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Speaker 1: There's about three hours difference. And so it is in America.

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Speaker 1: One person who is in America from little Old Adelaide

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Speaker 1: is our very own Kendall Breddick. Kenny, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Well, good afternoon from over here. I'm in sunny San

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right. That's interesting, and it's not just the

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Speaker 1: presidential election. Is that there's a whole lot of other

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and here in California they have that as well.

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Speaker 2: They have state and local government elections. Well, so they're

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Speaker 2: And there's another interesting one that I found is in

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Speaker 2: They're saying that it's slavery, modern slavery, and other people

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Speaker 1: That's unreal, isn't it? And just from our aspect, it

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Speaker 1: a whole heap of other things going on. What have

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Speaker 2: They were saying that the turnout's been really strong. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Chrispy Kleaner doing democracy donor excellent, excellent, somebody's got to getmocracy.

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Speaker 1: Love it, love it. Well, that's really interesting what you say.

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Speaker 1: And look, the Trump campaign has been hinting at their

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Speaker 2: Well, the polls that I've been watching here on the

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Speaker 2: those postal votes to count.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Even Kamala Harris voted sipos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I do recall in twenty sixteen when Trump won,

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Speaker 1: a late finish. So we'll see, won't we. Aye. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you'll be awake to see it,

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Speaker 1: but I may be here in Australian nine ten pm.

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Speaker 1: we'll wait and see. Kenny, thank you for your time,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your trip over there. We might

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, good on you.

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Speaker 1: Kendall Breddick from the five double A newsroom in the

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Speaker 1: US in California. Right at the moment, as America goes

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