Speaker 1: And very happy Friday to you at twelve oh seventy.
Speaker 1: In the West, it's the joint at Phillips Show, mister
Speaker 1: Randy Weggs in Culver City. John.
Speaker 2: It is now day four of counting the ballots in
Speaker 2: California and Los Angeles, and the numbers that we have
Speaker 2: right now have shifted a little, but not a lot yet.
Speaker 2: In the LA mayors race, Karen Bass has one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety five thousand votes at thirty five percent, Spencer
Speaker 2: Pratt is thirty three thousand votes below that one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty three thousand and twenty nine percent, and Nithia
Speaker 2: has thirty three thousand votes below Spencer Pratt at one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty thoy twenty three percent. In the governor's race,
Speaker 2: for some reason, Decision Desk has now said that it's
Speaker 2: definitely Bakarea Hilton's maybe, but Hilton has twenty seven percent,
Speaker 2: Bakaria has twenty six percent, and Steyer has twenty and today.
Speaker 1: The betting markets all turned on Hilton.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you about these betting markets. Again,
Speaker 2: you have to take this with a grain of salt
Speaker 2: unless people have inside information. But boy, is there a
Speaker 2: lot of money being placed on these. The Governor's race
Speaker 2: one is now up to almost six million dollars, but
Speaker 2: currently it has Styre at a sixty four percent chance,
Speaker 2: no excuse me, Styre at a thirty six percent chance
Speaker 2: of making the runoff, Hilton at a sixty four percent chance,
Speaker 2: and that has gone down quite a bit. In the
Speaker 2: La Mayors one, Nthia is at a seventy nine percent
Speaker 2: chance to make the runoff, and Spencer Prade is down
Speaker 2: to twenty three But I have not seen the amount
Speaker 2: of ballots that Nythia needs to cross that deficit happen yet.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe we'll see today. This state
Speaker 1: is soll third world. How in the world are we
Speaker 1: three days after the election and we still don't know
Speaker 1: who won.
Speaker 2: Imagine how long this process would take if everybody voted.
Speaker 2: This is how long the taking to count and verify
Speaker 2: ballots when twenty five percent of the state votes.
Speaker 1: So we got an email from a listener who has
Speaker 1: worked at the post office his entire life, and I
Speaker 1: got the impression from the email that the guy was
Speaker 1: in management or in some administrative capacity at this point,
Speaker 1: and he said that ballots at the post office are
Speaker 1: treated as very high priority, not just ballots, but he
Speaker 1: said also any kind of political literature as you get
Speaker 1: close to the election, because if political literature is delivered
Speaker 1: the day after the election, you don't want the candidate
Speaker 1: or the issue group or whatever blaming the post office
Speaker 1: for why they lost the election. So he said there
Speaker 1: is an internal rule that there is a rush on
Speaker 1: all ballots, and if a truck breaks down or there's
Speaker 1: some problem, it's not like they just leave it there
Speaker 1: for the next day. They are right on top of
Speaker 1: it because they know what an important role they play
Speaker 1: in the process. And he said there is no reason
Speaker 1: for any ballot that's mailed within the state of California
Speaker 1: not to get to the registrar within two days three tops.
Speaker 1: If something irregular happens, something goes wrong. We are now
Speaker 1: three days after the election. I understand there are people
Speaker 1: who are students studying abroad and maybe if they put
Speaker 1: their ballot in the mail in Asia or Europe or
Speaker 1: South America or some remote part of the world, those
Speaker 1: ballots haven't gotten here yet. Maybe if you're a pilot
Speaker 1: or a flight attendant or in the military and you're
Speaker 1: somewhere far off, your ballot hasn't gotten here yet, but
Speaker 1: that has to be a tiny percent of the ballots.
Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of them. I bet you are mailed
Speaker 1: within the state of California.
Speaker 2: Now they have the ballots, the vast majority of the ballots,
Speaker 2: they have them. It's this process of counting them that
Speaker 2: is taking a bazillion years.
