WEBVTT - Bloomberg Law Brief: States Oppose Election Commission (Audio)

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<v Speaker 1>Well, now it's time for our daily Bloomberg labrare for

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<v Speaker 1>exploring legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg Law

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<v Speaker 1>host Jun Grosso and Greg Sture discussed President Trump's Election

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<v Speaker 1>Integrity Commission, which is being led by Vice President Mike

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<v Speaker 1>Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobac and is

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<v Speaker 1>attempting to stop a voter fraud in America. They speak

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<v Speaker 1>with Josh Douglas, a professor at University of Kentucky School

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<v Speaker 1>of Law, and each personally your professor at Stanford University

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<v Speaker 1>Law School. Is there any problem with the goal of

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<v Speaker 1>trying to gather information from the states about their databases. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>for the most part, we have a very decentralized electoral

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<v Speaker 1>system in the US. We not only decentralized down to

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<v Speaker 1>the state level, but we decentralized further down to the

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<v Speaker 1>local level, and so a national database of voters does

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<v Speaker 1>not exist. So what the Kobac Pence Commission is trying

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<v Speaker 1>to do is unprecedented. Um the secretaries of State have

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<v Speaker 1>indicated to Kobac that he the the kind of information

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<v Speaker 1>that he is asking for from the states. Uh if

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<v Speaker 1>they were to provide it would often violate state law

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<v Speaker 1>because he's asked for our real wealth of information from

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<v Speaker 1>about the individual voters. I don't think there is a

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<v Speaker 1>problem legally with assembling a national database of eligible voters

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<v Speaker 1>per se. But the way he's gone about it is

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<v Speaker 1>contradictor to some of the state laws. Josh, what is

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<v Speaker 1>he looking for? Really? Is there another way to do

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<v Speaker 1>what he says he wants to do without getting all

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<v Speaker 1>this information? Well, it's not clear what he really wants

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<v Speaker 1>to do. Um. And that's the problem. And I say

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<v Speaker 1>it's not clear because although he claims should be seeking

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<v Speaker 1>evidence of duplicate registrations or or people voting illegally, um,

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<v Speaker 1>what he's asking for is not the way to do

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<v Speaker 1>that um. And so I think, well, a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people are concerned about is that he's gonna if you

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<v Speaker 1>were to obtain this information, she would to learn what

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<v Speaker 1>we already know, which is that the voter registration roles

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<v Speaker 1>can be bloated for for normal reasons like people die,

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<v Speaker 1>people move, um. And that's not evidence of voter fraud.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the concerns that he's gonna say, well, look

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<v Speaker 1>we have these bloated registration roles, there's voter fraud here

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<v Speaker 1>and that's going to support ever more restrictive voter voting laws.

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<v Speaker 1>And and that's what I think one of the big

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<v Speaker 1>problems is. That's Josh Douglas, a professor at University of

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<v Speaker 1>Kentucky School of Law, and Nate were Silly, your professor

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<v Speaker 1>at Stanford University Law School, speaking at the Bloomberg Law

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