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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think we have them right, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, all right, Secretary of State Frank LeRose is joining us. Now, Hey, Frank,
welcome to the Mark Blazer Show again. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm doing well, And you know we're a couple of
days into early voting. Things are working smoothly across eighty
eight county boards of elections. Ohiolans are making their voices heard.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, that is that is a that's something when you're
talking about eighty eight counties, you're incredibly busy. But you know,
you can look at that a whole bunch of different ways.
But to hear that everything is going smooth so far
is absolutely perfect. As we know, the final day to
register to vote here in the state of Ohio was Monday.
Early voting here in Ohio started Tuesday, and so it's
(00:39):
great to hear that everything's going smooth so far, because
that was going to be one of my questions, are
you are you running into anything like that? And man,
I again, it's just good to hear that everything's going smooth.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, it's the dedication of the people involved. It's a
huge operation. Think about election day takes about forty thousand
poll workers to run three thousand, five hundred or so
polling locations. Eighty eight boards of elections are conducting early voting.
Something like one hundred and twenty thousand votes have already
been cast between absent vote by mail and early voting
(01:11):
and overseas military voting, and so you know it's running smoothly.
It's Democrats and Republicans working together. Yes, it seems like
in Washington they can't agree to that Nursday, but the
Board of Elections, it's Republicans and Democrats working together. But
they're first and foremost patriots that recognize that we have
a responsibility to make it both easy to vote and
hard to cheat. We don't have to pick one or
(01:33):
the other. Ohio has convenient voting. There's no excuse for
not voting. But we also make an honest I don't
apologize for checking IDs, taking dead people off the voter roles,
and removing non citizens from the voter roles. We're going
to keep doing that, no matter how many people sue
me to try to stop.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How dare you, Secretary of State, try to do that?
Purge the voting of people that are dead and ask
people to show ID that's how how dare you. It's unbelievable,
the fire that you take over that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Dude, it's ridiculous. Would you believe that we've got something
like twenty active lawsuits filed against this right now? They
all show up at the last minute. It's liberal activist groups,
candidly that want to well, they didn't change election laws
at the state House, so they want to try to
do it at the courthouse. The latest one they're trying
to legalize ballot harvesting in Ohio. Literally, that's in front
(02:23):
of the Ohia Supreme Court right now. They're trying to
take away my protections against ballot harvesting. Listen, for decades,
Ohio has prevented ballot harvesting with common sense rules, and
we're going to keep doing it. But that's just two
days ago. We won an important case in federal court
to keep foreign billionaires from funding campaigns in Ohio. Believe
(02:45):
it or not, this issue one campaign is in part
funded by a Swiss billionaire Switzerland, and you know, we're
doing our part to make sure that the laws enforced
in Ohio. We won that lawsuit, thankfully for common sense,
I mean, for heaven's sakes, only Ohioan's only American citizens
should have any any ability to influence how people vote
(03:06):
in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, if we could only stop that, for instance, for
Issue one, and you bring that up. You know, rpchair
Alex treanta Filou was on with me earlier this week
and we were talking about that, how all of this
outside money is financing to the tune of twenty six
thirty million for Issue one and trying to confuse everybody
again with the yes vote. They want the yes and
(03:27):
then you hear all, well, Donald Trump is an endorsed
and no vote and it's you know, it's just again,
it's just confusing for people. But back to what you're
talking about with the funding, the outside funding that comes in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're right, I wish it was illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wish somehow, some way there'd probably be a way
for them to somehow get around it. But look, you
want more roadblocks in place at least to try to
slow it down, if not stop it all together.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, And here's the problem. The Left, including their allies
in you know, the East coast and the West coast,
they've figured out playbook in Ohio. Now. I've tried to
warn about this, we tried to do something about it.
Last year, but it's going directly to the ballot with
constitutional amendments. They know that they're bad ideas will never
see the light of day in our state legislature, so
(04:13):
they're trying to make law by constitutional amendment. That's no
way to run a government. This current amendment Issue one
is thirteen thousand words long. I mean, the entire US
Constitution's only seventy five hundred the entire US Constitution, and
so unfortunately we'll probably see it in future years as well.
