>>> I DO WANT TO SEE A DATE
CHANGE?
NO.
BUT I DON’T WANT TO SEE A
CROOKED ELECTION.
THIS ELECTION WILL BE THE MOST
RIGGED ELECTION IN HISTORY, IF
THAT HAPPENS.
>> COMMANDER OF CONSPIRACIES
LAGGING IN THE LATEST POLLS WITH
ECONOMIC DATA SHOWING THE WORST
GDP NUMBERS SINCE THE GREAT
DEPRESSION AND THE CORONAVIRUS
RAGING IN MANY PARTS OF THE
COUNTRY, PRESIDENT TRUMP IS
BAITING THE MEDIA AND THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH HIS LATEST
DISTRACTION TRYING TO MANIPULATE
AND TURN ATTENTION AWAY FROM HIS
MOST RECENT FAILURES AND PUT
DOUBT ON AN ELECTION NIGHT
OUTCOME THAT LIKELY HAS HIM ON
THE WRONG SIDE OF POLITICAL
HISTORY.
TWEETING WITH UNIVERSAL MAIL-IN
VOTING, NOT ABSENTEE VOTING,
WHICH IS GOOD, 2020 WILL BE THE
MOST INACCURATE AND FRAUDULENT
ELECTION IN HISTORY.
WILL BE A GREAT EMBARRASS MEANT
TO THE U.S.
DELAY THE ELECTION UNTIL PEOPLE
CAN SECURELY VOTE.
QUESTION MARK, QUESTION MARK,
QUESTION MARK.
IT WAS MET WITH SWIFT RESPONSE
FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE
FROM EXPERTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL
SCHOLARS FROM ACROSS THE
SPECTRUM OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
IN A "NEW YORK TIMES" OP-ED, THE
COFOUNDER OF THE FEDERALIST
SOCIETY WROTE THIS WOULD BE
UNCONTUSIONAL SAYING IT’S
FASCISTIC AND IT’S SELF-GROUNDS
BY THE IMPEACH AGAIN BY THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND HIS
REMOVAL FROM THE OFFICE OF THE
SENATE.
THIS IS THE COFOUNDER OF THE
FEDERALIST SOCIETY.
THERE’S NO SPACE BETWEEN THE
FEDERALIST SOCIETY THIS
ADMINISTRATION, GENERALLY.
TRUMP IS ALSO TWEETING MUST KNOW
ELECTION RESULTS ON THE NIGHT OF
THE ELECTION, NOT DAYS, MONTHS,
OR EVEN YEARS LATER.
EVEN YEARS LATER.
THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IF
YOU ALL VOTE BY MAIL, WE’RE NOT
GOING TO GET THE RESULTS FOR
YEARS.
TRUMP’S TERM IS GOING TO END AT
NOON ON JANUARY 20th, 2020 IF HE
DOESN’T GET RE-ELECTED.
THAT’S THE END OF IT.
THERE’S NO OTHER WAY AROUND
THAT.
THAT’S WHAT THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES SAYS.
TRUMP’S ZEROING IN ON MAIL
VOTING IS A PARTICULAR CAUSE OF
CONCERN DURING THE PANDEMIC
WHILE MOST EXPERTS SAY THAT
LARGE NUMBERS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS
MIGHT RESULT IN SOME DELAY, THE
PROCESS MIGHT TAKE A FEW WEEKS.
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES OP-ED
WRITING THAT IT COULD BE LESS
SUCCESSFUL IF CONGRESS AND THE
STATES TOOK STEPS TO REDUCE THE
DELAY IN COUNTING ABSENTEE AND
OTHER BALLOTS.
GOVERNOR GNU SOME
GOVERNOR NEWSOME ASSIGNED PEOPLE
TO COUNT BALLOTS DAYS BEFORE THE
ELECTION.
OTHER STATES SENT MAIL-IN
BALLOTS TO EVERY VOTER.
29 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C.
OFFER SOMETHING CALLED NO EXCUSE
ABSENTEE VOTING ALLOWING EVERY
VOTER TO REQUEST A MAIL-IN
BALLOT.
NO REASON REQUIRED.
16 STATES REQUIRE A REASON TO
NOT CAST A BALLOT IN PERSON.
EIGHT STATES SAY THAT FEVER
GETTING CORONAVIRUS WOULDN’T
QUALIFY AS A REASON TO GET AN
ABSENTEE BALLOT.
NEARLY 1 IN 4 VOTERS CAST 2016
PRESIDENTIAL BALLOTS THROUGH
VOTE BY MAIL.
