Ep 68 | Does Every Vote Really Count? | Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill

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🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill knows many people in the country think the last election was not legitimate. He knows secure and transparent elections are the foundation of democracy and freedom. By removing 1.3 million invalid voters, John has worked to ensure that Alabama has one of the best voter rolls in the nation. He's taken on activist judges and fought to uphold voter ID laws. He's addressed the problems of the Dominion Voting System and fought nationalized voting laws. He's been sued 22 times and has never lost. But the question remains: "Does every vote really count?" Don't miss this timely and informative episode of Rick & Bubba University. Sponsors: ExpressVPN: The VPN that just works. Enjoy unrestricted access worldwide. ExpressVPN defeats content restrictions and censorship to deliver unlimited access to video, music, social media, and more, from anywhere in the world. Stop letting big tech and big government censor and track you. Defend your rights and protect yourself at https:ExpressVPN.com/RickBubba and get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! Gabi: Gabi takes the pain out of shopping for insurance by giving you an apples-to-apples comparison of your current coverage with 40 of the top insurance providers like: Progressive, Nationwide and Travelers. · Just link your current insurance account and in about two minutes you’ll be able to see quotes for the exact same coverage you currently have. Gabi customers save eight hundred twenty-five dollars per year on average. It’s totally free to check your rate and there’s no obligation. Take two minutes to see how much you can save on your car and homeowners insurance. Go to http://gabi.com/rickbubba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome into another edition of Rick and Bubba University, the podcast, and we thank
0:12.5	you for taking time to be with us.
0:14.9	And Bubba today, we're going to unpack, you know, there's been so many conspiracy theories,
0:23.2	there's been some concern about, you know, if I vote, is my vote counted correctly, is
0:28.5	it legitimate, and plus taking on some of the technology modern day that was used in
0:33.7	the last presidential election, and we're going to try to talk to somebody today that actually
0:37.8	deals with the process of us voting.
0:40.7	Rick, our guest today is John Merrill, he is the Alabama Secretary of State.
0:45.8	He was elected to that post in 2014, reelected in 2018, and just by default, Rick, he has
0:51.8	to be one of the top 50 election officials in the country, but John, I'm going to put
0:55.9	you in the top 10.
0:56.9	I'm going to push you right on up there.
0:58.8	You're so good to me.
1:01.6	So you, we know this for a fact because we live in the state of Alabama, some of you that
1:05.6	are listening to this or watching that, watching this may not know that, you were committed
1:10.8	to kind of getting the people out to vote, to be sure that people were registered to vote.
1:16.4	We participated in that with some other folks here in Alabama.
1:20.2	And first of all, let's talk about that, the state of Alabama, it looks like your campaign
1:26.1	was successful.
1:27.1	Guys, look, y'all know, and we've had many discussions here in the studio on the phone.
1:32.4	Other places, y'all helped with the voter registration drive, voter ID drive.
1:38.0	I made an intentional effort, concerted effort, since I became the secretary, which is six
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