(04:37):
I mean, who knows what bad idea. There's an effort
right now to put a question on the ballot next
year to massively increase the minimum wage that would put
small businesses out of work. There's efforts to try to
get rid of a qualified immunity that protects police officers
when they lawfully carry out their duties. It's just the
latest in the bad ideas that are coming to Ohio.
(04:58):
And my hope is that we defeat Issue one, not
only because it's being funded by a bunch of out
of state special interest including a Swiss billionaire, but also
because it requires this unelected, unaccountable group of people to
jerrymander the state. And that's a bad policy for Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Talking to Secretary of State Frank LeRose joining US now
and early voting numbers so far. I know you were
talking about that earlier. The whenever we see like we'll
see on the news at some point here, and it's
all exit polling that you know, conveniently. It seems like
legacy media uses. And I'm sure we're going to be seeing. Yeah,
we're going to be seeing sooner rather than later. Oh,
(05:36):
Donald Trump is getting his butt kicked in Dat da
da and he's losing da da da da, and it's
all exit polls, and that's all convenient.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You can't even corroborate any of that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I guess My question is at any point, I mean,
you can't with the early voting, you're not able to
divulge where that is at as far as the actual
real votes and so on.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is that correct? Like there's laws against that.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
One hundred percent. We count absentee ballots on election night
and those are the first ones we count. It's intuitive
why they're already at the Board of Elections. The envelopes
are cut open, they're flattened out, so they go through
the scanners. We've checked, the signatures checked the IDs ID numbers,
and so at seven point thirty, when the polls close,
we start counting the early votes and the absentee votes.
(06:24):
When you start seeing results at eight fifteen, eight thirty
on election night, those aren't from election day. They're still
getting driven down to the Board of Elections by the
bipartisan team of poll workers. Those are the early votes
in the Abstein votes, but we don't count a single
ballot until election day seven thirty, specifically on election night. Now,
what you can look at is where early voting numbers
(06:45):
are as far as how many people have voted. There's
a lot of tea leaf reading and pronogative prognostication that
happens this time of year, and people will do I
don't engage in that kind of speculation as the chief
Elections officer, but I can tell you, you know, something
like eight hundred thirty thousand abscenty ballots have already been requested.
You know, like I told you, over one hundred and
twenty thousand between early voting and absentee have come back.
(07:09):
It's pretty widely distributed across to Ohio's eighty eight counties,
and people can draw their own conclusions from that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, I'm going to early vote for the first time
ever ever, frank my entire life, I'm fifty five, my
entire voting career has been on election day for the
first time. This year, I am going to early vote
for the first time, not this year, but this election.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean, it's just one of those things. I was
talking about it on the air. We had people calling
in saying, Hey, I was early voting at Franklin County,
here's what I know, experienced, and so on, and we're
having that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Kind of thing. Do you and I I hopefully.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's not too personal to ask, do you wait till
election day yourself to vote, or do you do early voting?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Or have you done both?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah? I've done all three throughout the years. Ohioan's have
three choices. You can vote early at the Board of Elections,
you can vote absentee from your own kitchen, or if
you're a traditionalist, you can wait until election day six
thirty a un till seven thirty pm. I've done all
three This year. My wife and I are mailing in
our absentee ballots. I've already sent in my request. And
(08:11):
by the way, when you do that, you can go
to vote Ohio dot gov slash track and you can
track when the Board of Elections has received the request,
when they've mailed you a ballot, and when you mail
it back you can see that it's arrived at the
Board of Elections. You can have the confidence of knowing.
Here's a pro tip though, one of the great reasons
to vote early. Listen if you haven't made up your
(08:32):
mind yet, if you're still trying to decide, yeah, you
should probably wait. But if you know who you're voting for,
go ahead and get it done, because you're taking off
the contact list. Think about it. The candidates spend a
lot of money sending out mailings, doing text messages. I
know everybody finds those annoying, but the candidates send out
all these things to people that they want to influence.
