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Speaker 1 (00:00):
News Radio six ten double UTV, and it's beginning to
feel a lot like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just the America is a nation that can be defined
in a single word.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I was gonna foot him.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, I don't know where that were that. You know,
they laughed at KOFE, but that that was even more creative.
Eight two one nine at eighty six number eight two one,
double UTV and Robert Sprague wants to be your Ohio
Secretary of State. Joining since studio. I've got some calls
standing by, so let's get to some. Doug. You are
on sixten double UTV at high Good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, Chuck, and mister Sprague, the Secretary of State.
You're in charge of our elections.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Correct, that's right, absolutely, that's our primary responsibility.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
There's a few others, but you're in charge of the elections.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay. I was wondering, and this has an election question here. Yeah,
I've been hearing for some time our elections are much
fraud going on in our elections. And I'm of a
conservative mind myself, and I was wondering something to help
our elections and to help our deficits. If a prerequisite
(01:12):
for voting one would have to pay taxes. Now, this
doesn't mean someone can never vote again, but within a
certain voting timeline. You know, if they're not contributing to
our society through taxes, why do they get to vote?
And typically, you know, vote for more benefits for themselves.
(01:35):
It's something like that you think ever a possibility.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Well, look, I think that you know, as I was
saying earlier, the Constitution guarantees us certain rights as Americans.
It's something that makes our country unique. And it doesn't
matter whether you pay taxes, or what your beliefs are,
or the kind of contributions that you make, or even
your intellectual ability. That's a fundamental right that we enjoy
as Americans. And I want to keep it that way.
(02:02):
And I understand what you're saying. We you know, certainly
taxpayers need to be listened to, and so many times
we don't feel like we're listening to these days, with
a lot of the fraud that's occurring taking our money,
the tax situations of property taxes going up and people
not listening to the property tax owners and that they
(02:24):
can no longer afford the property taxes, and there are
a lot of other instances that we feel like we're
not hurt as Americans. But I think the best way
to do that is to exercise our First Amendment rights
and our freedom of speech and make sure that we
talk about these issues that are so important to the
future of our government and our budget and who we
(02:47):
are as Americans and what our tax policy is.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Appreciate the call, Doug, Thanks very much for that. I
don't think it would ever happen. I mean, you know,
going back again to the poll tax idea. We got
rid of that because paying a tax in order to
vote didn't float with that whole freedom mindset we're supposed
to have in this country. And honestly, I don't know
how many people actually pay taxes. I mean, you might
file forms, but you make thirty five thousand dollars a year,
(03:13):
you got two kids, you got your self employed, and
you're write offs. You might have paid eighteen hundred dollars
into the federal system and get back a tax refund
for six thousand dollars because you've got deductions. You filed
the paperwork, but you didn't actually pay taxes. In fact,
you got some free money. And that happens, and I
(03:34):
would venture to say probably the majority of the cases
in this country when it comes to tax filing. So
being a taxpayer versus a tax filer, I think two
very very very different things. Aaron, let's get you on
six ten WTV and high yes.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Sir, great show, Chuck. I just want to just point,
just real quick point out how lucky we are here
in great Stateablehio to have it a resource like six
ten stragged. Thanks for coming on and you know, answer
some questions. It's it's really awesome, and it's rare. I
get around and and you don't hear a lot of
this in these surrounding states and and the surrounding radio stations.
(04:13):
It's it's very rare here a guy like yourself come
on and take questions like this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
That's my question. I got two quick questions. One is, uh, so,
I I know that social Security numbers by let's call
them undocumented aliens have been taken before from deceased you
know people, and they're using those social Security numbers to
(04:41):
basically meld into society and a quote unquote legal fashion,
not a legal way, you know, but seemingly they they're
still paying taxes, they're still uh you know, on whatever
job they have and they're still getting a tax refund
and they're still voting in the elections with these you know,
hir rated social security numbers. I'm just wondering what your
(05:04):
office had to say about that. And the second question
is will CDL holders be an exemption on that being
able to vote by mail or absent fee? I guess
you wouldn't say, just because even when there's a holiday,
you know, the stuff that still's got a role, man,
it just does.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Absolutely, we'll get called on on holidays.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Good thoughts are and I'm going to let you listen
on the radio and make the line free for somebody
else at a two me WTV and mister.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Sprague, No, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I do want
to take the kind of the second part of the
question first, and that is, you know, if you're going
to be gone, or you have a job that demands
you work on the day of elections, or you're unable
to make it to the polls in the prior to
thirty days. Of course, we don't want you to be disenfranchised.
