A Week Of Election Integrity Wins

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Ken Cuccinelli, chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, former Virginia Attorney General, and former Acting Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, joins Federalist Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the ongoing Virginia redistricting referendum battle, react to the Supreme Court's decision against race-based gerrymandering, and analyze Democrats' court-packing threats

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour.
0:23.1	I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience
0:28.1	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:31.0	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:35.9	Follow us on X at FBRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you
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0:45.8	Our guest today is Ken Cuchinelli, National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative.
0:52.2	Ken previously served as former Attorney General of Virginia,
0:56.6	deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and, well, he's basically done it all
1:04.8	when it comes to election law. Good morning, sir. Thank you for joining us in this edition of
1:09.3	the Federalist Radio Hour. My pleasure. We have quite a week to get into. As we reported at the Federalist, it has been a
1:18.2	good week for election integrity. But let's begin here. Can I ask you something real quick?
1:24.7	What's going on with your state? Your Commonwealth, I should say. What is going on?
1:29.5	I mean, man, oh, man, for those who thought they were getting a moderate governor in Abigail Spanberger,
1:39.1	boy, were they sold a bad bill of goods. Well, a lot of us knew that she wasn't a moderate.
1:45.9	Sure.
1:46.5	Media, of course, played along.
1:49.0	And, you know, but you don't really need to know much more than that she was one of
1:54.3	the co-sponsors of the Equality Act.
1:57.1	And that, as usual in D.C., don't believe the name, the Affordable Care Act, right?
2:03.7	Not affordable and they don't care.
2:07.8	Same with the Equality Act was targeting religion and religious institutions to completely gut their ability to hire consistent with their own faith.
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