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  Speaker 4: deadly crash in Florida. During the interview with the driver,
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  Speaker 4: they are now saying publicly who has been identified investigators
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  Speaker 4: at MENA at a English language proficiency assessment, he failed
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  Speaker 4: the assessment and only provided quote correct answers to just
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  Speaker 4: two of twelve verbal questions. And again, as I mentioned earlier,
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  Speaker 4: the report now states he only accurately identified one of
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  Speaker 4: four highway traffic signs. It states that he had he
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  Speaker 4: followed the rules. This driver would have never been behind
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  Speaker 4: the wheel, and the three precious lives would still be
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  Speaker 4: with US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy saying in a statement,
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  Speaker 4: quote this crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by
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  Speaker 4: reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non enforcement and
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  Speaker 4: radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a
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  Speaker 4: lawless frontier, resulting, he says, in unqualified foreign drivers improperly
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  Speaker 4: acquiring licenses to operate forty ton vehicles. The press release
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  Speaker 4: from Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary, also revealed that on July
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  Speaker 4: the fifteenth of twenty twenty three, Washington State, we are
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  Speaker 4: now being told, issued the man a quote regular full
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  Speaker 4: term commercial driver's license, and then on July twenty third
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  Speaker 4: of twenty twenty four, the driver was issued a limited
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  Speaker 4: term slash CDL in California as well. So the federal
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  Speaker 4: investigators administering all of this, and they know that this
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  Speaker 4: guy can't speak English, doesn't know the signs, and then
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  Speaker 4: killed three people, and yet Democrats are still defending the
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  Speaker 4: practice of giving illegal immigrants CDL licenses to drive eighteen
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  Speaker 4: millers in America. There's no doubt that Sean Duffy and
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  Speaker 4: the Trump administration are gonna do everything they can to
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  Speaker 4: make sure this stops happening, especially in light.
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  Speaker 3: Of what we just witnessed now story number two.
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  Speaker 4: You may remember during the campaign, Donald Trump said that
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  Speaker 4: if you elected him, he was going to look into
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  Speaker 4: voter election integrity and he was wanting to get rid
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  Speaker 4: of mail in ballots. Now that has made the left
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  Speaker 4: lose their minds. Why, because we have now witnessed even
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  Speaker 4: recently local elected officials stuffing the ballot box. It happened
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  Speaker 4: to be the mailbox with mail in ballots that obviously
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  Speaker 4: were not from the people that they were setting them
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  Speaker 4: in on their behalf. Well, now Donald Trump has pledged
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  Speaker 4: to end mail in ballots and voting machines ahead of
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  Speaker 4: the twenty twenty six midterms, making big news with the announcement,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump announcing he intends to sign an executive order
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  Speaker 4: banning the use of mail in ballots and electronic voting
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  Speaker 4: machines in federal elections, setting the stage for a fierce
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  Speaker 4: political and legal battle ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Of the twenty twenty six midterms.
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  Speaker 4: Now, this move, Trump argued, is quote necessary to restore
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  Speaker 4: public confidence in American elections, which he says have been
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  Speaker 4: plagued by fraud, mismanagement, and manipulation since the rapid expansion
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  Speaker 4: of vote by mail and the widespread adoption of computerized
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  Speaker 4: voting systems. Quote, I am going to a movement to
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  Speaker 4: get rid of mail in ballots and also, while we're
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  Speaker 4: at it, highly inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines,
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  Speaker 4: Trump wrote in a true social post. Elections, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: the United States are primarily run by state governments, not Washington.
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  Speaker 4: Legal experts are noting that there could be a real
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  Speaker 4: problem and a fight, obviously, a fight that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: has no problem having, and that fight would be over
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  Speaker 4: constitution and who actually has the authority. Yes, the Constitution
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  Speaker 4: gives states the authority to administer elections, with Congress, not
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  Speaker 4: the President, holding limited power to quote regulate them. One
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  Speaker 4: liberal law professor at New York University put it this way,
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  Speaker 4: quote the president has no power constitutionally to dictate two
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  Speaker 4: states the manner in which they conduct national elections. Still,
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump in says that states act as agents of
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  Speaker 4: the federal government when conducting elections and therefore must follow
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  Speaker 4: the presidential direction. That claim is clearly a test that
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  Speaker 4: the it's more than happy to happen, and that's exactly
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  Speaker 4: why he's wanting to do the executive order. He obviously
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  Speaker 4: is planning on it going to court now. Conservative liberals
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  Speaker 4: have long raised alarms about electronic voting machines.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 4: Conservatives and liberals have been raising alarms about the electronic
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  Speaker 4: voting machines, which rely on proprietary software and digital tabulation
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  Speaker 4: of the votes. In fact, critics on both sides of
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  Speaker 4: the aisle have actually argued the same thing, that these machines,
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  Speaker 4: produced by a handful of private companies, are vulnerable to hacking,
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  Speaker 4: miss programming, or even deliberate tampering. Now, while election officials
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  Speaker 4: insist that voting machines are more accurate than handcounts, skeptics
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  Speaker 4: point to high profile erarors in passed elections, such as
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  Speaker 4: miss reported totals and technical breakdowns that left voters frustrated
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  Speaker 4: wondering if their votes were even counted. In fact, Democrats
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  Speaker 4: have been critical of electronic voting machines and ravit times
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  Speaker 4: raised significant concerns about their reliability and also security. A
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  Speaker 4: great example of this is in Georgia, leading Democrats criticize
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  Speaker 4: the state's decision to use dominion ballot marking devices, arguing
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  Speaker 4: they were vulnerable to tampering and lack the transparency of
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  Speaker 4: hand marked paper ballots. Lawsuits were filed seeking to block
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  Speaker 4: their use, with election security advocates pointing to risks of
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  Speaker 4: hacking and also just basic software flaws. In fact, the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty HBO documentary Killed Chain, the cyber War in
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  Speaker 4: America's elections highlighted potential vulnerabilities and computerized voting, featuring interviews
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  Speaker 4: with security experts who warned the machines could be manipulated
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  Speaker 4: and most shockingly, leave elections open to interference. Together, democratic lawmakers,
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  Speaker 4: advocacy groups, and investigative media have question whether technology base
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  Speaker 4: voting undermines public trust. Let me say that again, this
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  Speaker 4: is democratic law makers that have been doing this. They
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  Speaker 4: were also pressing for greater reliance on paper ballots and
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  Speaker 4: robust auditing. So why now would Democrats be against what
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  Speaker 4: they've been advocating for. It actually comes down to one
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  Speaker 4: simple issue. They hate Donald Trump, and they also don't
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  Speaker 4: want admit that maybe Donald Trump is right about a
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  Speaker 4: lot of this issue When it comes to election integrity,
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  Speaker 4: as to the president. He says he wants transparency. He
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  Speaker 4: wants hand counted paper ballots, even if it's slower, to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that our elections are meaningful, that people feel
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  Speaker 4: like their ballots are being casted and not canceled out
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  Speaker 4: by a hacker or a computer. Yes, it may even
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  Speaker 4: cost a little bit more money, but is it worth
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  Speaker 4: it to know that your vote counts. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: the President's saying and the legal fight he's wanting to have.
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