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CNN 5 Things

One Thing: The Messy Business of ‘Cleaning’ Voter Rolls

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

As election officials around the country prepare for November’s election, a CNN investigation has found they are already being inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls. The group behind many of the challenges, True the Vote, has long pushed debunked voter-fraud theories. In this episode, we hear how a mobile app has empowered citizens to bring these challenges against their neighbors and look at the impact on regular voters and election administrators.  Guest: Kyung Lah, CNN Senior Investigative Correspondent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The same ones that make the hospital and the prison pillows are the same company

0:06.7

because I know that I've been in both.

0:08.1

Who are they?

0:09.7

At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last month.

0:13.2

Our team ran into Mike Lindel.

0:15.4

He's the CEO of My Pillow.

0:17.6

And he's obsessed with proving that the 2020 election

0:21.1

was stolen and fraudulent, which of course it absolutely was not. 2020 election.

0:25.0

and and protecting the 2024 election.

0:28.0

Here's the new plan.

0:29.3

And honestly, a lot of the stuff he was saying was either bogus or just completely

0:35.2

incomprehensible even for someone like me who follows politics closely but he did

0:39.9

mention something that caught my attention. The dirtiest voter rolls in the country are right here in Wisconsin.

0:47.0

There's 7,100,000 names on the voter rolls, okay?

0:51.0

If every...

0:52.0

Voter rolls, the simple list of who is registered to vote.

0:56.0

These have become a target of conspiracy theorists like Lindell,

1:00.0

and challenges to those lists are already making their way to local election offices around the country.

1:10.0

My guest is CNN Senior Investigative Correspondent Kyung Law.

1:14.0

She has the story of a group launching a mountain of challenges

1:18.0

with the help of an app, burying innocent voters and officials

1:22.0

with paperwork in the process.

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