Hans von Spakovsky Explains Why Mail-in Voting Is a Bad Idea

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

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Political figures on the left, ranging from former first lady Michelle Obama to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are calling for the presidential election on Nov. 3 to take place through mail-in voting due to the coronavirus pandemic. Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joins the podcast to explain why mail-in voting could lead to voter fraud. Also on today's show: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the 'worst is over' as NY deaths cross 10,000. The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear 10 oral arguments by telephone in May. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say they won’t let the small business bill go through unless they get other funding demands granted. South Dakota will be the first state to run a statewide clinical trial of a possible coronavirus treatment. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, April 14th. I'm Rachel
0:09.0	Del Judas. And I'm Virginia Allen. Today we talk with Hans Vons Vakoski, a senior legal fellow in the Heritage
0:16.2	Foundation's Edwin Meese the Third Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, and a President
0:21.9	Trump appointee to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election
0:25.9	Integrity. Hans and I discuss the left's push for voting by mail amidst the coronavirus
0:32.4	and how mail-in voting leads to voter fraud.
0:36.2	And don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:41.5	rating on Apple Podcast and encourage others to subscribe.
0:45.5	Now on to our top news. The worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over for New York, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo.
0:58.0	Here's what he had to say during his Monday briefing via MS-BC.
1:03.4	What will happen is there will be points of resolution over time.
1:11.2	What does that mean? There'll be points of resolution. There'll be points where we can say we've accomplished something, we should feel better, we should feel more calm, we should feel more relaxed, and it will be incremental. We're
1:29.9	controlling the spread. We are controlling the spread.
1:34.0	You look at those numbers, you know what it says?
1:35.8	We're controlling the spread.
1:38.4	I was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter what I did. We're past that. If you isolate, if you take the
1:47.2	precautions, your family won't get infected. We can control the spread.
1:53.0	Feel good about that.
1:55.0	Because by the way, we could have gotten to a point where we said we can't control this damn thing.
2:00.0	We can't control it. It's in the air. It gets into your house. It doesn't matter. You close the door. It comes under the door. You could have gotten there. We're not there. Those numbers say we can control the spread.
2:13.0	Feel good about that.
2:15.0	The worst is over.
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