Speaker 1: And I just for the life of me, can't figure
Speaker 1: out who thinks this is acceptable. You know what this
Speaker 1: reminds me of. It reminds me of buying a house,
Speaker 1: because you go to the negotiating table, you take a
Speaker 1: look at the house, you see what you like, what
Speaker 1: you don't like, what the asking price is, You put
Speaker 1: your offer in, you go back and forth, you come
Speaker 1: to an agreement, and boom, you go into escrow. And
Speaker 1: then the escrow lasts for forty five days unless you're me,
Speaker 1: and it goes way beyond that. And during the escrow
Speaker 1: it's all these twists and turns, and each side thinks
Speaker 1: the others screwing each other, and you have to go
Speaker 1: back to the negotiating table because someone steals the pul
Speaker 1: pump whatever, and it just goes on and on and
Speaker 1: on and on, and it's a dog fight. The entire time,
Speaker 1: and you just can't wait for it to be over.
Speaker 1: And that's what this feels like. This feels like we're
Speaker 1: buying a house that we don't even want, and it's
Speaker 1: a never ending escrow with no end in sight.
Speaker 2: We would all like to move on, but it seems
Speaker 2: that this slow process is going to continue today, throughout
Speaker 2: the weekend, and early next week before we have a
Speaker 2: definitive answer on who the top two are on the
Speaker 2: races that everyone's paying attention to, the California governor's race
Speaker 2: and the LA mayors race.
Speaker 1: Now I'd like to point out we're the ones paying
Speaker 1: attention to those two races, but the same dynamic is
Speaker 1: at play up and down the ballot because they're slow
Speaker 1: counting all the ballots, and those races are determined by
Speaker 1: the votes on the same ballots that are waiting to
Speaker 1: be counted. So there are any number of people who
Speaker 1: are running for state legislature, running for Congress, running for judge,
Speaker 1: running for city council. Nobody knows the results for anything well.
Speaker 2: And to that point, one of the congressional races that's
Speaker 2: getting a lot of attention is in House District six.
Speaker 2: That's the one where Kevin Kylie, who is now a
Speaker 2: No Party preference, was trying to keep his job. I
Speaker 2: don't think they've had an update on that one since Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and we might get one today.
Speaker 1: No, many of these counties do not do daily drops.
Speaker 1: They do them periodically once or twice a week. Well,
Speaker 1: why aren't you working twenty four to seven? If you
Speaker 1: work for the Registrar of Voters, you're kind of like
Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Santa Claus works one day a year. You
Speaker 1: people work the primary and the general. Why are they
Speaker 1: shutting down for weekends or holidays or whatever we are
Speaker 1: they Why aren't they going twenty four to seven? This
Speaker 1: is your one job? And by the way, why are
Speaker 1: they even allowed to be unionized? I was reading that
Speaker 1: it's the SEIU that represents the people who count the
Speaker 1: ballots in Los Angeles County they endorsed in all of
Speaker 1: these races. Isn't that a conflict of interest? Little bit?
Speaker 1: I mean, even for the oscars, don't they go to
Speaker 1: third party companies that handle the votes? Price, Waterhouse and Cooper.
Speaker 1: There you go. Why do I know that I live
Speaker 1: in an HOA and we have to vote for the
Speaker 1: board members of the HOA well, the management company that
Speaker 1: we hired works for the current board, so from the
Speaker 1: point of view of the HOA, it's a conflict of
Speaker 1: interest to let that management company count the votes. So
Speaker 1: they farm it out to a third party that doesn't
Speaker 1: have any conflict of interest to count the votes for
Speaker 1: a little HOA election. Why in the world wouldn't you
Speaker 1: do the same thing for an actual election. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think even Randy in our Union elections, they farm
Speaker 1: it out to a third party to count the votes.
Speaker 1: Do you vote in those No? I did one time
Speaker 1: because doctor Drew was running for something.
Speaker 2: I miss the days where I get the voicemail from
Speaker 2: Fran Dresher Hi, It's Fran needs you to vote on this.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe it, quite frankly. And we had that
Speaker 1: woman from Beverly Hills nine oh two and oh before her,
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Carterras. I don't even know who it is now,
Speaker 1: do you. Isn't it Sean Aston? Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what needs to happen, because you cannot
Speaker 1: rely on the State of California to fix any of this, because,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they're perfectly fine with all the chaos.
Speaker 1: Why I don't know, but they seem to be.
Speaker 2: You see Gavin Newsom's press officelyes in putting out we
Speaker 2: wish it was faster too.
Speaker 1: No, you don't, you appointed, Shirley Webber. You ding dong.
