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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The talk station seven thirty come up with seven thirty one,
fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, look, it's election day.
If you didn't get the memo, get out and vote,
somebody knows all about that works very hard to ensure
that Ohio, the state of ohouse the gold standard for
election integrity. Welcome back to the fifty five KRFC Morning Show,
House Secretary of State Frank Larrose. Great to have you
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Today, Frank Brian, Happy Election Day. One hour ago the
polling locations opened. I was listening to your traffic report
just now. I was surprised to hear that there wasn't
a massive traffic jam at every polling location. Because we're
gonna have huge turnout today everybody, well at least it
should be that way, right, Everybody should be really excited
to get out of vote in these local elections. They
(00:41):
have a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
On your life. I mean, this is election year. This
is like a presidential election year for the citizens of
the city of Cincinnati. We got an entire council slate
to vote on and the mayor. A lot of people
dissatisfied with the direction of the city. And I know
there's a lot of other people outside of the city
that have no controlleror say over it. But what happens
in Cincinnati has a profound impact on all the regions.
And yet Secretary of State Frank LeRose, they anticipate if
(01:04):
any if the prior, if the pass is indicative of
future a voter turnout would be lucky if we get
twenty five percent of the people to vote.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's a tale of two different cycles in a lot
of ways in Ohio because when you look at the
even numbered years twenty twenty, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four,
we've had massive turnout. Like I always laugh when the
leftists and the liberal groups say that I try to
suppress the vote, because if that's my objective, I stink
at it. We're not suppressing anything we've had. We've had
(01:34):
huge turnout in Ohio, and we're really proud of that,
really massive turnout in Ohio. And then a year later,
when you have an odd numbered year, when you have
a local election, it drops, as you mentioned, sometimes in
the teams or twenty percent range. It's too bad because
we all know it matters who lives in the White House.
Trust me as a reservist in the Army. It matters
(01:54):
who my commander in chief is and who our president is.
But what probably makes a bigger impact on your daily
life is not who lives in the White House, but
who works at the courthouse or the schoolhouse or city hall.
And that's the decision that we're making. Those are the
decisions that we're making right now. Here's the other thing, Bran,
I get this from people all the time. They say,
you know what, I know, it's important, but I just
(02:16):
don't know enough and I don't want to guess. Well,
that's not a good excuse me. If you just go
to our website vote Ohio dot gov, you can look
at what's called your sample ballot. Heck, this is what
Lauren and I did last night. Literally, we put the
kids to bed. I printed off our sample ballot because
even as involved as I am, I wanted to make
sure I knew all the different judges and city council
candidates and school board candidates. And we sat there as
(02:38):
a couple and we talked about our choices and now
we're ready to go. She and I. Ay's going to
go vote today. So it's easy to do just a
little bit of research. You're not going to find any
lines that you're polling locations. I mean, you'll be in
and out in fifteen minutes. You're going to get a
free eye voted sticker. For heaven's sake, you should get
out and make your voice heard today. It really does matter.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Vote Ohio dot com. We have a couple of very
important judicial races here locally. Betsy Sunman and Josh barker Witz,
both very good and strong on crime, excellent jurists, and
we got a real topic conversation around here, which is
the increase in crime. Well, here's a way to solve
the judicial problem. Vote for Sunderman and Barkerwitz. So, Frank LeRose,
I want to appeal to you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You want you want tough judges, and those are two
that are tough and fair. You want good mayors and
city council members. At no secret that I've been out
supporting Corey Bowman for a long time. He's a good
man and I think going to do a good job
for the City of Cincinnati. But every election, I can
tell you this is an Ohio Chief Elections officer. I
know who's going to win today. The candidate who gets
(03:38):
more supporters to come out and vote bottom line, every
election is won by by whoever turns out to vote,
and and today's your chance to do it. Don't miss it.
Polls are open until seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Tonight, so many reasons to get out. And Frank Lewis,
I was just talking about the they're endeavoring to come
up with some compromise. A handful of representatives from to
both parties in in DC trying to figure out to
open the government dealing with these phased out income tax,
enhanced premiums and all that. One of the proposals for compromise.
And there's a reason I'm bringing this up to you,
Secretary of State, Frank LeRose requiring the Affordable Care Act
(04:12):
marketplaces to confirm that recipients haven't died. Oh, what a
profound compromise that is. I've shocked to even read that
they had to discuss that as a compromise. This is
part of your job making sure that dead people can't
vote in Ohio. And last week you announced you found
twelve are you referred twelve hundred criminal cases to the
US Department of Justice for prosecution. Apparently we had non
(04:34):
citizens actually voting in federal and state elections.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And some of this goes back to before my administration.
