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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LeRose is dropping.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
By sounds like we need to build an arc based
on what I just heard.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, I'm sure you experienced some of it. Last night.
We were talking about my dog, who's a Jack Russell
named Esther, and she's looking at me, She's looking at
the window. She's looking at me, looking at the window,
looking at me, looking at the window. I'm not reacting.
Finally she just puts her head back down and that
was basically it. And I was like, man, we are fortunate.
(00:27):
I know you have dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I have, Yeah, we've got a little Golden Retriever. But
what was keeping me up last night was my kids.
They kept getting out of bed and saying, I think
I hear something. Should we go to the basement. And
I would check the weather forecast and I would say,
go ahead to sleep. I'll take you to the basement
when I'm ready, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So, And luckily it never elevated. Y that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah. So we have a Tuesday, May six primary election
is coming up, and a lot of people may be
going what an election? Can we just do that?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I thought, So talk to us about what this is
going to entail? Because it's always a lot of questions
people have. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
May six is the primary, and believe it or not,
it's already underway for overseasoned military voters. That started just
a couple of weeks ago. We started mailing out those
absente ballots for our overseason military voters. Listen, elections have consequences.
We just had a presidential election. We ran another honest
one in Ohio. We had massive turnout and and now
(01:27):
President Trump's doing the things that he campaigned on, and I'm,
for one happy to see that. But local elections really
matter too, And in fact, you know, we all think
a lot about who's going to live in the White
House every four years, but who works at the courthouse
and who works at the schoolhouse and who works at
city hall. That has probably a bigger impact on our
daily life. Those are the questions that we answer in
(01:49):
years like twenty twenty five. And so, you know, we
have an important election and there's no reason to sit
it out. We make it really easy in Ohio. We
make it honest too by taking the dead people off
the vote roles and making sure only citizens can can
go to that. But we make it easy to, and
so you go to our website vote Ohio dot gov.
If you're not registered, you still got time. You got
(02:09):
another week before the deadline comes up, so you get
registered to vote, or maybe update your registration if your
name changed or you moved, whatever. If you got an
eighteen year old in your family just turned eighteen or
going to turn eighteen before May six, get them registered
to vote a Votehio dot gov. And then while you're there,
you can find out what's going to be on your ballot.
One thing statewide is a bond issue. The state legislature
(02:30):
has to ask the people permission to borrow money for
infrastructure projects. It's the pretty routine thing that happens every
decade or so. And so that's going to be on
the state wide ballot. But then local issues that really matter,
maybe a local levy, are a changed to your city charter,
or maybe again something like candidates for local office. The
primaries come up and may so important decisions to make.
(02:52):
And check it out all at vote Ohio dot go.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
People reaching out to your office based on last week, Well, yeah,
about the executive order and what President Trump is saying.
And you know, Chuck and I talked about it on there.
It's like, really, there's not a whole lot changing as
far as I go. This much, this pretty much was
already implemented. Most of the stuff except for the last
day you could actually vote would be on election day.
(03:18):
Imagine that. But I don't know how that's gonna all
play out. But it's got a lot of people going,
this is disenfranchising voter.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I had the same entire stuff. I mean, I'll
tell you what. When I got that executive order, we
knew the president was working on something. And when we
got that executive order, I spun up a quick teams
meeting with my team and we went through it and
we're like, well, wait a second, we already do this.
We already do that. We already did. So the vast
majority of the things in this presidential Executive Order, Ohio
already does, and so great news. Ohio's been a leader
(03:49):
in the country for a long time. There are a
few things in there that we don't yet do but
would need the permission of our state legislature to do.
So I've packaged up some of that and send it
over to our state legislature. I'm about to do that
to say, hey, if we want to make these changes,
then we can do that. And then there are a
couple in there that Listen, this is going to be
the subject of a bunch of litigation. People are going
to sue, and we'll see how that turns out going forward.
(04:11):
But I for one, am appreciative that the president is
taking some leadership when it comes to protecting our elections
and really getting other states to hopefully follow Ohio's good lead.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do we say the stupidity for the rest of the
country or do you confront people? People confront you in
the state of Ohio with that guarbye.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Id defoll why I had to be a citizen to vote?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Do you get that crappy? Here? Are we smarter than that?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Occasionally, I'll tell you what I get sued a lot.
I've been sued eight times just in the last year.
We won all of those lawsuits, thankfully. Those are leftist
groups that are trying to change the rules. They want
to change the election laws at the courthouse instead of
the state house. That's not how it's supposed to work.