Speaker 1: Here's what needs to happen. The first thing that they
Speaker 1: need to do is Voter I D needs to pass
Speaker 1: and we need to make sure that the individual gets
Speaker 1: their correct ballot and that they are legally allowed to
Speaker 1: vote in the state of California. And if you verify that,
Speaker 1: that's one assurance. The other thing that we should do,
Speaker 1: which is never going to happen because the state's in
Speaker 1: charge of this, is we should go back to the
Speaker 1: old days where you only get an absenceee ballot if
Speaker 1: you request one, you got to opt in, and you
Speaker 1: need to opt in every single election. No more of this.
Speaker 1: We're going to have a gazillion ballots just floating in
Speaker 1: the ether. I remember when I lived in an apartment
Speaker 1: complex in West Hollywood. Every single election there would be
Speaker 1: a stack of ballots in the mail room that we're
Speaker 1: just sitting there. Because when you deal with areas like
Speaker 1: that where people are coming to work in the entertainment
Speaker 1: industry or trying to make it in Hollywood. Whatever, they
Speaker 1: come and they go. People don't stay a long time.
Speaker 1: You either hit it big and you buy a house
Speaker 1: in the hills, or you strike out and you go
Speaker 1: back to Kansas, or you can't pay the rent in
Speaker 1: a nicer neighborhood so you go live in a cheaper neighborhood.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of churn in those areas. And we
Speaker 1: would have a massive stack of ballads that would just
Speaker 1: be sitting in the mailroom and then one day they
Speaker 1: would just disappear. And I don't know who took them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they did with them. They just disappear.
Speaker 1: Regardless of whether or not something nefarious is going on,
Speaker 1: that doesn't make people confident in the election. Your vote
Speaker 1: should be sacred. Your vote should be something that is
Speaker 1: legitimate and done the right way and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: And to just have them floating around like it's some
Speaker 1: sort of ad from bed bath and beyond is not good.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't happen. And we know how often we clean
Speaker 1: up the voting roles, So let's just assume that there's
Speaker 1: nothing bad going on. People who are dead should not
Speaker 1: be getting ballots, People who moved should not be getting ballots.
Speaker 1: People who were in prison should not be getting ballots.
Speaker 1: And if you don't clean up the roles regularly, those
Speaker 1: ballots are just floating around on the ether. And it
Speaker 1: also makes it look like no one cares because the
Speaker 1: voter participation is so low because all of these people
Speaker 1: who aren't really active voters are still listed as active
Speaker 1: voters on the rolls.
Speaker 2: Think of how much paper we're wasting when seventy percent
Speaker 2: of these ballots go in the trash well, and it's.
Speaker 1: Not even just the ballots, because the candidates think that
Speaker 1: person is still participating, so they send them all the mail.
Speaker 2: So when we had that Prop fifty election, do you
Speaker 2: remember there was the story of the woman who's been
Speaker 2: dead since nineteen ninety four. They got a ballot in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles County.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not surprised at all.
Speaker 2: So how much Tom Steyer mail? Do you think her
Speaker 2: grave got? About four hundred and eighty two dollars worth?
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you something else that should happen. If
Speaker 2: the Registrar of voters is not in possession of your
Speaker 2: ballot by election day, it should not count no more
Speaker 2: of this putting it in the mail on election day
Speaker 2: and having it postmarked, and the postmarked is what matters.
Speaker 1: No more of that, because then you don't know when
Speaker 1: the ballots are going to get there or not. If
Speaker 1: it's by eight pm on election day, then you know
Speaker 1: what you're dealing with. Then it's easier to count the ballots.
Speaker 1: It's easier to add them all up and figure out
Speaker 1: who won and who lost. And I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: excuse can be used to do that. Because of the
Speaker 1: budget cuts, the post Office can no longer guarantee if
Speaker 1: you drop off a letter at the post office then
Speaker 1: it will be postmarked that day. They say it'll be
Speaker 1: done that day or the next day, but they cannot
Speaker 1: guarantee that it will be done that day. Well, if
Speaker 1: that's the case, and you tell people if you drop
Speaker 1: it off by eight pm on Tuesday, it'll count, and
Speaker 1: maybe it will, maybe it won't, that should be illegal.