Twenty eighteen is as far back as we could look
with limitations and that kind of thing. But we said,
you know, listen, voter fraud is rare. Let's put that
into perspective. First of all, with seven point eight million
registered voters, millions of people voting in each election, it's
a really good thing that we when we do our work,
(05:01):
we find, you know, just over a thousand cases that
need to be referred over the last seven years, right,
and so we've referred those cases to the US Department
of Justice for suspected election fraud that occurs in those
even number of years when there are federal elections on
the ballot. And yeah, these are cases where non citizens
have attempted to register to vote, in some cases, because
(05:22):
of human error at boards of elections or whatever, have
actually been successful in registering to vote. A few cases
where we caught people doing what's called multi state voting,
where they vote in Ohio and in another state. And
there need to be consequences for this, you know, the lessons. Oh,
it's so rare, a Rose, why do you make such
a big deal about this, Well, because it is a
big deal. Carjackings are rare in my neighborhood, thank god.
(05:45):
But when one happens, I want the criminal to be
brought to justice from the case. I mean, this is
like common sense kind of stuff. And so yeah, we're
working with the federal Department of Justice. We also, as
you mentioned, we remove dead people from the voter rules.
We do it on a monthly bas This shouldn't be controversial.
We get that list from the Ohio Department of Health,
and the High Department of Health knows everybody who has
(06:08):
passed away in the state of Ohio. The death record
is generated where the person dies. But the reason why
we needed federal data is because when somebody dies out
of state or maybe even overseas, maybe they're visiting a
friend or whatever else, we have a harder time getting
that death record. And so now we're able to access
federal data. I had to sue the Biden administration because
(06:30):
they weren't going to give it to me. Thankfully, the
Trump administration has been happy to do that. And yet
we removed that people every month from the voter rules.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Another crazy reality of the Biden administration didn't want to
share information so we could get rid of dead people.
On the voter rolls. That is nefarious. I mean, it
has an out loud statement that they appreciate and embrace
the whole concept of being able to well illegally vote well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And what's crazy is that the laws says that they're
required to share that data. That's the funny part. So
last year, when I got on the phone with somebody
from the US Department of Homeland Security from the Biden administration.
This person was hired there during the Obama administration. She
said the quiet part out loud. She said, well, you know,
we used to allow election officials to use this information,
(07:15):
but we don't trust that they're using it correctly, like, oh,
you hate seeds out in flyover country. Don't know how
this complicated federal data works, and we think you're going
to misuse it, like come on, give me a break.
And so thankfully we have access to that now and
we are using it to make sure that only citizens
are registered to vote, and only living people registered to
(07:38):
vote in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Great concept. Secretary State Frank LeRose, is it the idea
that once you land in Washington, DC, you're suddenly, you know,
granted all these magical powers that we out here in
fly Over Country just don't have It's all preposterous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The elitism. The elitism is a real thing. These people
genuinely think that they're smarter than us, and and well,
I think that we're learning they're not. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Bringing this full circle to the problem we have with
crime locally, the idea of deterrence. We need strong judges
to act as that deterrence. I applaud your efforts. As
small as the numbers may be relative to the entire population,
you have sent a strong message to those who might
consider breaking the law. We will refer you to the
Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. So don't bother
(08:26):
trying it in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's a good saying out there, but I'll clean it
up for radio, so you don't have to believe me.
If you mess around, you will find out. And just
what if you mess around with voter fraud in Ohio,
you will find out you will be prosecuted at either
the local or state level, or we will refer you
to the federal Department of Justice so that you will
(08:50):
face justice for doing it. And in fact, in most
cases it's a felony. So if you are a non
citizen who attempts to register to vote and commits a
felony that makes you subject to immediate deporte and so
people should take this stuff seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Secretary of State Frank LeRose, thank you so much for
spending time my listeners with me this morning, and thanks
for all the hard work you've done ensuring we are
the gold standard here in the state of Ohio as
far as election integrity goes. And thanks again for working
with Corey Bowman. We really have high hopes for Corey,
and I certainly appreciate your efforts working with him for
a better Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He Then, get out and vote. If you have an
absentee ballot, you got to get to your Board of
Elections by seven thirty tonight, and thank your poll workers
when you get there. They're working hard for us.