And so once you've already voted, they get that list
(08:54):
from the Board of Elections, not how you voted, but
the fact that you have voted, and they'll take you
off their contact So you're gonna get less mail and
text messages and phone calls and doors doors knocked hunt
when you when you vote early.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I thought this was interesting, Josh, you were you were
telling me a story before we you know, when we
were talking earlier about when Secretary of State is going
to join us, and you were telling me, like one
of your friends that you were kind of in disbelief
that they had talked about as far as the early registering.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
My friend Chrissy has never voted in her life, and
she's so disgruntled with the world. She asked me, how
do you register to vote? I wouldn't I want to
vote for Donald Trump? And I told her, okay, well,
here's the process, so we got to register to vote.
I'm glad I told her this. I go, did you
get your REGID your card in the mail? And she goes,
(09:44):
what are you talking about. I goes, they're going to
send you a card that has your precinct and your
polling location. She goes, Oh, I thought I could just
go anywhere and vote. It's like, oh, honey, unless it's
the Board of Elections, No, you can't just show up
at random precincts. But it's kind of it's amazing to
me that there are still people society Secretary of State
that don't fully grasp how the process works there in
(10:05):
Ohio and beyond.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yep, yeah, yeah, there's a degree of responsibility that we have.
Voting is a right, it's also a responsibility. You take
the time to educate yourself. You can do that at
our website vote Ohio dot gov and listen. Make your plan,
you know. And I've heard some people on the Republican
side say, well, I'm a traditionalist. I wait until election day.
(10:27):
That's fine if that's what you prefer. But things happen.
Cars break down, kids get sick, life gets in the way,
and I mean, look at people in disaster areas like
in Florida right now. If you have your mind made up,
you might as well go ahead and bank your vote.
It's just as secure. You show your ID, you go
into the Board of Elections, you cast your ballot, you
(10:48):
walk out with your I Voted sticker, and you get
the job done right now and again. If you want
to wait till election day, that's fine too, but just
make your planet vot Ohio dot gov. Here's something we
do with high school students. We want to help educate
students about how this process works. So I go out
to high school. Sometimes we bring the real voting machines
from the Board of Elections and they'll set it up
with maybe letting the kids at the high school vote
(11:09):
on the theme for the next dance or the homecoming
dance or whatever else, and they get to actually experience
what it's like to vote. And it's a good education
for them as well.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Frank, I'll tell you, and you led me right into
this perfectly. My daughter in January of this year turned eighteen,
and so she's just started. She graduated this year from
Berlin High School there in Olan Tangi. We're in an
Olan Tangi school district, and she started LSU. But this
will be her first ever voting this year. She will
(11:40):
be voting for the first time. I've been working on her,
man for like, you know, a few years now. She
gets up and she's getting ready for school. This is
over the the last few years, and she sees me
getting ready for the show and I'm going over all
my stuff in the morning. I've got all this stuff
taped that I go over and kind of start figuring
out what's going to happen. So I've been working on
(12:00):
her to cast the correct ballot, if you know, or
the right ballot, I guess I should say.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So you raise them right and then then you let
them make their own choices. But no, that doesn't some
boards of elections for the early voting, when somebody comes
in and says they're a first time voter, they got
a bell, they ring and they embarrass them in a
good way. So maybe that'll be her experience.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, that's good. I told her I was going earliest,
and hey, haven't a vote earlyer? You want to go
with me?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And she hasn't really decided if she wants to do
that yet or wait or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We're getting a whole bunch of clearly a bunch of
new voters. So it's an exciting time right now. Especially
there's going to be a thing that she'll feel when
she does it that you can't really replicate any any
other way.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I told her about that, so I'm excited to kind
of watch her, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's powerful. I've seen people risk their
lives to vote in places like Iraq and Kosovo where
I've served, and too many of us take it for
granted because it's so routine and run so smoothly. But
here's the deal. We're going to give you the results
on election night. It's going to be fair and honest
and convenient, and almost so much so that you could
take it for granted, but you shouldn't, because it really
(13:10):
does make a difference.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Very good Secretary of State, Frank LeRose, Thanks for taking
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I know you're busy, sir. Thank you very much, appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take care all right,
I think we have them right, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Okay, all right, Secretary of State Frank LeRose is joining us. Now, Hey, Frank,
welcome to the Mark Blazer Show again. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm doing well, And you know we're a couple of
days into early voting. Things are working smoothly across eighty
eight county boards of elections. Ohiolans are making their voices heard.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, that is that is a that's something when you're
talking about eighty eight counties, you're incredibly busy. But you know,
you can look at that a whole bunch of different ways.
