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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, how about something that's happening in Wisconsin. The Department
of Justice is trying to They're asking a judge to
pause the voter citizenship verification order. With information about this
from Chicago is Fox News Radio reporter Jeff MANASO. Jeff,
thank you so much for joining our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Going to be with you, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I don't know if you've heard the news, but we
had quite an interesting situation as far as the superintendent
of the Des Moines Public Schools where we had a
guy who nice, who was in charge of a school
district where thirty thousand people and the biggest issue was
trying to figure out what his status was. As part
(00:41):
of that, we learned he's actually registered to vote while
being in the legal alien in the state of Maryland. Well,
now it sounds like the state of Wisconsin is also
trying to figure out what this situation is as far
as citizenship for voters as well. Can you explain this
to me?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well, I think we have an answer in the
state of Whisky. It's just there's pushback on our ruling.
So Wisconsin Democrats are pushing back on an order that
would require verification of citizenship of all the states registered voters.
The Attorney General of Wisconsin, his name is Josh Call
He's a Democrat, and he's seeking a stay of a
(01:20):
court order that would require verification of citizenship of all
three point six million Wisconsin voters and to have that
done before the next state of wide election in February.
This order stems from a suit that accused the state
of failing to investigate unlawful voter registrations and not taking
(01:40):
steps to ensure that non citizens are not voting. So
non citizens are given as one of those states where
they're given IDs the very very bottom of the id
and really timy letters that says not ballot for federal elections.
But those ideas are only as good as or the
rules are only as good as the people at the
(02:01):
polls that might stop them. Also, you know, Republicans contend
this is an issue for the US census as well
in the allotment of congressional districts. And so there was
there's a judge in waukeshak County, just west of Milwaukee
that ruled the last week Emory that that the Elections
(02:21):
Commission in the state is violating state and federal statutes
by maintaining an election system that potentially allows individuals onto
the voter rolls who may not lawfully be entitled to
cast votes. In Wisconsin, he says that the Wisconsin Elections
Commission is failing its most basic task of ensuring that
only lawful voters make it to the voter roles and
(02:43):
are allowed to vote. So I think based on this language,
we can kind of guess to where he might rule
on this motion. We'll say, stay tuned on that. But
but what call is saying the Attorney General is is
that this is an arduous task. This is you know,
citizenship verification on voter rules. It would require a major
(03:04):
overhaul a voter registration that could take months. And so
Republicans are already saying, Okay, he's going to slow walk
this thing no matter what. So we'll see. But you know,
this also comes as the Trump administration has also sought
voter records from at least twenty six states, including Wisconsin.
In its efforts, it says to crack down on voter
(03:25):
fraud and non citizen and non citizens voting.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Jeff and also joining us here, So and I know Wisconsin,
it's they've had contentious votes for their Supreme Court justices
as well, because they do elections for those. But this
could be something that you know, a lot of states
are kind of looking at and trying to figure out
because this has been over the last handful of years
such a big contentious issue. Can we trust our voting
(03:51):
system in every state having their own rules as it
relates to voter identification and voter rules and eligibility seems
to create quite a bit of chaos when we go
into national elections. And I know that we don't have
a ton of huge things that are going to be
voted on nationwide here this November, but already looking ahead
(04:13):
to the midterms, Jeff, I know this is going to
be a topic that's going to get brought back up
in locales all over the country. How important is what
we see here and how important is it for the
rest of the country to take note of what you know,
whether it's slope or whether it's an actual solution, and
what can be implemented in other states to try to
make people feel confident in the system.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean, look, confidence you've got. You've got two
sides of the aisle that are saying two different things
and blasting each other. So confidence who knows. I guess
it depends on you know, what what you're what, what
team you're playing for, but in what the rules are
that that are implemented, because everything's folticized these days. But
(04:58):
you know, if you if you look at Wisconsin alone,
you know, there are said to be boards of one
hundred thousand illegals living in the state. And if you
look at the last several federal elections, the president presidency
was won by less than one percent of vote. Uh.
And so for for some this is really important to
weed out to make sure that that you know, there's
(05:21):
there's you know, the people who are voting are legally
able to vote. But you know, I think I'm more
interested to see what what the president does because he's
vowed to change some things and to you know, shift
some things around in terms of you know, the way
people vote, paper ballots and all that kind of stuff,
and if that's even you know, if he if he's
(05:42):
able to do that. I mean, there's there's so much,
there's so many moving parts to this story ahead of
the midterms, uh, you know, plus the congressional seats added
for the Republicans. What happened to California with those congressional
seats and the Jerry Mandarin and and I mean, it's
just this, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Jeff Banaso from Foxing, he's ready joining us, all right.