The talk station seven thirty come up with seven thirty one,
fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, look, it's election day.
If you didn't get the memo, get out and vote,
somebody knows all about that works very hard to ensure
that Ohio, the state of ohouse the gold standard for
election integrity. Welcome back to the fifty five KRFC Morning Show,
House Secretary of State Frank Larrose. Great to have you
on the show.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Today, Frank Brian, Happy Election Day. One hour ago the
polling locations opened. I was listening to your traffic report
just now. I was surprised to hear that there wasn't
a massive traffic jam at every polling location. Because we're
gonna have huge turnout today everybody, well at least it
should be that way, right, Everybody should be really excited
to get out of vote in these local elections. They
(00:41):
have a huge impact.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
On your life. I mean, this is election year. This
is like a presidential election year for the citizens of
the city of Cincinnati. We got an entire council slate
to vote on and the mayor. A lot of people
dissatisfied with the direction of the city. And I know
there's a lot of other people outside of the city
that have no controlleror say over it. But what happens
in Cincinnati has a profound impact on all the regions.
And yet Secretary of State Frank LeRose, they anticipate if
(01:04):
any if the prior, if the pass is indicative of
future a voter turnout would be lucky if we get
twenty five percent of the people to vote.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's a tale of two different cycles in a lot
of ways in Ohio because when you look at the
even numbered years twenty twenty, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four,
we've had massive turnout. Like I always laugh when the
leftists and the liberal groups say that I try to
suppress the vote, because if that's my objective, I stink
at it. We're not suppressing anything we've had. We've had
(01:34):
huge turnout in Ohio, and we're really proud of that,
really massive turnout in Ohio. And then a year later,
when you have an odd numbered year, when you have
a local election, it drops, as you mentioned, sometimes in
the teams or twenty percent range. It's too bad because
we all know it matters who lives in the White House.
Trust me as a reservist in the Army. It matters
(01:54):
who my commander in chief is and who our president is.
But what probably makes a bigger impact on your daily
life is not who lives in the White House, but
who works at the courthouse or the schoolhouse or city hall.
And that's the decision that we're making. Those are the
decisions that we're making right now. Here's the other thing, Bran,
I get this from people all the time. They say,
you know what, I know, it's important, but I just
(02:16):
don't know enough and I don't want to guess. Well,
that's not a good excuse me. If you just go
to our website vote Ohio dot gov, you can look
at what's called your sample ballot. Heck, this is what
Lauren and I did last night. Literally, we put the
kids to bed. I printed off our sample ballot because
even as involved as I am, I wanted to make
sure I knew all the different judges and city council
candidates and school board candidates. And we sat there as
(02:38):
a couple and we talked about our choices and now
we're ready to go. She and I. Ay's going to
go vote today. So it's easy to do just a
little bit of research. You're not going to find any
lines that you're polling locations. I mean, you'll be in
and out in fifteen minutes. You're going to get a
free eye voted sticker. For heaven's sake, you should get
out and make your voice heard today. It really does matter.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Vote Ohio dot com. We have a couple of very
important judicial races here locally. Betsy Sunman and Josh barker Witz,
both very good and strong on crime, excellent jurists, and
we got a real topic conversation around here, which is
the increase in crime. Well, here's a way to solve
the judicial problem. Vote for Sunderman and Barkerwitz. So, Frank LeRose,
I want to appeal to you.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You want you want tough judges, and those are two
that are tough and fair. You want good mayors and
city council members. At no secret that I've been out
supporting Corey Bowman for a long time. He's a good
man and I think going to do a good job
for the City of Cincinnati. But every election, I can
tell you this is an Ohio Chief Elections officer. I
know who's going to win today. The candidate who gets
(03:38):
more supporters to come out and vote bottom line, every
election is won by by whoever turns out to vote,
and and today's your chance to do it. Don't miss it.
Polls are open until seven thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Tonight, so many reasons to get out. And Frank Lewis,
I was just talking about the they're endeavoring to come
up with some compromise. A handful of representatives from to
both parties in in DC trying to figure out to
open the government dealing with these phased out income tax,
enhanced premiums and all that. One of the proposals for compromise.
And there's a reason I'm bringing this up to you,
Secretary of State, Frank LeRose requiring the Affordable Care Act
(04:12):
marketplaces to confirm that recipients haven't died. Oh, what a
profound compromise that is. I've shocked to even read that
they had to discuss that as a compromise. This is
part of your job making sure that dead people can't
vote in Ohio. And last week you announced you found
twelve are you referred twelve hundred criminal cases to the
US Department of Justice for prosecution. Apparently we had non
(04:34):
citizens actually voting in federal and state elections.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And some of this goes back to before my administration.
