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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Particularly Michigan here, they've got a right to see and
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I supposed to be sent this information.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So listen, they absolutely have the right to see them.
And the fact that they're playing nice and they're only
suing civilly and not criminally, she's very lucky and she
should give them exactly what they're asking for. Now, she's
trying to tell voters that, oh, this is violating laws
and I have to breach their privacy. That's not true.
They want to see the voter lists, and what they
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want to see is they want to see names, they
want to see data birth, they want to see ballot
tracking numbers, and they want to see the ballot I
V numbers, and they want to see that those numbers
match up to the voter that they say that they
belong to. And they want to see that there's not
duplicate voters, dead voters, non citizen voters, all these ineligible voters.
Because we have eight point four million voters on our
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voter roles, but we only have seven point nine million
eligible voting citizens of age in this state. So it's
a big problem. So she's pletely trying to deflect.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, So that to me, I think the clearest way
of looking at this is we need to make sure
that who these people are is exactly who they say
they are. There's no way to do that if we
don't have the data to be able to do it.
I think the federal government's got quite a case here.
But again, this is just another example, sad as it is,
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of the state of our election integrity or lack thereof
here in Michigan, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Lack thereof is exactly right. Our
voterals are a mess. She's completely She weaponized COVID when
we had COVID at the time, and you took advantage
of absentee ballots. She's not violating the laws, or excuse me,
she's not following the law. She's constantly violating, and she's
constantly trying to hide information. She won't even give our
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state legislature access to training material. She's been subpoena for that.
She's been sued for violating the rights of poll challengers.
She's been sued for relaxing signature verification on ballots. She's
done everything she possibly can to weaken election integrity. She's
currently trying to change administrative laws. She wants to go
around state legislature, go directly to Jcarr and change rules
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that way for the upcoming twenty sixth election. She's not
done a single thing to strengthen election in Tigary. She's
done everything she can to week in it. And the
fact that she's the chief election officer of the state
right now and overseeing the elections while she's running as
a gubernatorial candidate, that's not okay.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I think that's maybe one of the most disturbing and
it reminds me of Katie Hobbson in Arizona. That she
would go ahead with the track record that she has
said she would go ahead and oversee her own election
is disturbing. What do we got to do to get
things back on track? Monica Uttuma here, candidate for Michigan
Secretary of State. As a Republican.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Listen, Michigan families deserve fair elections that and services that
actually work right. What we need to do first and
foremost is we need to work really hard for this
upcoming election. But between now and then, we need to
hold her accountable for every single thing that she's doing.
She needs to know that there are eyes on her
and that we are watching her, and that is twenty
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six when she's gone and we replaced her with a
Republican candidate, hopefully me. We can get in there. We
can clean up those voter rules, we can secure our
fs and tee ballots. We can make sure our poll
challengers and our campaign observers rights are not being violated.
They have the rights to over their rights to oversee
elections so that we have transparency and accountability in our elections.
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So there's a lot of things that we can be doing,
but most importantly, we need to make sure that we
have a secretary of State in office that is going
to follow the law and give instructions to our election officials,
including clerks, that is following the law, because she's not
doing that right now.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Monica Ytuma running for Secretary of State here in Michigan
as a Republican. Hey, a big straw poll results came
in from Mackinaw Island and the my GOP Leadership conference
this weekend. Congratulations you top in that poll there. What
are you hearing from folks after you've made this announcement, Well,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
First and foremost, I'm hearing that folks are really excited
to have me as a candidate. I think for a
long time there's been this notion that, you know, the
Republican nominee or any nominee needs to have Clark experience,
and you know, we're learning that's just that's not the case, right,
because I've been involved in a lot of you know, different,
a wide array of issues with election integrity. I run
my own business. I've started a five to one C
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three of five to one C four from scratch, so
I've managed budgets, multiple budgets at one time. I manage people,
So I think or not, I think I'm being told
these delegates are really excited to have somebody with my
business leadership experience, but they're really excited to have somebody
with a backbone that they can trust, that they know
doesn't just have the experience to get in there and
fix things, but to get in there and do what
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they say they're going to do. Because when I get
in there, I'm going to fix what needs to be fixed.
But not just that. Anybody, anybody that I catch trying
to weaken our election integrity in any form is going
to be held accountable.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Monica, you too, me.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I get Internet. That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Where can folks find out more info about you online?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Well, they can go to Monica from Michigan dot com.
That's my website. I'm all over social media Monica Yatuma
Official and they also have a Team Monica page as well,
where I post a ton and provide as much information
that I can on everyday issues and everything that's going
on to election integrity.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Monica, thank you for taking the time. Definitely have to
have you back in the future. Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Thanks so much for having me justin you got it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
God blessed