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Speaker 2: But what are you gonna do about it? The way

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 4: the forty seven Morning Updating. We've got two big stories

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Speaker 4: for you this morning. Donald Trump warned us that there

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Speaker 4: were far too many illegal immigrants in this country and

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Speaker 4: they were costing Americans or lives. We now know that

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Speaker 4: an illegal alien truck driver was behind the fatal U

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Speaker 2: So how did he get his CDL.

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Speaker 2: Each and every day. It's a forty seven morning Update,

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: An illegal truck driver behind a fatal U turn failed

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Speaker 4: the English language tests we're now finding out. At mile

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Speaker 2: Let me say that again.

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Speaker 4: Conservatives and liberals have been raising alarms about the electronic

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Speaker 4: they were vulnerable to tampering and lack the transparency of

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Speaker 4: hand marked paper ballots. Lawsuits were filed seeking to block

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Speaker 4: their use, with election security advocates pointing to risks of

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Speaker 4: hacking and also just basic software flaws. In fact, the

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty HBO documentary Killed Chain, the cyber War in

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Speaker 4: America's elections highlighted potential vulnerabilities and computerized voting, featuring interviews

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Speaker 4: with security experts who warned the machines could be manipulated

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Speaker 4: and most shockingly, leave elections open to interference. Together, democratic lawmakers,

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Speaker 4: advocacy groups, and investigative media have question whether technology base

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Speaker 4: voting undermines public trust. Let me say that again, this

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Speaker 4: is democratic law makers that have been doing this. They

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Speaker 4: were also pressing for greater reliance on paper ballots and

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Speaker 4: robust auditing. So why now would Democrats be against what

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Speaker 4: they've been advocating for. It actually comes down to one

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Speaker 4: simple issue. They hate Donald Trump, and they also don't

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Speaker 4: want admit that maybe Donald Trump is right about a

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Speaker 4: lot of this issue When it comes to election integrity,

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Speaker 4: as to the president. He says he wants transparency. He

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Speaker 4: wants hand counted paper ballots, even if it's slower, to

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Speaker 4: make sure that our elections are meaningful, that people feel

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Speaker 4: like their ballots are being casted and not canceled out

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Speaker 4: by a hacker or a computer. Yes, it may even

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Speaker 4: cost a little bit more money, but is it worth

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Speaker 4: it to know that your vote counts. That's exactly what

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Speaker 4: the President's saying and the legal fight he's wanting to have.

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