So last thing for you, Jeff. As much as I
look at a state like Wisconsin, and like I said,
admittedly I don't know all of the different rules that
they have as it relates to voter citizenship and voter registration,
but I know how immigration is affected. The morning of
the last few weeks with this Ian Roberts superintendent situation,
(06:20):
and how this wasn't caught, how we had I mean,
you had multiple consulting firms in multiple school districts in
the country just missed this guy's visa status as eligibility
to work and his immigration status as a whole. And
the idea that someone like this could fall through the
cracks on such an important job, a three hundred thousand
(06:40):
dollars a year superintendent job for a public school district
and also find a way to make himself eligible to
vote in another state, it really leads me to feel
like there's going to be a lot less confidence in
even our hiring practices. Is there anything that you can
see with these types of discussions, whether it's you know,
(07:01):
ice operations in Chicago or this discussion in Wisconsin about
voter citizenship eligibility. Is there anything that we can kind
of gain and gather from this immediately while we're trying
to come up with a solution and how politics has
kind of affected the way we talk about it in
this country.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah. Look, I mean I'm always a bit of a skeptic,
and I generally believe nothing of of what I hear
and only half of what I see. And you know,
did this guy slip through the crack? I'm not so sure.
You know, there are questions about about who knew about
who knew what I've seen some some some social media
(07:39):
posts from random people that are saying, you know, we
should probably look into this guy and this is this
is this is from you know, a while back, in
terms of his status. So I think people might have known,
but we'll see, I mean confident, maybe accountability should should
should come if there's any wrongdoing and and look at
people should It's so weird, it's so weird emery because
(08:02):
it's like, you know, we we we should want, we
should want things to be kind of you know, lights
and correct and true, but you know, it seems like
we live in a day and age where it's the
outcome that's the only thing that matters, no matter what.
And so I'm not sure that you know, the confidence
(08:25):
level is going to go. You know, it's gonna be
great on on either side. But I think it's safe
to say, with the new administration tackling the issue, that
that some changes are going to be made in our
voting system no matter what. And you know what those are.
I guess we'll all find out together.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Jeff and also a reporter from Fox News Radio. Always
great to talk to you, Jeff, Thanks so much for
the information today, and we'll chat
Speaker 2 (08:53):
To you you two
Well, how about something that's happening in Wisconsin. The Department
of Justice is trying to They're asking a judge to
pause the voter citizenship verification order. With information about this
from Chicago is Fox News Radio reporter Jeff MANASO. Jeff,
thank you so much for joining our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Going to be with you, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I don't know if you've heard the news, but we
had quite an interesting situation as far as the superintendent
of the Des Moines Public Schools where we had a
guy who nice, who was in charge of a school
district where thirty thousand people and the biggest issue was
trying to figure out what his status was. As part
(00:41):
of that, we learned he's actually registered to vote while
being in the legal alien in the state of Maryland. Well,
now it sounds like the state of Wisconsin is also
trying to figure out what this situation is as far
as citizenship for voters as well. Can you explain this
to me?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, well, I think we have an answer in the
state of Whisky. It's just there's pushback on our ruling.
So Wisconsin Democrats are pushing back on an order that
would require verification of citizenship of all the states registered voters.
The Attorney General of Wisconsin, his name is Josh Call
He's a Democrat, and he's seeking a stay of a
(01:20):
court order that would require verification of citizenship of all
three point six million Wisconsin voters and to have that
done before the next state of wide election in February.
This order stems from a suit that accused the state
of failing to investigate unlawful voter registrations and not taking
(01:40):
steps to ensure that non citizens are not voting. So
non citizens are given as one of those states where
they're given IDs the very very bottom of the id
and really timy letters that says not ballot for federal elections.
But those ideas are only as good as or the
rules are only as good as the people at the
(02:01):
polls that might stop them. Also, you know, Republicans contend
this is an issue for the US census as well
in the allotment of congressional districts. And so there was
there's a judge in waukeshak County, just west of Milwaukee
that ruled the last week Emory that that the Elections
(02:21):
Commission in the state is violating state and federal statutes
by maintaining an election system that potentially allows individuals onto
the voter rolls who may not lawfully be entitled to
cast votes. In Wisconsin, he says that the Wisconsin Elections
Commission is failing its most basic task of ensuring that
only lawful voters make it to the voter roles and
(02:43):
are allowed to vote. So I think based on this language,
we can kind of guess to where he might rule
on this motion. We'll say, stay tuned on that. But
but what call is saying the Attorney General is is
that this is an arduous task. This is you know,
citizenship verification on voter rules. It would require a major
(03:04):
overhaul a voter registration that could take months. And so
Republicans are already saying, Okay, he's going to slow walk
this thing no matter what. So we'll see. But you know,
this also comes as the Trump administration has also sought
voter records from at least twenty six states, including Wisconsin.