But to hear that everything is going smooth so far
is absolutely perfect. As we know, the final day to
register to vote here in the state of Ohio was Monday.
Early voting here in Ohio started Tuesday, and so it's
(00:39):
great to hear that everything's going smooth so far, because
that was going to be one of my questions, are
you are you running into anything like that? And man,
I again, it's just good to hear that everything's going smooth.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, it's the dedication of the people involved. It's a
huge operation. Think about election day takes about forty thousand
poll workers to run three thousand, five hundred or so
polling locations. Eighty eight boards of elections are conducting early voting.
Something like one hundred and twenty thousand votes have already
been cast between absent vote by mail and early voting
(01:11):
and overseas military voting, and so you know it's running smoothly.
It's Democrats and Republicans working together. Yes, it seems like
in Washington they can't agree to that Nursday, but the
Board of Elections, it's Republicans and Democrats working together. But
they're first and foremost patriots that recognize that we have
a responsibility to make it both easy to vote and
hard to cheat. We don't have to pick one or
(01:33):
the other. Ohio has convenient voting. There's no excuse for
not voting. But we also make an honest I don't
apologize for checking IDs, taking dead people off the voter roles,
and removing non citizens from the voter roles. We're going
to keep doing that, no matter how many people sue
me to try to stop.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
How dare you, Secretary of State, try to do that?
Purge the voting of people that are dead and ask
people to show ID that's how how dare you. It's unbelievable,
the fire that you take over that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Dude, it's ridiculous. Would you believe that we've got something
like twenty active lawsuits filed against this right now? They
all show up at the last minute. It's liberal activist groups,
candidly that want to well, they didn't change election laws
at the state House, so they want to try to
do it at the courthouse. The latest one they're trying
to legalize ballot harvesting in Ohio. Literally, that's in front
(02:23):
of the Ohia Supreme Court right now. They're trying to
take away my protections against ballot harvesting. Listen, for decades,
Ohio has prevented ballot harvesting with common sense rules, and
we're going to keep doing it. But that's just two
days ago. We won an important case in federal court
to keep foreign billionaires from funding campaigns in Ohio. Believe
(02:45):
it or not, this issue one campaign is in part
funded by a Swiss billionaire Switzerland, and you know, we're
doing our part to make sure that the laws enforced
in Ohio. We won that lawsuit, thankfully for common sense,
I mean, for heaven's sakes, only Ohioan's only American citizens
should have any any ability to influence how people vote
(03:06):
in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, if we could only stop that, for instance, for
Issue one, and you bring that up. You know, rpchair
Alex treanta Filou was on with me earlier this week
and we were talking about that, how all of this
outside money is financing to the tune of twenty six
thirty million for Issue one and trying to confuse everybody
again with the yes vote. They want the yes and
(03:27):
then you hear all, well, Donald Trump is an endorsed
and no vote and it's you know, it's just again,
it's just confusing for people. But back to what you're
talking about with the funding, the outside funding that comes in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
You're right, I wish it was illegal.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wish somehow, some way there'd probably be a way
for them to somehow get around it. But look, you
want more roadblocks in place at least to try to
slow it down, if not stop it all together.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, And here's the problem. The Left, including their allies
in you know, the East coast and the West coast,
they've figured out playbook in Ohio. Now. I've tried to
warn about this, we tried to do something about it.
Last year, but it's going directly to the ballot with
constitutional amendments. They know that they're bad ideas will never
see the light of day in our state legislature, so
(04:13):
they're trying to make law by constitutional amendment. That's no
way to run a government. This current amendment Issue one
is thirteen thousand words long. I mean, the entire US
Constitution's only seventy five hundred the entire US Constitution, and
so unfortunately we'll probably see it in future years as well.