ROUTINE METHODS AND THE
DECENTRALIZED NATURE OF U.S.
ELECTIONS MAKE IT HARD TO
INTERFERE WITH MAIL BALLOTS.
A STUDY FOUND THAT IN 2016, MORE
THAN 135 MILLION VOTES WERE
CAST.
THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 4
DOCUMENTED CASES OF FRAUD, FOUR,
NOT 40, NOT 400, NOT 4,000, NOT
40,000.
4.
THE ISSUE AND IMPORTANCE OF
VOTER PARTICIPATION WAS A 90
PRESIDENT OBAMA DROVE HOME WHEN
SPEAKING AT THE EULOGY OF
CONGRESSMAN LEWIS IN BAM. >> THERE ARE THOSE IN POWER WHO
>> THERE ARE THOSE IN POWER WHO
ARE DOING THEIR DARNEDEST BY
ATTACK OUR VOTING RIGHTS WITH
SURGICAL PRECISION, EVEN
UNDERMINING THE POSTAL SERVICE
IN THE RUN-UP TO AN ELECTION
THAT’S GOING TO BE DEPENDENT ON
MAIL-IN BALLOTS SO PEOPLE DON’T
GET SICK.
>> ALL RIGHT.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS,
BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT
TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT MAIL-IN
VOTING IS GOING TO BE AND WHAT
WE SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT.
JOINING ME IS EXACTLY THE PERSON
TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.
EL
ELLEN WEINTRAUB.
LET’S JUST DISPENSE OF THIS.
THE ELECTION IS GOING TO BE HELD
ON NOVEMBER 3rd, BUT THERE’S NO
WAY, EVEN IF YOU COULD BY LAW
CHANGE IT, WHICH IS POSSIBLE,
THERE’S NO EXTENSION OF THE
PRESIDENCY THAT’S GOING TO GO
ON.
>> NO, THAT’S RIGHT.
UNDERHE CONSTITUTION, THE
PRESIDENCY ENDS, THIS SKURNT ARE
TERM ENDS AT NOON ON JANUARY
20th.
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THERE’S AN
ELECTION BETWEEN NOW AND THEN,
THIS PRESIDENCY IS GOING TO BE
OVER.
NOW, WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN IS
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE AN ELECTION
ON NOVEMBER 3rd AND WHOEVER WINS
THAT ELECTION WILL BE
INAUGURATED ON JANUARY 20th OF
NEXT YEAR.
>> LET’S TALK ABOUT THE THINGS
THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT.
IF WE’RE GOING TO VOTE BY MAIL,
WHICH I THINK WE SHOULD, IN LARGE NUMBERS, WE’RE GOING FROM
LARGE NUMBERS, WE’RE GOING FROM
23% OF BALLOTS CAST IN DWIXT,201
40, 50, 60%, THERE ARE
LOGISTICAL THINGS TO WORRY
ABOUT.
SOME STATES HAVE MASTERED THIS.
BUT IF THERE’S ANY FEAR OF
MAIL-IN VOTING, IT’S LOGISTICS,
NOT FRAUD.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
AS YOU POINTED OUT, THERE HAVE
BEEN MANY, MANY STUDIES OF THIS.
PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED FOR THIS.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO
FIND EVIDENCE THAT THERE’S BEEN
FRAUD IN VOTING, AND THEY CAN’T FIND IT.
FIND IT.
ONLY AN IN VERY SMALL NUMBER HAS
BEEN FOUND.
THAT IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD
BE WORRIED ABOUT IN THIS
ELECTION.
BUT YOU’RE RIGHT, THE LOGISTICS
WILL BE COMPLICATED.
>> SORRY.
GO AHEAD.
>> AND TO THAT THAT EXTENT, WE
HAVE A BIT OF A DELAY, BUT I HAD
A CONVERSATION WITH THE
SECRETARY OF STATE FROM COLORADO
LAST NIGHT.
THEY’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR
SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS AND IT’S
LIKE ORDERING A DOMINO’S PIZZA.
YOU CAN SEE WHERE IN THE SYSTEM
YOUR BALLOT IS.
YOU CAN SEE WHEN IT’S BEEN
RECEIVED.
YOU CAN CHECK IT THE WHOLE WAY.
IT’S -- I MEAN, IT’S 2020.
WE CAN PUT -- WE CAN GO TO MARS,
WE CAN HANDLE THE TECHNOLOGY
ASSOCIATED WITH MAIL-IN VOTING.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
I MEAN, WE GET PACKAGES, WE
TRACK OUR PACKAGES ONLINE.
