>> This legal campaign from the Trump administration has had an effect that might end up making
10s of thousands of votes simply vanish. So let me give you an example of that. So a Pennsylvania
election official said Monday this week. That the state's recent ruling governing so called
naked ballots, mandating that any ballots that arrived without a proper envelope must
be discounted, could cause more than 100,000 mailing ballots to be rejected statewide and
could swing the presidential election because of Pennsylvania's key role as a swing state.
Okay, so what does this mean what is the naked ballot? So, in like two dozen states, you
cannot simply put your paper ballot in an envelope, seal it and send it it will be rejected.
You have to put the ballot in a secrecy envelope and then the secrecy envelope in another envelope
to make sure that it's harder for people to be able to look through the envelope and see
your information.
So that is an extra step, ostensibly designed to increase secrecy, but it's also a failure
state where people could be trying to vote. They could forget to do this because it's
complicated and why would you have to do that? And then your vote actually doesn't get counted.
And so you won't be surprised to find out that a court case was deciding whether those
ballots should be nullified in Pennsylvania, and both the Trump administration the National
Republican Party got involved.
And pushed for them to be nullified and they got what they wanted. And so 100,000 votes
overall, to give you an idea of how much it matters just in a very limited area. In a
letter to state legislative leaders Philadelphia elections chief Lisa Deeley calculated that
the ruling would likely result in 30 to 40,000 ballots being rejected just in Philadelphia.
Based on a 2019 election in which 6.4% of ballots were returned without the envelope.
So you're talking about just in one city 30 to 40,000 Americans, if this continues, we'll
have their votes vanish. 100,000 overall, in an election where Democrats are more likely
to vote by mail because Trump has scared his followers away from doing that.
To put that in perspective that 100,000 numbers, Trump won the state by 44,292 votes in 2016.
So this is why they are doing that legal campaign, because hypothetically, if you run the numbers
it by itself, could be enough to win him some of these states.
>> I am, I told you yesterday I watched The Handmaid's Tale and it just reminds me so
much.
And even though art imitating life, I know some people say that I'm being ridiculous,
but I can't stress to you enough how important it is to look at all of these intricacies,
right? It makes me wanna create like a task list to remind people to do this in Pennsylvania
like that we have to take the extra steps.
Because at this point, I mean, I'm not crazy about Joe Biden. I've never been a Biden,
flunky and that's what people are calling me a sellout. And I'm like, yeah, you don't
understand that what's at stake. And if for my people, people of color black people, Latinos,
marginalized people, gay people, trans people, if you think is bad now imagine being ran
by a dictator.
Who is siding with people who think that what we are and who we are is bad and less than.
It's like it is the lesser of two evils but it's not denying one evil but at this point,
listen to the things and I think the average person doesn't know this John what you're
saying right now they don't.
Because when Fox News is reporting, they don't report this to the the people of the great
state of Pennsylvania, because if they really were to uphold democracy and what the United
States stands for, and they really wanted to give out the news, then they would give
out all of the news, so that their listeners and their viewers to give up for informed
decisions about voting.
But they're not doing that because everybody is like rooting for a side, we've become the
red sox and the Yankees. >> Yeah
>> And that's all the distraction. We're so distracted by all of this dumb stuff, that
they're really working behind the scenes to snatch it all away from us and we just don't
even pay attention, we're not paying attention.
>> Exactly, it is already there are already so many obstacles. There's so many ways that
your vote is made less influential than it should be so many things like this. And Trump
has already, Trump and Republicans over the past few years have increased those. They
will continue to do that.
Anyway, that's one of the lessons that we try to get across to people anyway, if you're
in Pennsylvania or in one of these other states that require secrecy envelopes. Put these
secrecy envelope on if you want your vote to count and if you're in a state like Pennsylvania,
you definitely want it to because as of right now 538 projects that there's a 31% chance,
that Pennsylvania will be the state that is the tipping point for the election, that is
not nothing.
Okay, there's a very good chance that it might come down to Pennsylvania, which means we
can't afford to lose a single vote they were some of these states were so close already.
They're almost certainly gonna be closer artificially because of actions like this.