(04:37):
I mean, who knows what bad idea. There's an effort
right now to put a question on the ballot next
year to massively increase the minimum wage that would put
small businesses out of work. There's efforts to try to
get rid of a qualified immunity that protects police officers
when they lawfully carry out their duties. It's just the
latest in the bad ideas that are coming to Ohio.
(04:58):
And my hope is that we defeat Issue one, not
only because it's being funded by a bunch of out
of state special interest including a Swiss billionaire, but also
because it requires this unelected, unaccountable group of people to
jerrymander the state. And that's a bad policy for Ohio.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Talking to Secretary of State Frank LeRose joining US now
and early voting numbers so far. I know you were
talking about that earlier. The whenever we see like we'll
see on the news at some point here, and it's
all exit polling that you know, conveniently. It seems like
legacy media uses. And I'm sure we're going to be seeing. Yeah,
we're going to be seeing sooner rather than later. Oh,
(05:36):
Donald Trump is getting his butt kicked in Dat da
da and he's losing da da da da, and it's
all exit polls, and that's all convenient.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You can't even corroborate any of that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I guess My question is at any point, I mean,
you can't with the early voting, you're not able to
divulge where that is at as far as the actual
real votes and so on.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Is that correct? Like there's laws against that.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
One hundred percent. We count absentee ballots on election night
and those are the first ones we count. It's intuitive
why they're already at the Board of Elections. The envelopes
are cut open, they're flattened out, so they go through
the scanners. We've checked, the signatures checked the IDs ID numbers,
and so at seven point thirty, when the polls close,
we start counting the early votes and the absentee votes.
(06:24):
When you start seeing results at eight fifteen, eight thirty
on election night, those aren't from election day. They're still
getting driven down to the Board of Elections by the
bipartisan team of poll workers. Those are the early votes
in the Abstein votes, but we don't count a single
ballot until election day seven thirty, specifically on election night. Now,
what you can look at is where early voting numbers
(06:45):
are as far as how many people have voted. There's
a lot of tea leaf reading and pronogative prognostication that
happens this time of year, and people will do I
don't engage in that kind of speculation as the chief
Elections officer, but I can tell you, you know, something
like eight hundred thirty thousand abscenty ballots have already been requested.
You know, like I told you, over one hundred and
twenty thousand between early voting and absentee have come back.
(07:09):
It's pretty widely distributed across to Ohio's eighty eight counties,
and people can draw their own conclusions from that.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, I'm going to early vote for the first time
ever ever, frank my entire life, I'm fifty five, my
entire voting career has been on election day for the
first time. This year, I am going to early vote
for the first time, not this year, but this election.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean, it's just one of those things. I was
talking about it on the air. We had people calling
in saying, Hey, I was early voting at Franklin County,
here's what I know, experienced, and so on, and we're
having that.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Kind of thing. Do you and I I hopefully.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's not too personal to ask, do you wait till
election day yourself to vote, or do you do early voting?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Or have you done both?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah? I've done all three throughout the years. Ohioan's have
three choices. You can vote early at the Board of Elections,
you can vote absentee from your own kitchen, or if
you're a traditionalist, you can wait until election day six
thirty a un till seven thirty pm. I've done all
three This year. My wife and I are mailing in
our absentee ballots. I've already sent in my request. And
(08:11):
by the way, when you do that, you can go
to vote Ohio dot gov slash track and you can
track when the Board of Elections has received the request,
when they've mailed you a ballot, and when you mail
it back you can see that it's arrived at the
Board of Elections. You can have the confidence of knowing.
Here's a pro tip though, one of the great reasons
to vote early. Listen if you haven't made up your
(08:32):
mind yet, if you're still trying to decide, yeah, you
should probably wait. But if you know who you're voting for,
go ahead and get it done, because you're taking off
the contact list. Think about it. The candidates spend a
lot of money sending out mailings, doing text messages. I
know everybody finds those annoying, but the candidates send out
all these things to people that they want to influence.
