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Speaker 1: Lab Brief, exploring legal issues in the news. And Today

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Law hot student Grasso and Greg Store discuss a

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Speaker 1: vote recount in the United States presidential election, which has

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Speaker 1: already been criticized by several members of Donald Trump's staff.

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Speaker 1: They speak with Josh Douglas, a professor at the University

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Speaker 1: of Kentucky College of Law. Josh, even if there's no

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Speaker 1: smoking gun, is there anything wrong with going through with

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Speaker 1: recounts allowed by law in order to provide certainty, especially

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Speaker 1: when you had an election campaign where there was evidence

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Speaker 1: of hacking and interference by other countries. Well, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: legally wrong with it, and certainly there within their right

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Speaker 1: to request the recount. I think it is concerning that

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Speaker 1: there's continued questions about the legitimacy of the process in

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Speaker 1: the legitimate see of the result. What I fear is

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Speaker 1: that this recount business is taking the focus away from

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Speaker 1: areas where I do think there are actual problems with

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Speaker 1: the election system that need to be fixed. So although

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think the recount is gonna go anywhere. UH,

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Speaker 1: and they're within the rights requested. I think we should

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Speaker 1: be focusing on on bigger problems, Josh. What would we

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Speaker 1: learn from a recount? What how is it that the

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Speaker 1: count may may come out differently the second time around.

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Speaker 1: The recount will be done at the county level in

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Speaker 1: each of the states. Uh. And so take Michigan for example,

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Speaker 1: which uses all paper ballots. Wisconsin is a mix of

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Speaker 1: of all paper and some machines that don't have a

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Speaker 1: paper trail. UM. But they'll basically at the county level,

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Speaker 1: the individual county clerks will go through a process will

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Speaker 1: they will actually recount each of the ballots. In the

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Speaker 1: states that just have electronic quoting machines of the note

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Speaker 1: paper trail, which I think is a big concern. UH,

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Speaker 1: they'll do what they was known as re canvassing and

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Speaker 1: the machines and basically check the tallies on the machines.

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Speaker 1: We'll see the shift of votes some one way or another, UM,

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Speaker 1: not by much, probably numbering in a couple of hundreds UH.

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Speaker 1: In recounts that have been done statewide in the past

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Speaker 1: fifteen years, the margin typically only shifts by a few

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Speaker 1: hundred votes, um. And so you know that's what we're

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Speaker 1: going to learn is a more accurate count done at

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Speaker 1: the county level to declare how many votes each candidate received.

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Speaker 1: And that's Josh Douglass, professor at the University of Kentucky

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Speaker 1: College of Law, speaking with Bloomberg LA host Stun Gross.

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