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🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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The Fmr. House Majority Leader and the Founder of Protect Democracy discuss the perils of the 2020 election and Its immediate aftermath
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, and it's, boy, it's getting tense. Now, this show |
0:11.8 | drops on Sunday, and so you're probably maybe listening to it a couple days before election day. Now, about six days ago, |
0:26.3 | Justice Brett Kavanaugh issued an opinion in a 5-3 Supreme Court ruling that barred Wisconsin |
0:34.2 | election officials from counting mail-in ballots that had been received after election |
0:39.7 | day, even though they had been postmarked on or before November 3rd. In his opinion, Kavanaugh wrote |
0:49.2 | that states counting those ballots would create chaos and suspicion of impropriety that can ensue if |
0:57.7 | thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of the |
1:04.3 | election. That's what he wrote. Except as Justice Elena Kagan pointed out, there are no results to flip until all the valid votes are counted, |
1:15.9 | and that nothing could be more suspicious or improper than refusing to tally votes that come in after the clock strikes midnight. |
1:25.9 | By not allowing the votes of people who followed the law and cast their ballot by election |
1:31.3 | day, Kavanaugh wasn't being a Supreme Court justice. |
1:35.4 | He was being a Republican political operative in a costume. |
1:41.6 | Because he knows that as Justice Kagan responded, there's no result until you count all the |
1:48.8 | votes of the people who legally voted by Election Day. |
1:54.6 | But of course, Kavanaugh knows that more Democrats are voting by mail because, well, we believe |
2:00.5 | in science. And since COVID is now |
2:04.0 | peaking in Wisconsin, I think folks would like to use the mail to exercise their most fundamental |
2:11.4 | right as an American, a right that suckers and losers in our armed forces have fought and died for. |
2:18.3 | A lot of Wisconsinites don't want to risk getting sick and maybe end up dying alone, suffocating while thinking, |
2:25.3 | man, I wish Kavanaugh let me vote by mail. |
2:30.3 | It is your right. |
2:32.3 | It is your right to vote by casting a legal ballot by mail. |
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