Twenty eighteen is as far back as we could look
with limitations and that kind of thing. But we said,
you know, listen, voter fraud is rare. Let's put that
into perspective. First of all, with seven point eight million
registered voters, millions of people voting in each election, it's
a really good thing that we when we do our work,
(05:01):
we find, you know, just over a thousand cases that
need to be referred over the last seven years, right,
and so we've referred those cases to the US Department
of Justice for suspected election fraud that occurs in those
even number of years when there are federal elections on
the ballot. And yeah, these are cases where non citizens
have attempted to register to vote, in some cases, because
(05:22):
of human error at boards of elections or whatever, have
actually been successful in registering to vote. A few cases
where we caught people doing what's called multi state voting,
where they vote in Ohio and in another state. And
there need to be consequences for this, you know, the lessons. Oh,
it's so rare, a Rose, why do you make such
a big deal about this, Well, because it is a
big deal. Carjackings are rare in my neighborhood, thank god.
(05:45):
But when one happens, I want the criminal to be
brought to justice from the case. I mean, this is
like common sense kind of stuff. And so yeah, we're
working with the federal Department of Justice. We also, as
you mentioned, we remove dead people from the voter rules.
We do it on a monthly bas This shouldn't be controversial.
We get that list from the Ohio Department of Health,
and the High Department of Health knows everybody who has
(06:08):
passed away in the state of Ohio. The death record
is generated where the person dies. But the reason why
we needed federal data is because when somebody dies out
of state or maybe even overseas, maybe they're visiting a
friend or whatever else, we have a harder time getting
that death record. And so now we're able to access
federal data. I had to sue the Biden administration because
(06:30):
they weren't going to give it to me. Thankfully, the
Trump administration has been happy to do that. And yet
we removed that people every month from the voter rules.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Another crazy reality of the Biden administration didn't want to
share information so we could get rid of dead people.
On the voter rolls. That is nefarious. I mean, it
has an out loud statement that they appreciate and embrace
the whole concept of being able to well illegally vote well.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And what's crazy is that the laws says that they're
required to share that data. That's the funny part. So
last year, when I got on the phone with somebody
from the US Department of Homeland Security from the Biden administration.
This person was hired there during the Obama administration. She
said the quiet part out loud. She said, well, you know,
we used to allow election officials to use this information,
(07:15):
but we don't trust that they're using it correctly, like, oh,
you hate seeds out in flyover country. Don't know how
this complicated federal data works, and we think you're going
to misuse it, like come on, give me a break.
And so thankfully we have access to that now and
we are using it to make sure that only citizens
are registered to vote, and only living people registered to
(07:38):
vote in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Great concept. Secretary State Frank LeRose, is it the idea
that once you land in Washington, DC, you're suddenly, you know,
granted all these magical powers that we out here in
fly Over Country just don't have It's all preposterous.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The elitism. The elitism is a real thing. These people
genuinely think that they're smarter than us, and and well,
I think that we're learning they're not. Well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Bringing this full circle to the problem we have with
crime locally, the idea of deterrence. We need strong judges
to act as that deterrence. I applaud your efforts. As
small as the numbers may be relative to the entire population,
you have sent a strong message to those who might
consider breaking the law. We will refer you to the
Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. So don't bother
(08:26):
trying it in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
There's a good saying out there, but I'll clean it
up for radio, so you don't have to believe me.
If you mess around, you will find out. And just
what if you mess around with voter fraud in Ohio,
you will find out you will be prosecuted at either
the local or state level, or we will refer you
to the federal Department of Justice so that you will
(08:50):
face justice for doing it. And in fact, in most
cases it's a felony. So if you are a non
citizen who attempts to register to vote and commits a
felony that makes you subject to immediate deporte and so
people should take this stuff seriously.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Secretary of State Frank LeRose, thank you so much for
spending time my listeners with me this morning, and thanks
for all the hard work you've done ensuring we are
the gold standard here in the state of Ohio as
far as election integrity goes. And thanks again for working
with Corey Bowman. We really have high hopes for Corey,
and I certainly appreciate your efforts working with him for
a better Cincinnati.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He Then, get out and vote. If you have an
absentee ballot, you got to get to your Board of
Elections by seven thirty tonight, and thank your poll workers
when you get there. They're working hard for us.
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