We want you to be able to exercise your right,
(05:54):
and you would qualify for an absentee ballot. That's the
way it used to be before two thousand and five
when we changed it in the state of Ohio to
no fault absentee voting. So I simply am proposing that
we go back to the way we did voting in
our state from eighteen oh three up until two thousand
and five. No one was disenfranchised. You still have those
(06:15):
mail in ballots for people that have a valid excuse. Now,
the first part of your question with regards to people
stealing Social Security numbers from Americans that have passed away,
this is why the data and I talked about the
registration going through the registrations, this is why the data
(06:37):
is so important. Is you've got to find people that
have passed away and you've got to make sure that
they're removed from the voter rolls. And the only people
that have this information is the federal government. And so
you're going to have to work with the federal government,
the Social Security Administration itself, and you're going to have
to be able to pull that data back to verify
it at the state level. And we have some access
(06:59):
to it now, but it's got to be tighter and
it's got to be better in the future. And if
you can't get it from the Social Security Administration information
you have to get it from the Systematic Alien Verification
for Entitlement system, and between these two systems, we will
be able to know who's an American citizen, who is
(07:20):
a non citizen who's living legally in the country, and
none of those individuals should be able to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's pretty succint You mentioned the early voting thirty day
window there for early voting a couple of times, and
you have not cringed when you've done it. Do you
like are you favorable towards the concept of early voting?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Listen, I think early voting is fine. As I said,
my mission is to run the most secure elections in
the history of the state of Ohio. I'm not trying
to change the voting electorate, and I think that the
early voting, if it's in person, I really like it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think it's good. A lot of people use.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I just I woorry and we've got to find example
here in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'm not going to name the candidate, but you know,
if you voted for that candidate in the first couple
of days of early voting, they're no longer a candidate.
They can't be a candidate, and yet you voted, you
wasted that vote essentially, And that's one of my problems.
I would rather wait till showtime. That's why I like
that twenty four hours of voting, get it all over with,
wait till showtime before we raise the curtain. And I
(08:27):
think early voting especially, it sounds so distressing. But as
screwed up as human beings are anymore, and as easy
as it is to get information and dig down and
find things out, and the information propagates on the internet,
there's always a shoot to drop. For me, I'm just
I can't go out in an early vote. I can't
(08:48):
do it because I need to get to the last
possible second and make sure. Okay, these are my choices.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I like to vote on election day. I may too.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm a creature of habit. I like going under the polls.
Think also is an elected official. I just like to
talk to the poll workers. I like to say thank
you on election day. I like to hear from them
what they think the voter turnout.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Is going to be. But that's the way I like
to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But for some people, for instance, the gentleman that called
in with the CDL and if he's an over the
road trucker, he may have to be gone. And so
it's good for him to have those other options. And
I love the fact that it's in person where people
are showing their photo ID. And we've got to move
to universal photo ID. Whether you do it through the
mail or you show up in person, you're showing your
(09:33):
photo ID. But the most secure way to vote is
to vote in person.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
All right, get down to the last two minutes. I
want to get out of your way. And I'm just
some guy on the street who stepped up to you.
Is Robert Spraig? Why should I vote for you? The
floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, I'll just tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know, we're going to run the most secure elections
in the history of the state of Ohioan we do
that first of all by requiring an upfront citizenship check
so that only America consitizens can vote in our elections.
We look at the existing voter registration database, and we
get rid of the illegal immigrants and the non citizens
and the people who have passed away. We will I
(10:11):
would like for us to return to in person voting,
declare Election Day a holiday, still reserving those absentee ballots
for the people that need them. And the final piece
is we need to make sure that we use paper ballots,
a separate paper printed ballot in every county in the state.
That's the way we should vote, because there's separate pieces
of paper where you can see who you voted for.
(10:34):
Create a perfect and immutable audit trail that allows us
to go back and count the paper to make sure
that the machines are accurate and they're telling us the truth.
It's a fantastic security plan and that's why I'm running
for Secretary of State.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Website, social media, any other contact or find out about
you information.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, go check out our website it's Sprague for Ohio
dot com and look at our elections security plan online.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And the other thing I'll.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Mention is that for any of the Republicans out there
that are wanting to beat Democrats this November, I'm a
proven commoditee. I've won elections at the local level, at
the district level, and I've won statewide election twice for
the Treasurer's office. And in twenty eighteen, i'd led the
Republican ticket, receiving more votes than any other Republican and
(11:23):
we need to unite make sure that we go into
the November election with everything we've got.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm a proven winner and a capable leader.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The only other elected Sprague I've known was Howard in Maybury.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Howard Sprague? Would I think he's a county treasurer if
I'm not mistaken. On the Andy Griffith Show, It's the
spr a g u E for Ohio dot com. That
is the website where you can find out more
News Radio six ten double UTV, and it's beginning to
feel a lot like Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just the America is a nation that can be defined
in a single word.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I was gonna foot him.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, I don't know where that were that. You know,
they laughed at KOFE, but that that was even more creative.
