Mark takes your calls!
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get Mark on demand by setting a preset for his podcast on the I Heart Radio app. |
| 0:06.2 | Now back to Mark Simone on WOR. |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, let's take some calls. |
| 0:13.3 | Let's go to Jacob in Queens. |
| 0:15.4 | Jacob, how you doing? |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, good morning. |
| 0:17.6 | How are you? |
| 0:18.0 | Good. |
| 0:19.4 | I, uh, every time I moved in New York City, every apartment I got, I get between 5 and 10 voter stuff for the people who used to live there. |
| 0:29.1 | This year they made a change, but they put a barcode on it. |
| 0:31.9 | So it used to be, if I'd say someone wants to vote on someone else's name, when it used to be the paper method, you would come there and they would look up your name in a book, |
| 0:41.3 | you have to memorize the name. |
| 0:42.3 | Now it's a barcode. |
| 0:43.3 | So they send out before election, they actually send up this booklet with a barcode, |
| 0:48.3 | and you come there and they scan it, and right away the name and the address all populates. |
| 0:52.3 | So you have now a situation where you have millions of these booklets being mailed out before elections, and the people don't even live there. And anybody can just go with all these booklets and vote. You don't even need to memorize the name or anything. Oh, yeah. We have the world's sloppiest voting system here in New York City, deliberately for a lot of reasons. |
| 1:11.2 | It allows for a lot of shenanigans to go on. |
| 1:14.2 | Let's go to Mike and St. James. |
| 1:15.9 | Mike, how you doing? |
| 1:17.9 | Good, Mark. |
| 1:18.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:19.5 | When they want to terminate a late-night comedian host, don't they have to worry about paying him full length of his contract? |
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