But here's the thing. The liberals constantly say that I
am trying to suppress the vote. Listen, guys, if I'm
(04:57):
trying to suppress the vote. I stink at it, terrible
at it. Here's what I mean. We're not trying to
suppress anything. We're just trying to keep it honest. We
had record turnout in twenty twenty, record turnout in twenty
twenty two, and record turnout in twenty twenty four. We've
broken records every election that I've run as Secretary of State,
and yes we've kept them honest. So if I'm trying
to suppress the vote, I'm terrible at it. Of course,
that's not what we want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's been it really has been really good to watch
the way that it's played out. Kind of to your
point with regard to, you know, breaking the records and
record turnout and so on.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Here's the thing. Honest elections drive turnout. Election integrity drives turnout.
People want to know that what they're participating in is
a legit election, and so this thing about making the
elections honest suppresses the vote. Know the opposite. People want
to participate in an election when they know it's going
to be an honest one, and that's what we've given
them in Ohio. By the way, happy to say that
(05:52):
people from my party have done pretty well in massive
turnout elections with an honest elections administration in our state.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Once again, people that are going, oh, we have a
primary election coming up Tuesday, May sixth, Where can they
go to find out exactly where and what to vote?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All about? All the infos at vote ohio dot gov.
And it's so localized. You may have one thing on
your ballot and then two blocks away your neighbor may
be in a different precinct reward and have something different.
So check it all out at vote Ohio dot gov.
Now's the time you can request that abstey ballot if
you want to vote from your own kitchen table, especially
in years like twenty twenty five, you can do your
own research right there at the table. You can mail
(06:30):
your ballot in after casting a really informed ballot, because
we're just going to mail it to you and you
can do your research and prove your ID and mail
it back in and track it at vote Ohio dot
gov to make sure it's received by your board of Elections.
So all the information right there on our website, Vote
Ohio dot gov.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Very good, All right, Secretary of State, Frank LeRose, Frank,
thank you very much, for stopping by. I know you
were in the building doing some stuff and we tricky
into coming in here. We appreciate wandering.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The halls without a hall pass. You never know what
will happen.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Thanks brother, good to see you, Thank you for coming in.
Share it.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LeRose is dropping.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
By sounds like we need to build an arc based
on what I just heard.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Well, I'm sure you experienced some of it. Last night.
We were talking about my dog, who's a Jack Russell
named Esther, and she's looking at me, She's looking at
the window. She's looking at me, looking at the window,
looking at me, looking at the window. I'm not reacting.
Finally she just puts her head back down and that
was basically it. And I was like, man, we are fortunate.
(00:27):
I know you have dogs.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I have, Yeah, we've got a little Golden Retriever. But
what was keeping me up last night was my kids.
They kept getting out of bed and saying, I think
I hear something. Should we go to the basement. And
I would check the weather forecast and I would say,
go ahead to sleep. I'll take you to the basement
when I'm ready, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So, And luckily it never elevated. Y that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah. So we have a Tuesday, May six primary election
is coming up, and a lot of people may be
going what an election? Can we just do that?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I thought, So talk to us about what this is
going to entail? Because it's always a lot of questions
people have. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
May six is the primary, and believe it or not,
it's already underway for overseasoned military voters. That started just
a couple of weeks ago. We started mailing out those
absente ballots for our overseason military voters. Listen, elections have consequences.
We just had a presidential election. We ran another honest
one in Ohio. We had massive turnout and and now
(01:27):
President Trump's doing the things that he campaigned on, and I'm,
for one happy to see that. But local elections really
matter too, And in fact, you know, we all think
a lot about who's going to live in the White
House every four years, but who works at the courthouse
and who works at the schoolhouse and who works at
city hall. That has probably a bigger impact on our
daily life. Those are the questions that we answer in
(01:49):
years like twenty twenty five. And so, you know, we
have an important election and there's no reason to sit
it out. We make it really easy in Ohio. We
make it honest too by taking the dead people off
the vote roles and making sure only citizens can can
go to that. But we make it easy to, and
so you go to our website vote Ohio dot gov.
If you're not registered, you still got time. You got
(02:09):
another week before the deadline comes up, so you get
registered to vote, or maybe update your registration if your
name changed or you moved, whatever. If you got an
eighteen year old in your family just turned eighteen or
going to turn eighteen before May six, get them registered
to vote a Votehio dot gov. And then while you're there,
you can find out what's going to be on your ballot.