Eight two one nine at eighty six number eight two one,
double UTV and Robert Sprague wants to be your Ohio
Secretary of State. Joining since studio. I've got some calls
standing by, so let's get to some. Doug. You are
on sixten double UTV at high Good.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, Chuck, and mister Sprague, the Secretary of State.
You're in charge of our elections.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Correct, that's right, absolutely, that's our primary responsibility.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
There's a few others, but you're in charge of the elections.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay. I was wondering, and this has an election question here. Yeah,
I've been hearing for some time our elections are much
fraud going on in our elections. And I'm of a
conservative mind myself, and I was wondering something to help
our elections and to help our deficits. If a prerequisite
(01:12):
for voting one would have to pay taxes. Now, this
doesn't mean someone can never vote again, but within a
certain voting timeline. You know, if they're not contributing to
our society through taxes, why do they get to vote?
And typically, you know, vote for more benefits for themselves.
(01:35):
It's something like that you think ever a possibility.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Well, look, I think that you know, as I was
saying earlier, the Constitution guarantees us certain rights as Americans.
It's something that makes our country unique. And it doesn't
matter whether you pay taxes, or what your beliefs are,
or the kind of contributions that you make, or even
your intellectual ability. That's a fundamental right that we enjoy
as Americans. And I want to keep it that way.
(02:02):
And I understand what you're saying. We you know, certainly
taxpayers need to be listened to, and so many times
we don't feel like we're listening to these days, with
a lot of the fraud that's occurring taking our money,
the tax situations of property taxes going up and people
not listening to the property tax owners and that they
(02:24):
can no longer afford the property taxes, and there are
a lot of other instances that we feel like we're
not hurt as Americans. But I think the best way
to do that is to exercise our First Amendment rights
and our freedom of speech and make sure that we
talk about these issues that are so important to the
future of our government and our budget and who we
(02:47):
are as Americans and what our tax policy is.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Appreciate the call, Doug, Thanks very much for that. I
don't think it would ever happen. I mean, you know,
going back again to the poll tax idea. We got
rid of that because paying a tax in order to
vote didn't float with that whole freedom mindset we're supposed
to have in this country. And honestly, I don't know
how many people actually pay taxes. I mean, you might
file forms, but you make thirty five thousand dollars a year,
(03:13):
you got two kids, you got your self employed, and
you're write offs. You might have paid eighteen hundred dollars
into the federal system and get back a tax refund
for six thousand dollars because you've got deductions. You filed
the paperwork, but you didn't actually pay taxes. In fact,
you got some free money. And that happens, and I
(03:34):
would venture to say probably the majority of the cases
in this country when it comes to tax filing. So
being a taxpayer versus a tax filer, I think two
very very very different things. Aaron, let's get you on
six ten WTV and high yes.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Sir, great show, Chuck. I just want to just point,
just real quick point out how lucky we are here
in great Stateablehio to have it a resource like six
ten stragged. Thanks for coming on and you know, answer
some questions. It's it's really awesome, and it's rare. I
get around and and you don't hear a lot of
this in these surrounding states and and the surrounding radio stations.
(04:13):
It's it's very rare here a guy like yourself come
on and take questions like this.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
That's my question. I got two quick questions. One is, uh, so,
I I know that social Security numbers by let's call
them undocumented aliens have been taken before from deceased you
know people, and they're using those social Security numbers to
(04:41):
basically meld into society and a quote unquote legal fashion,
not a legal way, you know, but seemingly they they're
still paying taxes, they're still uh you know, on whatever
job they have and they're still getting a tax refund
and they're still voting in the elections with these you know,
hir rated social security numbers. I'm just wondering what your
(05:04):
office had to say about that. And the second question
is will CDL holders be an exemption on that being
able to vote by mail or absent fee? I guess
you wouldn't say, just because even when there's a holiday,
you know, the stuff that still's got a role, man,
it just does.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Absolutely, we'll get called on on holidays.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Good thoughts are and I'm going to let you listen
on the radio and make the line free for somebody
else at a two me WTV and mister.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Sprague, No, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I do want
to take the kind of the second part of the
question first, and that is, you know, if you're going
to be gone, or you have a job that demands
you work on the day of elections, or you're unable
to make it to the polls in the prior to
thirty days. Of course, we don't want you to be disenfranchised.
