Josh Findlay – Texas Public Policy Foundation Joins Houston's Morning News

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Josh Finley joins US Texas Public Policy Foundation. This feels
like a setup. Josh, Is this the New York Times
getting us ready for some more election shenanigans.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, I think it's definitely a warning. You know. The
problem is is that in a lot of states they're
just set up to count ballots after election day, and
what we saw in twenty twenty is that there are
big issues with the chain of custody. The longer you
have ballots sitting around, the more questions arise about what
is being done with those ballots. And then frankly, you know,

(00:29):
in the states like Nevada, they accept ballots until Friday
after the election, and so there's a lot of questions
about those ballots getting in on time, regardless of the postmark.
So really, what it is is in a lot of states,
you just have an election system that is set up
to raise questions.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, they set it up after doing it on this
spot in twenty twenty. You know, when they saw the
turnout that was happening on election day and the way
the count was going, all of a sudden, oh, we
have to stop counting, because they knew that they weren't
going to be able to just squeak by apparently. So
now they've codified it into law some of these states

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where they're going to keep on accepting ballots for a
long time.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The problem with twenty twenty was they put in all
of these measures, a lot of times unilaterally by executives,
you know, the governor, the secretary of state, without input
from the legislature. They put these rules in place, and
they didn't have the infrastructure to count all of these
ballots in time. I mean, you remember the images from
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for example, where they had ballots just

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in the election office stacked Florida ceiling. And it went
so terribly in twenty twenty that some of these states decided,
we're going to put this into law, and we're going
to make this the rule all around. A lot of
times you have to ask who benefits from chaos in
an election system like that.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, and there's no real answer to it, because it's
up to the states. Correct, That's exactly right. It is
up to the states.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
You know, a lot of people don't recognize that we
don't have one presidential election. We really have fifty presidential
elections and every state runs its elections under the laws
of its own jurisdiction.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Josh Findley, Texas Public
Policy Foundation, seven twenty six