WEBVTT - We're Still Counting Ballots? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.160 And very happy Friday to you at twelve oh seventy. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.400 In the West, it's the joint at Phillips Show, mister 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:09.440 Randy Weggs in Culver City. John. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.400 It is now day four of counting the ballots in 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.960 California and Los Angeles, and the numbers that we have 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.079 right now have shifted a little, but not a lot yet. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.040 In the LA mayors race, Karen Bass has one hundred 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.360 and ninety five thousand votes at thirty five percent, Spencer 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.560 Pratt is thirty three thousand votes below that one hundred 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.960 and sixty three thousand and twenty nine percent, and Nithia 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.760 has thirty three thousand votes below Spencer Pratt at one 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.720 hundred and thirty thoy twenty three percent. In the governor's race, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.080 for some reason, Decision Desk has now said that it's 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.080 definitely Bakarea Hilton's maybe, but Hilton has twenty seven percent, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.840 Bakaria has twenty six percent, and Steyer has twenty and today. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.480 The betting markets all turned on Hilton. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.960 I don't know what to tell you about these betting markets. Again, 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.559 you have to take this with a grain of salt 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.440 unless people have inside information. But boy, is there a 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.440 lot of money being placed on these. The Governor's race 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.600 one is now up to almost six million dollars, but 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.399 currently it has Styre at a sixty four percent chance, 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.080 no excuse me, Styre at a thirty six percent chance 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.280 of making the runoff, Hilton at a sixty four percent chance, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.479 and that has gone down quite a bit. In the 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.600 La Mayors one, Nthia is at a seventy nine percent 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.959 chance to make the runoff, and Spencer Prade is down 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.000 to twenty three But I have not seen the amount 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:41.120 of ballots that Nythia needs to cross that deficit happen yet. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.640 But I don't know. Maybe we'll see today. This state 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.720 is soll third world. How in the world are we 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.640 three days after the election and we still don't know 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:54.200 who won. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.720 Imagine how long this process would take if everybody voted. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.000 This is how long the taking to count and verify 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.760 ballots when twenty five percent of the state votes. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.399 So we got an email from a listener who has 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:13.080 worked at the post office his entire life, and I 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.800 got the impression from the email that the guy was 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:21.240 in management or in some administrative capacity at this point, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:26.200 and he said that ballots at the post office are 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:30.760 treated as very high priority, not just ballots, but he 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.320 said also any kind of political literature as you get 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.720 close to the election, because if political literature is delivered 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.120 the day after the election, you don't want the candidate 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.800 or the issue group or whatever blaming the post office 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:51.359 for why they lost the election. So he said there 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.840 is an internal rule that there is a rush on 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.720 all ballots, and if a truck breaks down or there's 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.520 some problem, it's not like they just leave it there 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.000 for the next day. They are right on top of 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.360 it because they know what an important role they play 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.280 in the process. And he said there is no reason 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.480 for any ballot that's mailed within the state of California 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:22.240 not to get to the registrar within two days three tops. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:27.720 If something irregular happens, something goes wrong. We are now 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.880 three days after the election. I understand there are people 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.720 who are students studying abroad and maybe if they put 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.560 their ballot in the mail in Asia or Europe or 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.720 South America or some remote part of the world, those 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.480 ballots haven't gotten here yet. Maybe if you're a pilot 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.640 or a flight attendant or in the military and you're 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.480 somewhere far off, your ballot hasn't gotten here yet, but 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.800 that has to be a tiny percent of the ballots. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.280 Ninety nine percent of them. I bet you are mailed 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.520 within the state of California. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.520 Now they have the ballots, the vast majority of the ballots, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.200 they have them. It's this process of counting them that 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.360 is taking a bazillion years. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.680 And I just for the life of me, can't figure 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:25.680 out who thinks this is acceptable. You know what this 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.799 reminds me of. It reminds me of buying a house, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.359 because you go to the negotiating table, you take a 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.200 look at the house, you see what you like, what 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.880 you don't like, what the asking price is, You put 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.800 your offer in, you go back and forth, you come 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.840 to an agreement, and boom, you go into escrow. And 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.080 then the escrow lasts for forty five days unless you're me, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.960 and it goes way beyond that. And during the escrow 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.640 it's all these twists and turns, and each side thinks 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.520 the others screwing each other, and you have to go 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.839 back to the negotiating table because someone steals the pul 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:13.120 pump whatever, and it just goes on and on and 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.920 on and on, and it's a dog fight. The entire time, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.400 and you just can't wait for it to be over. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.080 And that's what this feels like. This feels like we're 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.120 buying a house that we don't even want, and it's 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.560 a never ending escrow with no end in sight. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.080 We would all like to move on, but it seems 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.640 that this slow process is going to continue today, throughout 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.440 the weekend, and early next week before we have a 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.960 definitive answer on who the top two are on the 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.320 races that everyone's paying attention to, the California governor's race 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.200 and the LA mayors race. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.200 Now I'd like to point out we're the ones paying 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.479 attention to those two races, but the same dynamic is 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.760 at play up and down the ballot because they're slow 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.000 counting all the ballots, and those races are determined by 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.440 the votes on the same ballots that are waiting to 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.200 be counted. So there are any number of people who 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.400 are running for state legislature, running for Congress, running for judge, 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.800 running for city council. Nobody knows the results for anything well. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.200 And to that point, one of the congressional races that's 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.839 getting a lot of attention is in House District six. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.160 That's the one where Kevin Kylie, who is now a 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.200 No Party preference, was trying to keep his job. I 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.520 don't think they've had an update on that one since Tuesday, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.080 and we might get one today. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.400 No, many of these counties do not do daily drops. 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:54.880 They do them periodically once or twice a week. Well, 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.479 why aren't you working twenty four to seven? If you 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:03.599 work for the Registrar of Voters, you're kind of like 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.800 Santa Claus. Santa Claus works one day a year. You 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:12.640 people work the primary and the general. Why are they 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.720 shutting down for weekends or holidays or whatever we are 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:23.240 they Why aren't they going twenty four to seven? This 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:28.000 is your one job? And by the way, why are 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.120 they even allowed to be unionized? I was reading that 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.160 it's the SEIU that represents the people who count the 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.960 ballots in Los Angeles County they endorsed in all of 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:43.000 these races. Isn't that a conflict of interest? Little bit? 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.800 I mean, even for the oscars, don't they go to 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.200 third party companies that handle the votes? Price, Waterhouse and Cooper. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:08:00.640 There you go. Why do I know that I live 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.640 in an HOA and we have to vote for the 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:10.520 board members of the HOA well, the management company that 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.680 we hired works for the current board, so from the 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.360 point of view of the HOA, it's a conflict of 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:23.320 interest to let that management company count the votes. So 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.760 they farm it out to a third party that doesn't 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.480 have any conflict of interest to count the votes for 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:34.480 a little HOA election. Why in the world wouldn't you 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.840 do the same thing for an actual election. In fact, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.240 I think even Randy in our Union elections, they farm 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.480 it out to a third party to count the votes. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.840 Do you vote in those No? I did one time 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.760 because doctor Drew was running for something. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.200 I miss the days where I get the voicemail from 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.800 Fran Dresher Hi, It's Fran needs you to vote on this. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:08.560 I cannot believe it, quite frankly. And we had that 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.120 woman from Beverly Hills nine oh two and oh before her, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.439 Gabrielle Carterras. I don't even know who it is now, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:21.360 do you. Isn't it Sean Aston? Maybe I don't know. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.280 I'll tell you what needs to happen, because you cannot 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.560 rely on the State of California to fix any of this, because, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.120 for whatever reason, they're perfectly fine with all the chaos. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.679 Why I don't know, but they seem to be. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.840 You see Gavin Newsom's press officelyes in putting out we 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.320 wish it was faster too. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.280 No, you don't, you appointed, Shirley Webber. You ding dong. 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.959 Here's what needs to happen. The first thing that they 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.360 need to do is Voter I D needs to pass 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:02.439 and we need to make sure that the individual gets 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.280 their correct ballot and that they are legally allowed to 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.400 vote in the state of California. And if you verify that, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.760 that's one assurance. The other thing that we should do, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.960 which is never going to happen because the state's in 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.760 charge of this, is we should go back to the 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.240 old days where you only get an absenceee ballot if 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:25.560 you request one, you got to opt in, and you 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:30.400 need to opt in every single election. No more of this. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.200 We're going to have a gazillion ballots just floating in 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.120 the ether. I remember when I lived in an apartment 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.679 complex in West Hollywood. Every single election there would be 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.880 a stack of ballots in the mail room that we're 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:50.400 just sitting there. Because when you deal with areas like 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.280 that where people are coming to work in the entertainment 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:58.240 industry or trying to make it in Hollywood. Whatever, they 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:03.000 come and they go. People don't stay a long time. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:05.880 You either hit it big and you buy a house 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.120 in the hills, or you strike out and you go 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.440 back to Kansas, or you can't pay the rent in 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.600 a nicer neighborhood so you go live in a cheaper neighborhood. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.680 There's a lot of churn in those areas. And we 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.760 would have a massive stack of ballads that would just 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.760 be sitting in the mailroom and then one day they 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.360 would just disappear. And I don't know who took them. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.920 I don't know what they did with them. They just disappear. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.840 Regardless of whether or not something nefarious is going on, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.839 that doesn't make people confident in the election. Your vote 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.440 should be sacred. Your vote should be something that is 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.600 legitimate and done the right way and that sort of thing. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.839 And to just have them floating around like it's some 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.160 sort of ad from bed bath and beyond is not good. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:02.280 That shouldn't happen. And we know how often we clean 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.360 up the voting roles, So let's just assume that there's 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.120 nothing bad going on. People who are dead should not 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:13.320 be getting ballots, People who moved should not be getting ballots. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.720 People who were in prison should not be getting ballots. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.080 And if you don't clean up the roles regularly, those 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.240 ballots are just floating around on the ether. And it 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.520 also makes it look like no one cares because the 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.360 voter participation is so low because all of these people 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.240 who aren't really active voters are still listed as active 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.560 voters on the rolls. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.160 Think of how much paper we're wasting when seventy percent 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.559 of these ballots go in the trash well, and it's. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.280 Not even just the ballots, because the candidates think that 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.839 person is still participating, so they send them all the mail. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.080 So when we had that Prop fifty election, do you 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.760 remember there was the story of the woman who's been 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.560 dead since nineteen ninety four. They got a ballot in 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.680 Los Angeles County. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.600 Oh, I'm not surprised at all. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.959 So how much Tom Steyer mail? Do you think her 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.559 grave got? About four hundred and eighty two dollars worth? 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.800 And I'll tell you something else that should happen. If 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.920 the Registrar of voters is not in possession of your 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:25.640 ballot by election day, it should not count no more 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.960 of this putting it in the mail on election day 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.320 and having it postmarked, and the postmarked is what matters. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.000 No more of that, because then you don't know when 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.400 the ballots are going to get there or not. If 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.480 it's by eight pm on election day, then you know 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.960 what you're dealing with. Then it's easier to count the ballots. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.800 It's easier to add them all up and figure out 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.600 who won and who lost. And I'll tell you what 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.040 excuse can be used to do that. Because of the 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.760 budget cuts, the post Office can no longer guarantee if 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.560 you drop off a letter at the post office then 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.840 it will be postmarked that day. They say it'll be 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.960 done that day or the next day, but they cannot 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.040 guarantee that it will be done that day. Well, if 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.960 that's the case, and you tell people if you drop 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.120 it off by eight pm on Tuesday, it'll count, and 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.520 maybe it will, maybe it won't, that should be illegal. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:33.360 And I think the courts could step in and say 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:38.120 no more of that allowed. In fact, I believe that 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.000 will actually happen at some point. And if the Feds 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.120 do that, that's outside the hands of the state. The 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.240 state has no control over what the federal courts do. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.120 They can argue against it in court, I guess, but 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.000 the decision lies with the Feds and not the state. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.640 But we have to change the way we do this 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:01.400 because guess what if you haven't a less action and 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.640 everyone wakes up the next morning and see certain results, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.120 and a month and a half later, you go to 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.560 them and you go, yeah, uh, no one who was 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.440 ahead on election night actually won. They all lost. In fact, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.200 no one will trust the process. No one will trust 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:18.840 it well. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.080 And to that point, we have not seen an increase 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.840 in turnout since this system was put in. Turnout is 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:31.320 way down. Turnout is low. This does not inspire anybody 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.920 to vote. By giving them an entire month to turn 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.600 it in, plus a few days for dropping it off 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.800 at the last second, it is not inspiring people to 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.000 actually show up. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.640 No, And then whenever there's some sort of irregularity that's 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.920 pointed out, they go, oh, it's a reporting here, Oh 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.240 it's a mistake. Oh it wasn't anything bad, it wasn't 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.640 anything nefarious, it was just something that just wasn't done correctly. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.680 And you go, okay, Well, if you allow the process 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.280 to drag on for a month and a half, how 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.240 many of those mistakes are going to pop up, and 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.480 the answer is a lot. The more opportunities you give 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.920 them to make mistakes, the more mistakes you're going to get. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.000 So if you have these mistakes over and over and 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.560 over and over and over again, no one is going 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.840 to end up trusting them, No one, because guess what 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.640 if all of a sudden a month from now, they go, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.120 oh yeah, Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton lost, They're not 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.720 making it to the November runoff, too bad, so sad 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.520 that all of the Republicans are going to be furious 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.000 and believe that they rig the election. And then guess what, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.320 when you get to November, you're going to end up 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.840 with a traditional Democrat and a socialist, and then one 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.720 of them is going to be really upset to after 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.920 it goes on for a month and a half to 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:50.160 count the ballots. We can't live like this, we can't 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.480 do business like this, and we can't trust the state 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.560 to reform it. So it's got to be the voters 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.400 that do it with voter ID and it's got to 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.280 be the Fed who step in and say no, no, no, no, no, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.480 no more of this. Stop acting like a third world country. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.720 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.960 a telephone number one eight hundred two two two five 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.640 two two two. 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You could listen to these podcasts 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.000 whether you're commuting by car, whether you're commuting by bike, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.080 or whether you're commuting by public transit. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.360 I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team. All right. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.440 Let's go to the phones at eight hundred two two 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.160 two five two two two and begin with Jack and Anaheim. Jack. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.360 Hello, Hey, how you doing. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:48.480 John good? 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.239 Yeah, I'm a retired postal employee and I can just 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:59.960 verify it. I can guarantee if there is no political 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.560 mail at any post office in the country right now, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.080 and I guarantee they cleared it out the day the 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.760 day before the election. I spent thirty four years in 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:17.199 the post office, and I remember, if you know, I 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:20.800 worked at delivery units. Those are post office that actually 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.560 had mail carriers working in them. If a ballot was 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:29.040 found the day before the election, and that mailman had 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.960 already left and was on the street, the supervisor would 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:37.200 take it out and deliberate. And I also spent more 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.800 than a decade a processing plan. And if we found 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.080 a single ballot at three o'clock in the morning and 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.800 it didn't get on a truck, a supervisor would take 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.359 it to that delivery unit to make sure I got 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.199 you know, processed and delivered. You know. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.639 And to be clear, this works both ways, correct the 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.840 BA the ballots going to the voter and the ballots 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.280 going back to the registrar. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:06.080 Yes. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.560 Yes, And there is an unwritten rule in that post 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.600 office that all of that mail is to be treated 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:15.879 with the highest priority. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:25.639 They treated with more uh priority than express mail, and 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.440 they even document it. When when I was working at 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:35.600 a processing plan, we would get you know, how you 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:40.919 get political mail from all the politicians they usually throw away. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.040 I'm not talking about the bullets that mail. That mail 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.639 would come in from the bulk mail offices that are 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.560 usually in the delivery units, all these smaller offices, and 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.600 they would be in containers rolling containers that would be 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.320 marked political mail. And when that came out the truck, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:06.119 we would log each mailing and a log book on 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:10.359 the dock it would say you know, Joe Schmoe, and 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:13.600 each mail piece would have a title like I'm going 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.159 to lower your taxes, and it'd be the day and 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.280 time that we got that mailing, and if it was 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.280 a letter or a magazine size mail piece, and we'd 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.720 send it out on the worklow four to be processed. 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.760 And when it got to the processing area, there was 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.960 another log book and it would say what time it 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:36.959 was processed and when it was dispatched, you know. And 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:39.800 I even worked in Like I said, I was in 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:43.080 the post office for thirty four years, and for several 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.159 years I worked at a bulk mail office, and the 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.920 Friday before an election was referred to as black Friday 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:58.199 because that was the cutoff time that politicians could drop 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:04.040 off political mailing. And once that bulk mail office was 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:08.000 closed on Friday prior to the election, they couldn't mail 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:16.320 anymore political mailing. And after every election, like clockwork, we 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:22.000 would have every losing politician coming into the poste looking 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:28.240 for their mail, claiming that we lost their mail. I 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.240 swear to God, every swing in. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:34.080 One, which one had the biggest meltdown? 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:37.840 Oh it's always a Democrat. 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:44.720 You know. Okay, So if there is a piece of mail, 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:48.359 let's go ahead no. 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:53.399 And say, for instance, because you know a lot of 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:58.960 the mails processed through automation on machines, and sometimes mail 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.800 gets damaged, you know, through processing, it gets jammed in 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:06.120 the machine and mail pieces get damaged. Then you got 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:10.560 to process those machines or those mail pieces manually. All 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:14.800 that's logged in, right, so when you get political mail, 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:18.080 it's damaged. All that mail, you know, everything is logged 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.480 in in a log book. So those politicians would be 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:24.239 coming in and they would say they want to look 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.960 at all the logbooks. How many pieces of their mail 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:31.760 were damaged, you know, and processed manually, and it would 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.200 just be a fiasco. You know. If they lost by 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:40.639 ten thousand votes and twenty pieces of their mail got 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:43.840 damaged during processing, it was a post office's fall because 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:45.600 they lost, you know. 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.560 Okay, So let's talk about the time it takes for 0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:56.560 something to get to its destination. If you put a 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.920 ballot in the mail somewhere in the state of California, 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:04.359 how long should it take to get to the registrar's 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:08.919 office in the county that you vote in two days max. 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.040 Two days max. I guarantee you if I put a 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:23.640 ballot anywhere in Orange County, anywhere in Orange County on Monday, 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:29.560 it would be at the Register's office on Tuesday. 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:33.920 Now, let's just say you're in the military, you are 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:36.000 a student studying abroad. 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:39.680 Your priority, then express mail? Okay on you right now? 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.760 Ballots coming from overseas, though, how long should that take 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:47.840 for those ballots to get there if you drop it 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:49.280 off in Spain or whatever. 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:53.879 I'm not really sure. I know they go through San Francisco, 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:58.560 they've got overseas I think he goes through San Francisco. 0:24:59.080 --> 0:25:11.040 But there's specially they got different delivery times for overseas mail. 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:13.400 But I'm sure it's the same thing. They give them 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:19.879