IT’S REALLY NOT A PROBLEM.
SO, I DON’T THINK ANYBODY SHOULD
BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT.
WHAT WE DO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT
IS THAT, AS YOU’VE SAID, IN
COLORADO AND WASHINGTON AND
UTAH, THERE ARE STATES THAT HAVE
BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME.
THE MILITARY DOES IT ALL THE
TIME.
THEY’RE VERY GOOD AT IT.
THEY KNOW EXACTLY THOUSAND GET
THIS
HOW TO GET THIS DONE.
THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN I HAVE
ISRYIS
RESOURCES.
CONGRESS HAS NOT ALLOCATED
SUFFICIENT RESOURCES TO THE
STATES IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE
AMOUNT OF RESOURCE THESE WILL
NEED TO PUT INTO THIS.
NOT ONLY WILL THEY NEED TO VAULT
SUPPLIES THEY NEED TO RAMP UP
THEIR VOTE BY MAIL OPERATION,
BUT SOME PEOPLE WILL STILL WANT
TO VOTE IN PERSON AND THEY WILL
NEED SUPPLIES FOR THAT.
THEY WILL NEED BIGGER SPACES.
THEY WILL NEED SANITARY SUPPLIES
TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY CAN DO
THIS SAFELY AND THEY’LL NEED TO
BE ABLE TO SPACE PEOPLE OUT.
SO ALL OF THIS -- THEY’RE GOING
TO NEED TO HIRE PEOPLE.
THEY’RE GOING TO HAVE TROUBLE
HIRING PEOPLE.
I WOULD -- I WOULD URGE ANYONE
OUT THERE WHO IS YOUNG AND
HEALTHY AND WANTS TO DO
SOMETHING FOR THEIR DEMOCRACY TO
VOLUNTEER TO BE A POLL WORKER
BECAUSE THE STATES ARE HURTING
FOR THAT TOO.
BUT MY NUMBER ONE PRIORITY RIGHT
NOW IS TO SEE CONGRESS AND THE
PRESIDENT COME TOGETHER AND APPROPRIATE A LOT OF MONEY TO
APPROPRIATE A LOT OF MONEY TO
THE STATES.
THE BRAN
THEY ESTIMATED IT WOULD COST
$4 BILLION TO THE STATES TO RUN
THIS.
AND SO FAR THERE’S BEEN ABOUT
$400 MILLION ALLOCATED, IT IS
JUST NOT ENOUGH.
>> YOU KNOW, IN 20 OR 30 YEARS
WHEN KIDS OR GRANDKIDS ASK US
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE ELECTION
OF 2020, TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT
I WAS A POLL WORKER OR I HELPED
MAKE THAT ELECTION FAIR WOULD
ACTUALLY BE A GREAT CIVIC
SERVICE.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW TO DO
THIS, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT
VENDORS, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT
PRINTING AND POLL WORKERS, THERE
ARE BEST PRACTICES, AND WE CAN
LOOK TO OREGON, WASHINGTON
STATE, OR COLORADO AND PLACES
LIKE THAT.
BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME BASIC
MINIMUM STANDARDS WE HAVE TO
MEET.
ARE YOU CONCERNED THAT THERE ARE
SOME STATES THAT AREN’T UP TO
THAT YET?
>> I THINK THAT THE STATES ARE
WORKING VERY HARD AT THIS.
THEY’RE WORKING COOPERATIVE.
THEY’RE WORKING TO GET ADVICE
FROM OTHER STATES THAT HAVE MORE
EXPERIENCE IN THIS.
SO I THINK THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF VERY DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO ARE
OF VERY DEDICATED PEOPLE WHO ARE
GOING TO DO THEIR OUTMOSTUTMOST
DONE RIGHT.
THERE ARE SOME MIC MISTAKESSTAKE
BUT IT’S DIFFERENT THAN FRAUD.
THERE’S NEVER BEEN A PERFECT
ELECTION.
BUT PEOPLE SHOULD NOT LOSE THEIR
MINDS OVER EVERY INDIVIDUAL
MISTAKE THAT GETS MADE.
THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO
ARE DOING THIS WORK, PROFLDS WHO
ARE GOINGPROFESSIONALS WHO ARE G
TO TRY TO GET THIS RIGHT FOR THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN THOSE
PEOPLE.
>> I APPRECIATE YOU COMING OUT