Speaker 1: And I think the courts could step in and say
Speaker 1: no more of that allowed. In fact, I believe that
Speaker 1: will actually happen at some point. And if the Feds
Speaker 1: do that, that's outside the hands of the state. The
Speaker 1: state has no control over what the federal courts do.
Speaker 1: They can argue against it in court, I guess, but
Speaker 1: the decision lies with the Feds and not the state.
Speaker 1: But we have to change the way we do this
Speaker 1: because guess what if you haven't a less action and
Speaker 1: everyone wakes up the next morning and see certain results,
Speaker 1: and a month and a half later, you go to
Speaker 1: them and you go, yeah, uh, no one who was
Speaker 1: ahead on election night actually won. They all lost. In fact,
Speaker 1: no one will trust the process. No one will trust
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 2: And to that point, we have not seen an increase
Speaker 2: in turnout since this system was put in. Turnout is
Speaker 2: way down. Turnout is low. This does not inspire anybody
Speaker 2: to vote. By giving them an entire month to turn
Speaker 2: it in, plus a few days for dropping it off
Speaker 2: at the last second, it is not inspiring people to
Speaker 2: actually show up.
Speaker 1: No, And then whenever there's some sort of irregularity that's
Speaker 1: pointed out, they go, oh, it's a reporting here, Oh
Speaker 1: it's a mistake. Oh it wasn't anything bad, it wasn't
Speaker 1: anything nefarious, it was just something that just wasn't done correctly.
Speaker 1: And you go, okay, Well, if you allow the process
Speaker 1: to drag on for a month and a half, how
Speaker 1: many of those mistakes are going to pop up, and
Speaker 1: the answer is a lot. The more opportunities you give
Speaker 1: them to make mistakes, the more mistakes you're going to get.
Speaker 1: So if you have these mistakes over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over again, no one is going
Speaker 1: to end up trusting them, No one, because guess what
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden a month from now, they go,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton lost, They're not
Speaker 1: making it to the November runoff, too bad, so sad
Speaker 1: that all of the Republicans are going to be furious
Speaker 1: and believe that they rig the election. And then guess what,
Speaker 1: when you get to November, you're going to end up
Speaker 1: with a traditional Democrat and a socialist, and then one
Speaker 1: of them is going to be really upset to after
Speaker 1: it goes on for a month and a half to
Speaker 1: count the ballots. We can't live like this, we can't
Speaker 1: do business like this, and we can't trust the state
Speaker 1: to reform it. So it's got to be the voters
Speaker 1: that do it with voter ID and it's got to
Speaker 1: be the Fed who step in and say no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no more of this. Stop acting like a third world country.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones at eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: two five two two two and begin with Jack and Anaheim. Jack.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: John good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a retired postal employee and I can just
Speaker 3: verify it. I can guarantee if there is no political
Speaker 3: mail at any post office in the country right now,
Speaker 3: and I guarantee they cleared it out the day the
Speaker 3: day before the election. I spent thirty four years in
Speaker 3: the post office, and I remember, if you know, I
Speaker 3: worked at delivery units. Those are post office that actually
Speaker 3: had mail carriers working in them. If a ballot was
Speaker 3: found the day before the election, and that mailman had
Speaker 3: already left and was on the street, the supervisor would
Speaker 3: take it out and deliberate. And I also spent more
Speaker 3: than a decade a processing plan. And if we found
Speaker 3: a single ballot at three o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 3: it didn't get on a truck, a supervisor would take
Speaker 3: it to that delivery unit to make sure I got
Speaker 3: you know, processed and delivered. You know.
Speaker 1: And to be clear, this works both ways, correct the
Speaker 1: BA the ballots going to the voter and the ballots
Speaker 1: going back to the registrar.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, And there is an unwritten rule in that post
Speaker 1: office that all of that mail is to be treated
Speaker 1: with the highest priority.