One thing statewide is a bond issue. The state legislature
(02:30):
has to ask the people permission to borrow money for
infrastructure projects. It's the pretty routine thing that happens every
decade or so. And so that's going to be on
the state wide ballot. But then local issues that really matter,
maybe a local levy, are a changed to your city charter,
or maybe again something like candidates for local office. The
primaries come up and may so important decisions to make.
(02:52):
And check it out all at vote Ohio dot go.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
People reaching out to your office based on last week, Well, yeah,
about the executive order and what President Trump is saying.
And you know, Chuck and I talked about it on there.
It's like, really, there's not a whole lot changing as
far as I go. This much, this pretty much was
already implemented. Most of the stuff except for the last
day you could actually vote would be on election day.
(03:18):
Imagine that. But I don't know how that's gonna all
play out. But it's got a lot of people going,
this is disenfranchising voter.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, I had the same entire stuff. I mean, I'll
tell you what. When I got that executive order, we
knew the president was working on something. And when we
got that executive order, I spun up a quick teams
meeting with my team and we went through it and
we're like, well, wait a second, we already do this.
We already do that. We already did. So the vast
majority of the things in this presidential Executive Order, Ohio
already does, and so great news. Ohio's been a leader
(03:49):
in the country for a long time. There are a
few things in there that we don't yet do but
would need the permission of our state legislature to do.
So I've packaged up some of that and send it
over to our state legislature. I'm about to do that
to say, hey, if we want to make these changes,
then we can do that. And then there are a
couple in there that Listen, this is going to be
the subject of a bunch of litigation. People are going
to sue, and we'll see how that turns out going forward.
(04:11):
But I for one, am appreciative that the president is
taking some leadership when it comes to protecting our elections
and really getting other states to hopefully follow Ohio's good lead.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Do we say the stupidity for the rest of the
country or do you confront people? People confront you in
the state of Ohio with that guarbye.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Id defoll why I had to be a citizen to vote?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Do you get that crappy? Here? Are we smarter than that?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Occasionally, I'll tell you what I get sued a lot.
I've been sued eight times just in the last year.
We won all of those lawsuits, thankfully. Those are leftist
groups that are trying to change the rules. They want
to change the election laws at the courthouse instead of
the state house. That's not how it's supposed to work.
But here's the thing. The liberals constantly say that I
am trying to suppress the vote. Listen, guys, if I'm
(04:57):
trying to suppress the vote. I stink at it, terrible
at it. Here's what I mean. We're not trying to
suppress anything. We're just trying to keep it honest. We
had record turnout in twenty twenty, record turnout in twenty
twenty two, and record turnout in twenty twenty four. We've
broken records every election that I've run as Secretary of State,
and yes we've kept them honest. So if I'm trying
to suppress the vote, I'm terrible at it. Of course,
that's not what we want to do.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's been it really has been really good to watch
the way that it's played out. Kind of to your
point with regard to, you know, breaking the records and
record turnout and so on.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Here's the thing. Honest elections drive turnout. Election integrity drives turnout.
People want to know that what they're participating in is
a legit election, and so this thing about making the
elections honest suppresses the vote. Know the opposite. People want
to participate in an election when they know it's going
to be an honest one, and that's what we've given
them in Ohio. By the way, happy to say that
(05:52):
people from my party have done pretty well in massive
turnout elections with an honest elections administration in our state.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Once again, people that are going, oh, we have a
primary election coming up Tuesday, May sixth, Where can they
go to find out exactly where and what to vote?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
All about? All the infos at vote ohio dot gov.
And it's so localized. You may have one thing on
your ballot and then two blocks away your neighbor may
be in a different precinct reward and have something different.
So check it all out at vote Ohio dot gov.
Now's the time you can request that abstey ballot if
you want to vote from your own kitchen table, especially
in years like twenty twenty five, you can do your
own research right there at the table. You can mail
(06:30):
your ballot in after casting a really informed ballot, because
we're just going to mail it to you and you
can do your research and prove your ID and mail
it back in and track it at vote Ohio dot
gov to make sure it's received by your board of Elections.
So all the information right there on our website, Vote
Ohio dot gov.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Very good, All right, Secretary of State, Frank LeRose, Frank,
thank you very much, for stopping by. I know you
were in the building doing some stuff and we tricky
into coming in here. We appreciate wandering.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The halls without a hall pass. You never know what
will happen.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Thanks brother, good to see you, Thank you for coming in.
Share it.
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