Election Monitoring and Conspiracies
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Voting is a pretty big deal -- and, around the world, it's also often controversial. Current civilization puts a great amount of weight on the legitimacy of a given election, and it's no surprise that people often call elections into question. Enter the election monitoring industry: a global network of third-party, independent observers who (in theory) get on the ground in a given country, and verify the voting results for the world at large. Yet there's a bag of badgers here... why are so many experts concerned that election monitoring may have become a weapon? What, exactly, are zombie monitors?
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| 0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
| 0:06.7 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
| 0:11.6 | A production of I-Heart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me |
| 0:28.8 | Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control, |
| 0:33.7 | Decant, most importantly, you are you, you are here. |
| 0:37.6 | That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know |
| 0:41.3 | before we begin our exploration this evening if you have some time |
| 0:45.3 | if the spirit so moves you why not drop us a kind review on your podcast platform of |
| 0:51.1 | choice it's a way to vote for us. It's a free vote and as we'll learn |
| 0:56.6 | elections are important. Free and fair elections in iTunes review form. Yes, you thank you for your service. That's why Steve |
| 1:05.1 | Jobs did the whole thing. I mean, elections are kind of a hot topic to say the |
| 1:10.7 | least about it and in some places they can be downright dangerous. |
| 1:15.3 | One of the things that human society has always quarreled with is what we call the peaceful transition of power. |
| 1:23.4 | And here in the United States, |
| 1:27.3 | it seems like we're continually |
| 1:29.2 | in one campaign cycle or another. You know, anybody listening, you probably have received crazy cold |
| 1:38.8 | call text messages proliferating in recent months that just say something in all caps and then also |
| 1:46.3 | donate money to us. I had a lovely lady knock on my door on behalf of her |
| 1:52.3 | husband who's campaigning for state Senate |
| 1:54.8 | here in Georgia and I can't remember the tagline but she left she signed off |
| 1:58.9 | with his like campaign slogan and I thought it was very charming and I you know what I saved the hand |
| 2:03.5 | bill and I'll probably vote for him just because she was so nice. You know I'm |
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