Speaker 3: They treated with more uh priority than express mail, and
Speaker 3: they even document it. When when I was working at
Speaker 3: a processing plan, we would get you know, how you
Speaker 3: get political mail from all the politicians they usually throw away.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the bullets that mail. That mail
Speaker 3: would come in from the bulk mail offices that are
Speaker 3: usually in the delivery units, all these smaller offices, and
Speaker 3: they would be in containers rolling containers that would be
Speaker 3: marked political mail. And when that came out the truck,
Speaker 3: we would log each mailing and a log book on
Speaker 3: the dock it would say you know, Joe Schmoe, and
Speaker 3: each mail piece would have a title like I'm going
Speaker 3: to lower your taxes, and it'd be the day and
Speaker 3: time that we got that mailing, and if it was
Speaker 3: a letter or a magazine size mail piece, and we'd
Speaker 3: send it out on the worklow four to be processed.
Speaker 3: And when it got to the processing area, there was
Speaker 3: another log book and it would say what time it
Speaker 3: was processed and when it was dispatched, you know. And
Speaker 3: I even worked in Like I said, I was in
Speaker 3: the post office for thirty four years, and for several
Speaker 3: years I worked at a bulk mail office, and the
Speaker 3: Friday before an election was referred to as black Friday
Speaker 3: because that was the cutoff time that politicians could drop
Speaker 3: off political mailing. And once that bulk mail office was
Speaker 3: closed on Friday prior to the election, they couldn't mail
Speaker 3: anymore political mailing. And after every election, like clockwork, we
Speaker 3: would have every losing politician coming into the poste looking
Speaker 3: for their mail, claiming that we lost their mail. I
Speaker 3: swear to God, every swing in.
Speaker 1: One, which one had the biggest meltdown?
Speaker 3: Oh it's always a Democrat.
Speaker 1: You know. Okay, So if there is a piece of mail,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead no.
Speaker 3: And say, for instance, because you know a lot of
Speaker 3: the mails processed through automation on machines, and sometimes mail
Speaker 3: gets damaged, you know, through processing, it gets jammed in
Speaker 3: the machine and mail pieces get damaged. Then you got
Speaker 3: to process those machines or those mail pieces manually. All
Speaker 3: that's logged in, right, so when you get political mail,
Speaker 3: it's damaged. All that mail, you know, everything is logged
Speaker 3: in in a log book. So those politicians would be
Speaker 3: coming in and they would say they want to look
Speaker 3: at all the logbooks. How many pieces of their mail
Speaker 3: were damaged, you know, and processed manually, and it would
Speaker 3: just be a fiasco. You know. If they lost by
Speaker 3: ten thousand votes and twenty pieces of their mail got
Speaker 3: damaged during processing, it was a post office's fall because
Speaker 3: they lost, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's talk about the time it takes for
Speaker 1: something to get to its destination. If you put a
Speaker 1: ballot in the mail somewhere in the state of California,
Speaker 1: how long should it take to get to the registrar's
Speaker 1: office in the county that you vote in two days max.
Speaker 3: Two days max. I guarantee you if I put a
Speaker 3: ballot anywhere in Orange County, anywhere in Orange County on Monday,
Speaker 3: it would be at the Register's office on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Now, let's just say you're in the military, you are
Speaker 1: a student studying abroad.
Speaker 3: Your priority, then express mail? Okay on you right now?
Speaker 1: Ballots coming from overseas, though, how long should that take
Speaker 1: for those ballots to get there if you drop it
Speaker 1: off in Spain or whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure. I know they go through San Francisco,
Speaker 3: they've got overseas I think he goes through San Francisco.
Speaker 3: But there's specially they got different delivery times for overseas mail.
Speaker 3: But I'm sure it's the same thing. They give them
Speaker 3: the highest priority. I guarantee there's a zero delay, zero delay.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you loaning us your expertise, sir.
Speaker 3: And one more thing, my wife is working. She's also
Speaker 3: a retired postal employee. She was a postal inspector for
Speaker 3: over twenty years. And we're both bored because we're retired.
Speaker 3: But I'm not bored enough to work. But every time
Speaker 3: there's an election, she volunteers to work for the Register's office,
Speaker 3: and she's been doing that in Santa Anna this year.
Speaker 3: She's scheduled the work through the end of the month,
Speaker 3: and I just talked to her about it. Now. I
Speaker 3: talked to her about an hour ago. I said, what
Speaker 3: are you guys doing. Well, we're running mail, I said
Speaker 3: below me, I said, you guys are sitting around eating doughnuts.
Speaker 3: I guarantee you. And I told her, I said, you'd
Speaker 3: better watch out because I said the DOJ is coming today.