In its efforts, it says to crack down on voter
(03:25):
fraud and non citizen and non citizens voting.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Jeff and also joining us here, So and I know Wisconsin,
it's they've had contentious votes for their Supreme Court justices
as well, because they do elections for those. But this
could be something that you know, a lot of states
are kind of looking at and trying to figure out
because this has been over the last handful of years
such a big contentious issue. Can we trust our voting
(03:51):
system in every state having their own rules as it
relates to voter identification and voter rules and eligibility seems
to create quite a bit of chaos when we go
into national elections. And I know that we don't have
a ton of huge things that are going to be
voted on nationwide here this November, but already looking ahead
(04:13):
to the midterms, Jeff, I know this is going to
be a topic that's going to get brought back up
in locales all over the country. How important is what
we see here and how important is it for the
rest of the country to take note of what you know,
whether it's slope or whether it's an actual solution, and
what can be implemented in other states to try to
make people feel confident in the system.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I mean, look, confidence you've got. You've got two
sides of the aisle that are saying two different things
and blasting each other. So confidence who knows. I guess
it depends on you know, what what you're what, what
team you're playing for, but in what the rules are
that that are implemented, because everything's folticized these days. But
(04:58):
you know, if you if you look at Wisconsin alone,
you know, there are said to be boards of one
hundred thousand illegals living in the state. And if you
look at the last several federal elections, the president presidency
was won by less than one percent of vote. Uh.
And so for for some this is really important to
weed out to make sure that that you know, there's
(05:21):
there's you know, the people who are voting are legally
able to vote. But you know, I think I'm more
interested to see what what the president does because he's
vowed to change some things and to you know, shift
some things around in terms of you know, the way
people vote, paper ballots and all that kind of stuff,
and if that's even you know, if he if he's
(05:42):
able to do that. I mean, there's there's so much,
there's so many moving parts to this story ahead of
the midterms, uh, you know, plus the congressional seats added
for the Republicans. What happened to California with those congressional
seats and the Jerry Mandarin and and I mean, it's
just this, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Jeff Banaso from Foxing, he's ready joining us, all right.
So last thing for you, Jeff. As much as I
look at a state like Wisconsin, and like I said,
admittedly I don't know all of the different rules that
they have as it relates to voter citizenship and voter registration,
but I know how immigration is affected. The morning of
the last few weeks with this Ian Roberts superintendent situation,
(06:20):
and how this wasn't caught, how we had I mean,
you had multiple consulting firms in multiple school districts in
the country just missed this guy's visa status as eligibility
to work and his immigration status as a whole. And
the idea that someone like this could fall through the
cracks on such an important job, a three hundred thousand
(06:40):
dollars a year superintendent job for a public school district
and also find a way to make himself eligible to
vote in another state, it really leads me to feel
like there's going to be a lot less confidence in
even our hiring practices. Is there anything that you can
see with these types of discussions, whether it's you know,
(07:01):
ice operations in Chicago or this discussion in Wisconsin about
voter citizenship eligibility. Is there anything that we can kind
of gain and gather from this immediately while we're trying
to come up with a solution and how politics has
kind of affected the way we talk about it in
this country.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah. Look, I mean I'm always a bit of a skeptic,
and I generally believe nothing of of what I hear
and only half of what I see. And you know,
did this guy slip through the crack? I'm not so sure.
You know, there are questions about about who knew about
who knew what I've seen some some some social media
(07:39):
posts from random people that are saying, you know, we
should probably look into this guy and this is this
is this is from you know, a while back, in
terms of his status. So I think people might have known,
but we'll see, I mean confident, maybe accountability should should
should come if there's any wrongdoing and and look at
people should It's so weird, it's so weird emery because
(08:02):
it's like, you know, we we we should want, we
should want things to be kind of you know, lights
and correct and true, but you know, it seems like
we live in a day and age where it's the
outcome that's the only thing that matters, no matter what.
And so I'm not sure that you know, the confidence
(08:25):
level is going to go. You know, it's gonna be
great on on either side. But I think it's safe
to say, with the new administration tackling the issue, that
that some changes are going to be made in our
voting system no matter what. And you know what those are.
I guess we'll all find out together.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Jeff and also a reporter from Fox News Radio. Always
great to talk to you, Jeff, Thanks so much for
the information today, and we'll chat
Speaker 2 (08:53):
To you you two
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