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🗓️ 3 November 2021
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The 2020 election was unprecedented, what with the COVID-19 pandemic and controversy over expanded early and mail-in voting.
“There were more lawsuits filed last year before the election trying to change the laws and the rules governing the election process than in any year in our entire history,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow and election expert at The Heritage Foundation.
The political left used the pandemic to try to undo requirements for voter ID and for witness signatures on absentee ballots, von Spakovsky, who oversees Heritage's Election Law Reform Initiative. (The Daily Signal is Heritage's multimedia news organization.)
The question now is: How do we ensure clean and honest elections across America? In his new book with former Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, “Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote,” von Spakovsky addresses the election issues of 2020 and provides solutions with which lawmakers can prevent voter fraud.
Von Spakovsky joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss his new book and why Americans should support safeguarding our elections through measure such as voter ID.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, November 3rd, I'm Doug Blair. |
| 0:11.4 | And I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:13.4 | Over the past year, election integrity has become a fiercely debated issue. |
| 0:19.3 | Controversy over the 2020 election has highlighted the importance of free and fair elections. |
| 0:25.9 | Heritage Foundation election expert and senior legal fellow Hans von Spakowski joins |
| 0:31.5 | the show today to discuss his new book, Our Broken Elections, How the Left Changed |
| 0:37.1 | the Way You Vote. |
| 0:39.3 | Hans explains the issue in our voting system and what lawmakers need to do to ensure the |
| 0:44.8 | integrity of all future elections. |
| 0:48.2 | But before we get to Virginia's conversation with Hans, let's hit the top news stories |
| 0:52.3 | of the day. |
| 1:04.5 | We are recording close to midnight and Republican candidate Glenn Junkin is poised to be the |
| 1:11.0 | next governor of Virginia. |
| 1:13.7 | Junkin faced off against Democrat Terry McCullough, who previously served as Virginia's governor |
| 1:19.6 | from 2014 to 2018. |
| 1:22.5 | Junkin's likely victory is a significant upset for Democrats in Virginia and even across |
| 1:28.8 | the country. |
| 1:30.2 | Virginia has been trending blue for some time. |
| 1:33.2 | In 2017, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam beat Republican candidate Ed Gillespie |
| 1:40.8 | by 9% in 2020 Joe Biden soundly defeated Donald Trump in Virginia earning 10% more of |
| 1:48.8 | the vote. |
| 1:49.8 | But Junkin's likely victory shows Virginia is not the soundly blue state some believed |
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