Speaker 3: See you guys, better be busy.
Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you for the call, sir. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Sharon in Riverside. Sharon, Hello, I'm not Sharon dropped. Okay,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Larry and Hayward. Larry welcome.
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks guys.
Speaker 4: I've done this three times where I'll get to register
Speaker 4: by mail. I did it once like twenty years ago,
Speaker 4: ten years ago, in about three years ago, made up
Speaker 4: a name, made up a social Security number, used my
Speaker 4: own address, and they registered me to vote under that name,
Speaker 4: and I'd get multiples and they'd send me the ballot
Speaker 4: in the mail. Now, that was obviously disturbing, but then
Speaker 4: about a month later, I want them. I got a
Speaker 4: thing from the Justice Department and they were calling me
Speaker 4: for drury duty under the spectitious name I made.
Speaker 2: Up so huge Azz had to report for jury duty.
Speaker 4: I didn't report, but I got a thing wanted us
Speaker 4: for jury duty under the name I made up, and
Speaker 4: obviously very disturbing, and it's got me involved in years
Speaker 4: and years ago, and I've told people about it, and
Speaker 4: I've done it. I hang on to the ballots. I
Speaker 4: never use them. I still have them in my file
Speaker 4: at home, going back a few years. But the system
Speaker 4: is that stupid and people don't seem now. Let me
Speaker 4: point out two other things. One other things in the
Speaker 4: original days, not that I did this. When the original days,
Speaker 4: when you voted you had a precincts that they would
Speaker 4: purposely put the precincts more than a day's ride on
Speaker 4: horseback apart, so you can only vote at one place.
Speaker 4: That made sense. That's why I had one voting day
Speaker 4: for voting. Well with all the electronics nowadays, that they
Speaker 4: could keep practive when you voted. So if you're in
Speaker 4: LA and you need a vote in San Francisco, you
Speaker 4: could go to any place and it should be show
Speaker 4: your ID. They could bring every thing out, issue you
Speaker 4: a ballot and vote, and they shouldn't have it probably
Speaker 4: be you know, four days of vote or five days
Speaker 4: of vote so everybody could get in and technically we
Speaker 4: don't have a secret ballot anymore. People say, well, yes,
Speaker 4: we did.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: Originally, when you voted, it was illegal for you to
Speaker 4: show anybody your ballot and how you voted, because that
Speaker 4: meant people could buy your vote. I'll vote for you,
Speaker 4: pay me fifty bucks and improve it. Now I couldn't
Speaker 4: get to fifty bucks. Give them my ballot and they
Speaker 4: can mail. They know they got their vote. So it
Speaker 4: is so as excuse me, it is so stupid what
Speaker 4: they're doing, and they don't seem to want to do
Speaker 4: a thing about it either side. And it's not that
Speaker 4: it would change an election. It's that it takes credibility
Speaker 4: out of election and that is super sad. So hopefully
Speaker 4: the FEDS will do something right.
Speaker 1: Thank thank you for the call, sir. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two. He
Speaker 1: is a telephone number one eight hundred two two two
Speaker 1: five two two two. I'll tell you something else we
Speaker 1: shouldn't do with our elections here in California. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: allow a month and a half of an election season.
Speaker 1: We should vote on one day and that's it. What
Speaker 1: do you think would have happened if the Eric Swolwell
Speaker 1: story broke midway through election season.
Speaker 2: Well, considering that he got twenty thousand votes when the
Speaker 2: story broke in April.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what would have happened if he won
Speaker 1: that election. Imagine that. Imagine going on a month and
Speaker 1: a half and they go, guess what, Democrats your nominees
Speaker 1: an accused rapist. Could you imagine what heads would be exploding?
Speaker 1: They're about to do this in Maine, by the way.
Speaker 2: Well he's not being accused of rape, but he's being
Speaker 2: accused of a whole lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Not rape, but everything else. And let me tell you
Speaker 1: there are enough red flags right now where there could
Speaker 1: be trouble on the horizon. But the voting's been going on,
Speaker 1: and my guess is they're going to end up with
Speaker 1: this guy. But what do you do if you find
Speaker 1: out you want no public association with him after the
Speaker 1: month and a half of voting, and it's I guess
Speaker 1: at that point of marriage, wouldn't you want a mulligan
Speaker 1: on that one? I would. But if he's elected, he's elected.
