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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How did this come about? A little birdie told me
that you guys had been talking, had gotten the restraining
order at some point during this entire saga, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So we never had to actually get this restraining We
filed to get a restraining order. So initially the subtle
government claimed that they were going to send the election
monitors to eight of our counties, three of them really
large pair just San Antonio, Hughes, Harris and also Dallas
as a Secretary of State issue guidance saying, you know,
they don't have the authority to come in and monitor
(00:32):
our polling locations or our voat counting. And so we
found a lawsuit to stop them, and after and asked
for a temporary restrainer. Over as soon as we did that,
we get a call from part of Justice and they
basically signed off in an agreement saying they would not
showed up our polling locations, that they would not show
up our counting locations. That the most they would do
(00:54):
is is being a parking lot outside of a polling location,
following state law, not within a high our feet of
a pollingfication, just like anybody else is allowed to do
so if you or I could go to that parking lot.
Anybody can go to that park lot, just can't get
within one hundred feet trying to do anything related to
the election. So they're now going to follow our state laws,
(01:14):
and if they decide they want to change their mind,
we'll be right back in court to stop them. We
will go right back and ask for an emergency temporary
restraining order.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
How big of a win is this.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's a big win because it respects state law, it
respects states rights. It says to the federal government, you
can't bully us. You can't force us to do the
things that you want us to do that our citizens
we already have laws for. You can't override those laws.
You too have to follow the rule law. As much
as you try to get around that in other situations
(01:49):
you do get around it, you're not getting around it
in this case.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So now the question is, as far as I mean,
these people were asked to come in by Democrats in
Harris County who already run the elections here. This is
just this is a head scratcher, mister journey General.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I think it's more it's sort of a sign of
force intimidation. We're in control we're watching you, big brothers
watching you. You guys are can't handle your own elections.
We're better at monitoring than you are, and we're going
to be here to make sure that big brother takes
care of all of the stuff that little brother doesn't
have the ability to handle. That's st attitude. They're arrogant, pompous, elitist,
(02:35):
and they think they know better, and they don't even
like the fact that we have laws that are different
than theirs that control our own elections. They want to
control everything.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So I'm going to change subjects slightly, but it's along
the same vein. You guys also have your say tip
line for lack of a better term, but there's a
tip line in case people see some shenanigans. Correct, that's correct,
Tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So that's just designed to because we know voter fraud happened,
we were prosecuting. I think we had over a thousand
counts going before the criminal court. Kriminal feels decided that
it was unconstitutional to the Attorney General to go to court,
which is ridiculous, but that is the way. That's why
we have it set up now. So we we decided
that we wanted people have the opportunity if they saw
(03:23):
something that they thought reflected something that was wrong or
somebody not falling a law, that they had a place
to go to report it, so that whether we could
do something about it or pass it off to somebody else,
we at least do our job of letting the voters
know that they have a place to go to protect
against voter fraud.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How much voter fraud do you think is really going on?
I mean, it's it's something we always ask, but I
don't know if anybody really knows the answer to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, largely we don't know, because you know, there's almost
no states that prosecuted. We were one of the few
I had. When I started in the external judgment, we
had one prosecutor that did it. I realized we had
a lot more of a fraud than people thought, So
we ended up getting the legislature to fund to tell
a four. Those four were very busy prosecuting the voter
fraud we had. Literally they were just booked full of
(04:11):
voter fraud. So voter fraud is a real issue. If
if you actually prosecute it, you actually pursue it, it's
a real issue. So yeah, there's there's there is a
lot of voter fraud across this country. Whether it affects elections,
I mean, that's always a question. I certainly think it
did last time. But mail and bollot fraud. That was
a significant amount of fraud, and unfortunately we were able
(04:32):
to stop it in Texas, but other states did not
do anything about it, so they had problems.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Let me go back to the monitors. Were you surprised.
I don't want to say that they backed down easily,
but I don't think that there's a better term for it.
That you know, as soon as as soon as you
made noise, they're like, okay, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll follow
the law here.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, you know, I think they may actually be a
little concerned at this point abut election. They've been pretty unaccountable,
not pretty very unaccountable. They don't follow laws, they just
ignore them. Even constitutional things they just blow past like
they don't matter because they know they can get a
liberal judge and and and be free from that many times.
