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Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

My name is Noel.

They call me Ben. We are joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control

Dec. Most importantly, you are you, you are here and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.

We live in interesting times, gentlemen. And it's time that we talk about elections.

Seems basic stuff, right? But they're big, big deal. Even when they are not perfect.

Every year, billions upon billions of dollars go into securing votes, spreading one message,

attacking another, ultimately with the aim of getting, quote unquote, your candidate in office.

In some countries, like in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, elections are more

less rubber stamp. There are formality in other countries, like the US. They are hotly contested.

They are an industry as much as a political process. And here in the States, it is virtually

a guarantee that no matter who wins the presidential election, some part of the population is going to say

that it was rigged. I mean, it's crazy. If you look back over the decades for a long time,

for many years, voters seem to kind of trust the official results, the political system. But over

the recent decades, more and more people are more and more concerned about the legitimacy of this

process. And part of that is due to the increased availability of information, part of it is due to

the spread of new technologies. The best way to look at it or describe it is this. And it's

something I think we had explored a past episode. It is not that there are more skeletons in democracies

closet. It's just now we're able to turn on more lights to search for them. So as we and all of us

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