Speaker 1: If it happens in one day, at least you have
Speaker 1: some time to vet the guy. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: back to the phones and welcome Key in San Francisco. Key, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 5: Thanks for taking like Yeah, Tom, I just want to
Speaker 5: let you guys know that about the election. I told
Speaker 5: you guys to last of twenty twenty four election during
Speaker 5: Trump election. MANI elections that are still getting my brothers
Speaker 5: in law ballot. I cannot even get rid of it.
Speaker 5: He couldn't even get rid of it. He already living
Speaker 5: in Texas for the last six years.
Speaker 1: And does he vote in Texas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's already moving in Texas, Austin, Texas before COVID
Speaker 5: or no during COVID.
Speaker 1: So we're talking years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Towny twenty has already moved to Austin, Texas, and
Speaker 5: we're still getting his ballots.
Speaker 1: And you notified the registrar saying stop sending it, and
Speaker 1: they send it anyway.
Speaker 5: Yes, So both office tell every every possible still getting
Speaker 5: it yep. Now, second of all is if that's just
Speaker 5: happening to my brother in law, what happened to my
Speaker 5: parents that used to live in Sacramento on the retirement home.
Speaker 5: Uh you know, of course of living type in cheap
Speaker 5: adult home. They has all but almost like thirty stories
Speaker 5: and they were gone out of the country and that
Speaker 5: passed away. My mom passed away. The last one was
Speaker 5: over four years ago. I'm just wondering they're still getting
Speaker 5: the email from that retirement home because we don't get
Speaker 5: their mail. You know, they sent it directly over there
Speaker 5: when they were in this country, but they already left
Speaker 5: the country. And uh. And in that they called the
Speaker 5: Lung Center in Sacramento. Where we found out also is
Speaker 5: during every election there's somebody coming in from somewhere, a volunteer,
Speaker 5: trying to teach them how to properly, you know, fill
Speaker 5: out the ballot. And one year and I look at
Speaker 5: the ballot because my mom asked, uh, you know, heard
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. So my mom said, no, this is
Speaker 5: what they told us to fill out. So I look
Speaker 5: at it and say, yeah. We have a workshop during
Speaker 5: every election and we go to the conference room everybody,
Speaker 5: and they tell us how to make a sample of
Speaker 5: the vote, you know, the paper, how to fill out
Speaker 5: the ballot the proper way so they don't get rejected.
Speaker 5: And I looked at they say here, here, here's a sample,
Speaker 5: and I look at it. It's all for Democrats. Obama.
Speaker 5: They fill it out. Oh, fill it out already. That's
Speaker 5: all I said, is just we just have to pop
Speaker 5: in and fign it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you are a vulnerable population, if you are
Speaker 1: living in an assisted living for facility, let's say, or
Speaker 1: let's say you're eighteen years old, you're living with your parents,
Speaker 1: and your parents have very strong political views, maybe even
Speaker 1: different from yours. If you get the ballot in the mail,
Speaker 1: you don't really have a secret ballot because if there's
Speaker 1: someone domineering in the house that you live in, they
Speaker 1: can say we're doing it together, or do it in
Speaker 1: front of me, and they can make sure you vote
Speaker 1: the quote unquote right way.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: But this is not quite assistant living, just so low
Speaker 5: cost housing so to speak for mostly a foreigner immigrants, OK,
Speaker 5: like my parents. They're supposed to come over there as
Speaker 5: to show them properly to fill out the phone like you, well,
Speaker 5: you signed it, you know, or you open it, but
Speaker 5: you don't market.
Speaker 1: All For Democrats, they're supposed to be able to vote
Speaker 1: for who they want to vote for.
Speaker 5: Exactly. But they told them to use this sample with
Speaker 5: already has a muck on it. And I said, including
Speaker 5: proposition and I and I told them. I said, this
Speaker 5: is wrong, and my mom said, well, that's why they
Speaker 5: told us to fill out. So this is why we
Speaker 5: fill out. I say every year, they're doing this.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for the call, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two two two five two two two is
Speaker 1: the telephone number one. Eight hundred two two two five
Speaker 1: two two two. We'll take more of your phone calls,
Speaker 1: and former Senator Melissa Melendez joins us, don't you go
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