And so once you've already voted, they get that list
(08:54):
from the Board of Elections, not how you voted, but
the fact that you have voted, and they'll take you
off their contact So you're gonna get less mail and
text messages and phone calls and doors doors knocked hunt
when you when you vote early.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I thought this was interesting, Josh, you were you were
telling me a story before we you know, when we
were talking earlier about when Secretary of State is going
to join us, and you were telling me, like one
of your friends that you were kind of in disbelief
that they had talked about as far as the early registering.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
My friend Chrissy has never voted in her life, and
she's so disgruntled with the world. She asked me, how
do you register to vote? I wouldn't I want to
vote for Donald Trump? And I told her, okay, well,
here's the process, so we got to register to vote.
I'm glad I told her this. I go, did you
get your REGID your card in the mail? And she goes,
(09:44):
what are you talking about. I goes, they're going to
send you a card that has your precinct and your
polling location. She goes, Oh, I thought I could just
go anywhere and vote. It's like, oh, honey, unless it's
the Board of Elections, No, you can't just show up
at random precincts. But it's kind of it's amazing to
me that there are still people society Secretary of State
that don't fully grasp how the process works there in
(10:05):
Ohio and beyond.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yep, yeah, yeah, there's a degree of responsibility that we have.
Voting is a right, it's also a responsibility. You take
the time to educate yourself. You can do that at
our website vote Ohio dot gov and listen. Make your plan,
you know. And I've heard some people on the Republican
side say, well, I'm a traditionalist. I wait until election day.
(10:27):
That's fine if that's what you prefer. But things happen.
Cars break down, kids get sick, life gets in the way,
and I mean, look at people in disaster areas like
in Florida right now. If you have your mind made up,
you might as well go ahead and bank your vote.
It's just as secure. You show your ID, you go
into the Board of Elections, you cast your ballot, you
(10:48):
walk out with your I Voted sticker, and you get
the job done right now and again. If you want
to wait till election day, that's fine too, but just
make your planet vot Ohio dot gov. Here's something we
do with high school students. We want to help educate
students about how this process works. So I go out
to high school. Sometimes we bring the real voting machines
from the Board of Elections and they'll set it up
with maybe letting the kids at the high school vote
(11:09):
on the theme for the next dance or the homecoming
dance or whatever else, and they get to actually experience
what it's like to vote. And it's a good education
for them as well.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Frank, I'll tell you, and you led me right into
this perfectly. My daughter in January of this year turned eighteen,
and so she's just started. She graduated this year from
Berlin High School there in Olan Tangi. We're in an
Olan Tangi school district, and she started LSU. But this
will be her first ever voting this year. She will
(11:40):
be voting for the first time. I've been working on her,
man for like, you know, a few years now. She
gets up and she's getting ready for school. This is
over the the last few years, and she sees me
getting ready for the show and I'm going over all
my stuff in the morning. I've got all this stuff
taped that I go over and kind of start figuring
out what's going to happen. So I've been working on
(12:00):
her to cast the correct ballot, if you know, or
the right ballot, I guess I should say.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So you raise them right and then then you let
them make their own choices. But no, that doesn't some
boards of elections for the early voting, when somebody comes
in and says they're a first time voter, they got
a bell, they ring and they embarrass them in a
good way. So maybe that'll be her experience.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, that's good. I told her I was going earliest,
and hey, haven't a vote earlyer? You want to go
with me?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And she hasn't really decided if she wants to do
that yet or wait or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Man.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We're getting a whole bunch of clearly a bunch of
new voters. So it's an exciting time right now. Especially
there's going to be a thing that she'll feel when
she does it that you can't really replicate any any
other way.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I told her about that, so I'm excited to kind
of watch her, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, yeah, No, it's powerful. I've seen people risk their
lives to vote in places like Iraq and Kosovo where
I've served, and too many of us take it for
granted because it's so routine and run so smoothly. But
here's the deal. We're going to give you the results
on election night. It's going to be fair and honest
and convenient, and almost so much so that you could
take it for granted, but you shouldn't, because it really
(13:10):
does make a difference.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Very good Secretary of State, Frank LeRose, Thanks for taking
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I know you're busy, sir. Thank you very much, appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take care all right,
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