We want you to be able to exercise your right,
(05:54):
and you would qualify for an absentee ballot. That's the
way it used to be before two thousand and five
when we changed it in the state of Ohio to
no fault absentee voting. So I simply am proposing that
we go back to the way we did voting in
our state from eighteen oh three up until two thousand
and five. No one was disenfranchised. You still have those
(06:15):
mail in ballots for people that have a valid excuse. Now,
the first part of your question with regards to people
stealing Social Security numbers from Americans that have passed away,
this is why the data and I talked about the
registration going through the registrations, this is why the data
(06:37):
is so important. Is you've got to find people that
have passed away and you've got to make sure that
they're removed from the voter rolls. And the only people
that have this information is the federal government. And so
you're going to have to work with the federal government,
the Social Security Administration itself, and you're going to have
to be able to pull that data back to verify
it at the state level. And we have some access
(06:59):
to it now, but it's got to be tighter and
it's got to be better in the future. And if
you can't get it from the Social Security Administration information
you have to get it from the Systematic Alien Verification
for Entitlement system, and between these two systems, we will
be able to know who's an American citizen, who is
(07:20):
a non citizen who's living legally in the country, and
none of those individuals should be able to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
That's pretty succint You mentioned the early voting thirty day
window there for early voting a couple of times, and
you have not cringed when you've done it. Do you
like are you favorable towards the concept of early voting?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Listen, I think early voting is fine. As I said,
my mission is to run the most secure elections in
the history of the state of Ohio. I'm not trying
to change the voting electorate, and I think that the
early voting, if it's in person, I really like it.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I think it's good. A lot of people use.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I just I woorry and we've got to find example
here in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I'm not going to name the candidate, but you know,
if you voted for that candidate in the first couple
of days of early voting, they're no longer a candidate.
They can't be a candidate, and yet you voted, you
wasted that vote essentially, And that's one of my problems.
I would rather wait till showtime. That's why I like
that twenty four hours of voting, get it all over with,
wait till showtime before we raise the curtain. And I
(08:27):
think early voting especially, it sounds so distressing. But as
screwed up as human beings are anymore, and as easy
as it is to get information and dig down and
find things out, and the information propagates on the internet,
there's always a shoot to drop. For me, I'm just
I can't go out in an early vote. I can't
(08:48):
do it because I need to get to the last
possible second and make sure. Okay, these are my choices.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I like to vote on election day. I may too.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm a creature of habit. I like going under the polls.
Think also is an elected official. I just like to
talk to the poll workers. I like to say thank
you on election day. I like to hear from them
what they think the voter turnout.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Is going to be. But that's the way I like
to do it.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
But for some people, for instance, the gentleman that called
in with the CDL and if he's an over the
road trucker, he may have to be gone. And so
it's good for him to have those other options. And
I love the fact that it's in person where people
are showing their photo ID. And we've got to move
to universal photo ID. Whether you do it through the
mail or you show up in person, you're showing your
(09:33):
photo ID. But the most secure way to vote is
to vote in person.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
All right, get down to the last two minutes. I
want to get out of your way. And I'm just
some guy on the street who stepped up to you.
Is Robert Spraig? Why should I vote for you? The
floor is yours.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, I'll just tell you.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
You know, we're going to run the most secure elections
in the history of the state of Ohioan we do
that first of all by requiring an upfront citizenship check
so that only America consitizens can vote in our elections.
We look at the existing voter registration database, and we
get rid of the illegal immigrants and the non citizens
and the people who have passed away. We will I
(10:11):
would like for us to return to in person voting,
declare Election Day a holiday, still reserving those absentee ballots
for the people that need them. And the final piece
is we need to make sure that we use paper ballots,
a separate paper printed ballot in every county in the state.
That's the way we should vote, because there's separate pieces
of paper where you can see who you voted for.
(10:34):
Create a perfect and immutable audit trail that allows us
to go back and count the paper to make sure
that the machines are accurate and they're telling us the truth.
It's a fantastic security plan and that's why I'm running
for Secretary of State.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Website, social media, any other contact or find out about
you information.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, go check out our website it's Sprague for Ohio
dot com and look at our elections security plan online.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And the other thing I'll.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Mention is that for any of the Republicans out there
that are wanting to beat Democrats this November, I'm a
proven commoditee. I've won elections at the local level, at
the district level, and I've won statewide election twice for
the Treasurer's office. And in twenty eighteen, i'd led the
Republican ticket, receiving more votes than any other Republican and
(11:23):
we need to unite make sure that we go into
the November election with everything we've got.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm a proven winner and a capable leader.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The only other elected Sprague I've known was Howard in Maybury.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Howard Sprague? Would I think he's a county treasurer if
I'm not mistaken. On the Andy Griffith Show, It's the
spr a g u E for Ohio dot com. That
is the website where you can find out more
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