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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, there'll be people watching over this election. Certainly, the
question is who's going to be doing it will be
the States, will be the Feds. Is it going to
take a lawsuit to keep the Feds out of polling locations?
And it could be a mess today. Cindy Sekle joins
us Harris County gop R. Are you concerned about this,
Saint Cindy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
These federal monitors, Well, yeah, they've been here before. I
remember years ago when I first was an election judge,
they showed up and I'd been warned. They showed up
on my Paul and we're basically just you know, checking
to make sure we had Spanish speakers, Mandarin, Chinese, Vietnamese.
(00:44):
But you know, there's really no reason for it. And
this is just a ploy that was used by the
Democrat Party on County property yesterday to just gin up
the fears of their Democrats. And what's interesting is, people,
we need to remember it's been the Democrats controlling how
(01:05):
our elections are run, our voter registration all that. They've
been in control of it for the last five years,
since twenty eighteen. So this was just it's just a
political ploy when the Democrat Party has asked the DOJ
(01:25):
to come in. We've got state observers from the Secretary
of State. I talked to Christina Atkins's works for the
Secretary of State yesterday. She's over in the elections. They've
got observers here that are in their going to the
various polls because they're very aware of what happened in
twenty two. And we've got poll watchers as well as
(01:47):
our Republican election workers at the polls.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, the question though, is Okay, you're watching and you
see an irregularity, and do you have the judges lined
up that are non partisaners supposed to be in order
to make things right? I mean, how many people feel intimidated,
how many people will not be allowed to vote? I mean,
how could this go wrong? There are many ways it
(02:14):
can go wrong, right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, Sharah. I mean we've seen how in twenty two,
how badly it was run. I do think that we've
seen over the last year under the county clerk, Tunisia Hutsbath,
who had actually work for Stan Standard and Beverly Kaufman,
who were Republican county clerks before, run a more smooth election.
(02:38):
But we have a team of attorneys here up at
our headquarters. Additionally, we're working our election attorney is also
working for the RNC Senator Cruz. There's a whole team
attorneys down town that are ready to take action if needed,
and of course the Attorney General Paxton is too. Now
(03:01):
that said, we know the first level in district court
here is a bunch of Democrat judges. So anything that
we would do, any legal action, would ultimately and quickly
have to be appealed. And we've been through this process.
We went through it in twenty two during the primary
(03:22):
as well as a general election and also the May
election that year. We had to take legal action. And
you know, the thing about the elections is that in general,
the Supreme Court, the appellate courts will look at it
immediately because of you know, because it is the election.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I hate to ask you to give a one
word answer, Cindy, but but I will anyway, and that is,
do you think that this election is going to be
fair here in Ariscony. Do you have confidence in the
results that we're going to get? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You're asking a CPA who is never a betting I
don't bet unless I'm ninety nine point nine to nine percent.
Sure do I think the Democrats will try something and
this is not a reflection upon the county clerk. Yes,
whether it's here in Harris County, we've heard rumblings across
(04:17):
the state. I heard I think it was Dallas County.
They were pulling some of the shenanigans they did here
in town. But yeah, but that's why we have pole watchers.
We have more pole watchers placed than we ever have before.
We've got great trained election workers, you know, judges there
(04:38):
and up here at headquarters. We've been here since five
point thirty this morning. We have over a dozen experienced
election workers where our people out in the field can
call if they've got something that they see. I've got
the constables on those speed guy also and as well
as Tanisha Hutsbon doing everything.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You got everybody ready to go just in case. All right,
Thank you, Cindy, appreciate it. Hair's kinding to you a
peach hair. That's Cindy Siegel at six twenty seven
Well, there'll be people watching over this election. Certainly, the
question is who's going to be doing it will be
the States, will be the Feds. Is it going to
take a lawsuit to keep the Feds out of polling locations?
And it could be a mess today. Cindy Sekle joins
us Harris County gop R. Are you concerned about this,
Saint Cindy.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
These federal monitors, Well, yeah, they've been here before. I
remember years ago when I first was an election judge,
they showed up and I'd been warned. They showed up
on my Paul and we're basically just you know, checking
to make sure we had Spanish speakers, Mandarin, Chinese, Vietnamese.
(00:44):
But you know, there's really no reason for it. And
this is just a ploy that was used by the
Democrat Party on County property yesterday to just gin up
the fears of their Democrats. And what's interesting is, people,
we need to remember it's been the Democrats controlling how
(01:05):
our elections are run, our voter registration all that. They've
been in control of it for the last five years,
since twenty eighteen. So this was just it's just a
political ploy when the Democrat Party has asked the DOJ
(01:25):
to come in. We've got state observers from the Secretary
of State. I talked to Christina Atkins's works for the
Secretary of State yesterday. She's over in the elections. They've
got observers here that are in their going to the
various polls because they're very aware of what happened in
twenty two. And we've got poll watchers as well as
(01:47):
our Republican election workers at the polls.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, the question though, is Okay, you're watching and you
see an irregularity, and do you have the judges lined
up that are non partisaners supposed to be in order
to make things right? I mean, how many people feel intimidated,
how many people will not be allowed to vote? I mean,
how could this go wrong? There are many ways it
(02:14):
can go wrong, right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yeah, Sharah. I mean we've seen how in twenty two,
how badly it was run. I do think that we've
seen over the last year under the county clerk, Tunisia Hutsbath,
who had actually work for Stan Standard and Beverly Kaufman,
who were Republican county clerks before, run a more smooth election.
(02:38):
But we have a team of attorneys here up at
our headquarters. Additionally, we're working our election attorney is also
working for the RNC Senator Cruz. There's a whole team
attorneys down town that are ready to take action if needed,
and of course the Attorney General Paxton is too. Now
(03:01):
that said, we know the first level in district court
here is a bunch of Democrat judges. So anything that
we would do, any legal action, would ultimately and quickly
have to be appealed. And we've been through this process.
We went through it in twenty two during the primary
(03:22):
as well as a general election and also the May
election that year. We had to take legal action. And
you know, the thing about the elections is that in general,
the Supreme Court, the appellate courts will look at it
immediately because of you know, because it is the election.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, I hate to ask you to give a one
word answer, Cindy, but but I will anyway, and that is,
do you think that this election is going to be
fair here in Ariscony. Do you have confidence in the
results that we're going to get? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You're asking a CPA who is never a betting I
don't bet unless I'm ninety nine point nine to nine percent.
Sure do I think the Democrats will try something and
this is not a reflection upon the county clerk. Yes,
whether it's here in Harris County, we've heard rumblings across
(04:17):
the state. I heard I think it was Dallas County.
They were pulling some of the shenanigans they did here
in town. But yeah, but that's why we have pole watchers.
We have more pole watchers placed than we ever have before.
We've got great trained election workers, you know, judges there
(04:38):
and up here at headquarters. We've been here since five
point thirty this morning. We have over a dozen experienced
election workers where our people out in the field can
call if they've got something that they see. I've got
the constables on those speed guy also and as well
as Tanisha Hutsbon doing everything.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You got everybody ready to go just in case. All right,
Thank you, Cindy, appreciate it. Hair's kinding to you a
peach hair. That's Cindy Siegel at six twenty seven
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