But I do think there can they may be concerned
(05:15):
about the what's going on with the voters today that
potentially Donald Trump gets elected and puts somebody in that
position to go back through what was corrupt and what
was not corrupt, and who broke what law and you know,
hold people accountable to that. I think there may be
some of that in their minds as as today is,
(05:36):
you know, here
How did this come about? A little birdie told me
that you guys had been talking, had gotten the restraining
order at some point during this entire saga, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So we never had to actually get this restraining We
filed to get a restraining order. So initially the subtle
government claimed that they were going to send the election
monitors to eight of our counties, three of them really
large pair just San Antonio, Hughes, Harris and also Dallas
as a Secretary of State issue guidance saying, you know,
they don't have the authority to come in and monitor
(00:32):
our polling locations or our voat counting. And so we
found a lawsuit to stop them, and after and asked
for a temporary restrainer. Over as soon as we did that,
we get a call from part of Justice and they
basically signed off in an agreement saying they would not
showed up our polling locations, that they would not show
up our counting locations. That the most they would do
(00:54):
is is being a parking lot outside of a polling location,
following state law, not within a high our feet of
a pollingfication, just like anybody else is allowed to do
so if you or I could go to that parking lot.
Anybody can go to that park lot, just can't get
within one hundred feet trying to do anything related to
the election. So they're now going to follow our state laws,
(01:14):
and if they decide they want to change their mind,
we'll be right back in court to stop them. We
will go right back and ask for an emergency temporary
restraining order.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
How big of a win is this.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It's a big win because it respects state law, it
respects states rights. It says to the federal government, you
can't bully us. You can't force us to do the
things that you want us to do that our citizens
we already have laws for. You can't override those laws.
You too have to follow the rule law. As much
as you try to get around that in other situations
(01:49):
you do get around it, you're not getting around it
in this case.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So now the question is, as far as I mean,
these people were asked to come in by Democrats in
Harris County who already run the elections here. This is
just this is a head scratcher, mister journey General.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I think it's more it's sort of a sign of
force intimidation. We're in control we're watching you, big brothers
watching you. You guys are can't handle your own elections.
We're better at monitoring than you are, and we're going
to be here to make sure that big brother takes
care of all of the stuff that little brother doesn't
have the ability to handle. That's st attitude. They're arrogant, pompous, elitist,
(02:35):
and they think they know better, and they don't even
like the fact that we have laws that are different
than theirs that control our own elections. They want to
control everything.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So I'm going to change subjects slightly, but it's along
the same vein. You guys also have your say tip
line for lack of a better term, but there's a
tip line in case people see some shenanigans. Correct, that's correct,
Tell me a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So that's just designed to because we know voter fraud happened,
we were prosecuting. I think we had over a thousand
counts going before the criminal court. Kriminal feels decided that
it was unconstitutional to the Attorney General to go to court,
which is ridiculous, but that is the way. That's why
we have it set up now. So we we decided
that we wanted people have the opportunity if they saw
(03:23):
something that they thought reflected something that was wrong or
somebody not falling a law, that they had a place
to go to report it, so that whether we could
do something about it or pass it off to somebody else,
we at least do our job of letting the voters
know that they have a place to go to protect
against voter fraud.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
How much voter fraud do you think is really going on?
I mean, it's it's something we always ask, but I
don't know if anybody really knows the answer to.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, largely we don't know, because you know, there's almost
no states that prosecuted. We were one of the few
I had. When I started in the external judgment, we
had one prosecutor that did it. I realized we had
a lot more of a fraud than people thought, So
we ended up getting the legislature to fund to tell
a four. Those four were very busy prosecuting the voter
fraud we had. Literally they were just booked full of
(04:11):
voter fraud. So voter fraud is a real issue. If
if you actually prosecute it, you actually pursue it, it's
a real issue. So yeah, there's there's there is a
lot of voter fraud across this country. Whether it affects elections,
I mean, that's always a question. I certainly think it
did last time. But mail and bollot fraud. That was
a significant amount of fraud, and unfortunately we were able
(04:32):
to stop it in Texas, but other states did not
do anything about it, so they had problems.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Let me go back to the monitors. Were you surprised.
I don't want to say that they backed down easily,
but I don't think that there's a better term for it.
That you know, as soon as as soon as you
made noise, they're like, okay, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll follow
the law here.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Look, you know, I think they may actually be a
little concerned at this point abut election. They've been pretty unaccountable,
not pretty very unaccountable. They don't follow laws, they just
ignore them. Even constitutional things they just blow past like
they don't matter because they know they can get a
liberal judge and and and be free from that many times.
But I do think there can they may be concerned
(05:15):
about the what's going on with the voters today that
potentially Donald Trump gets elected and puts somebody in that
position to go back through what was corrupt and what
was not corrupt, and who broke what law and you know,
hold people accountable to that. I think there may be
some of that in their minds as as today is,
(05:36):
you know, here
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