Speaker 1: Bill cunning in the Great America. Welcome this Monday afternoon
Speaker 1: the tri State. The weather is perfect. Can't say so
Speaker 1: much about the Bengals. Some factoids that I want to
Speaker 1: go over with Franklin Rose on the Bengals. Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: is nine and one the last ten games against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Frank Leinarrose, is that good or bad? Lamar Jackson nine
Speaker 1: and one against the Bengals? Good or bad?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'm a Browns fan and a
Speaker 2: lot to be concerned about for all of us right
Speaker 2: now in Ohio football.
Speaker 1: Well, going back to the first game of last year,
Speaker 1: the Bengals are four and eleven against the AFC. Four
Speaker 1: and eleven. Is that good or bad?
Speaker 2: I don't think that's good. You wouldn't accept those kind
Speaker 2: of numbers when it comes to election integrity, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Four and eleven plus Joe Burrow, as you know, in
Speaker 1: the first two games of each season. Over the last
Speaker 1: five he's one in nine in those games. But that's
Speaker 1: better than the brown So Frank Leroe, Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and Frank Today
Speaker 1: tomorrow Big days. Can you tell the American people, What
Speaker 1: is important about today and tomorrow other than the commemoration
Speaker 1: of the lives lost in October the seventh in and
Speaker 1: around Israel. Give us a full report. What is today?
Speaker 1: What is tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and obviously a somber day as it relates to that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be joining with the Ohio Jewish community
Speaker 2: tonight in commemoration of the lives lost and recommitting ourselves
Speaker 2: to the fact that Israel has the right to defend
Speaker 2: itself in its national sovereignty. As it relates to elections administration,
Speaker 2: this is a busy time because today is the deadline
Speaker 2: for voter registration. If you've been procrastinating that, you got
Speaker 2: to get off the couch today because if you're not
Speaker 2: registered to vote before midnight tonight, it is too late.
Speaker 2: The easy way to do that is to go to
Speaker 2: our website vote Ohio dot gov. You got to have
Speaker 2: a state ID or a driver's license to use the
Speaker 2: online voter registration at vote Ohio dot gov. Of course,
Speaker 2: if you like the old paper dead wed ink format.
Speaker 2: I've got all the boards of elections staying open late tonight,
Speaker 2: so no excuse, every board of elections and my office
Speaker 2: here in Columbus are staying open until nine pm to
Speaker 2: accept the hard copy paper voter registration if that's how
Speaker 2: you prefer to do it, as well, and maybe remind
Speaker 2: a young person if you got somebody in your family
Speaker 2: that turned eighteen this year, or even if they turn
Speaker 2: eighteen in the next couple weeks, they got to get
Speaker 2: to vote Ohio dot gov and get registered to vote. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: early voting starts, and listen, there's no excuse for not
Speaker 2: voting in Ohio. The left likes to wring their hands
Speaker 2: and complain and say that we're making it harder to vote.
Speaker 2: That's nonsense, it's demonstrably untrue. It's easier to vote than
Speaker 2: it's ever been in human history, and that four weeks
Speaker 2: of early voting starts tomorrow. You can vote in person
Speaker 2: at your Board of Elections starting tomorrow morning. You can
Speaker 2: find your location and hours at vote Ohio dot gov.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's also when absentee ballots go out in the mail,
Speaker 2: so if you requested one already, those get mailed out tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and there's still time to request an empty ballot. And
Speaker 2: of course election day polls will be open from until
Speaker 2: seven thirty pm, and that's in twenty eight days, twenty
Speaker 2: one hours and twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Frank LeRose, this sounds like a lot of voter suppression
Speaker 1: to me. I can see why the Democrats are unhappy
Speaker 1: with this process. It's hard to vote, very difficult. You
Speaker 1: can't get registered, very very very hard. But once again,
Speaker 1: if you're on your couch listening this Monday afternoon, you
Speaker 1: can actually register vote from your couch. And Tony Bender,
Speaker 1: who lives in Foundmouth but often votes in Ohio, what
Speaker 1: is the website If somebody on their couch eating their
Speaker 1: bomb bonds and some and cheese doodles would like to
Speaker 1: register to vote without leaving their couch, what is the website? Again,
Speaker 1: this is all voter suppression, by the way, But what
Speaker 1: is the website?
Speaker 2: It's vote Ohio dot gov. I'll tell you what, Willy.
Speaker 2: Even folks on the left know that's nonsense. There was
Speaker 2: a poll I saw recently among Ohioans, even among Democrats,
Speaker 2: over ninety percent believe that it is easy to vote
Speaker 2: in Ohio. So left and those the handwringers on the
Speaker 2: left people know it's bs.
Speaker 1: I don't believe any of that. It's just hard to vote.
Speaker 1: You have all these rules and regulations. You got to
Speaker 1: get an ID. I mean you got to get off
Speaker 1: your couch. No, you don't have to get off your couch.
Speaker 1: You stay on your couch and the absentee ballot comes
Speaker 1: to your home. Just go to the mailbox, get it
Speaker 1: and vote. But that sounds terrible, very difficult. Can you
Speaker 1: tell us again about State Issue one. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of misinformation out there about what is State Issue one?
Speaker 1: Go down the middle? What is statusue one? What does
Speaker 1: this seek to do? If anything?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, if you want to read all
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand words that are included in this massive, massive,
Speaker 2: proposed constitutional then the thirteen thousand words you can find
Speaker 2: those on my website again vot Ohio dot gov. You
Speaker 2: can see the official ballot language, which thankfully was upheld
Speaker 2: by the Ohas Supreme Court. When we wrote that language,
Speaker 2: we were brutally honest about what this thing is, and
Speaker 2: thankfully the court upheld it because it is truthful. What
Speaker 2: this is is a massive power grab by the left.
Speaker 2: They want to try to change the way district lines
Speaker 2: are drawn to give themselves an advantage in elections. And
Speaker 2: it's important for Ohio voters to understand that this unelected,
Speaker 2: unaccountable commission would be responsible for gerrymandering the state to
Speaker 2: create a certain number of democratic districts. It's also important
Speaker 2: for people to understand that who's paying for this. Twenty
Speaker 2: six million dollars have already come in to support the
Speaker 2: yes on Issue one side, and it's being funded by
Speaker 2: out of state special interests. Eighty five percent of those
Speaker 2: twenty six million dollars come from out of Ohio, including
Speaker 2: six million dollars from a Swiss billionaire. Yes, you heard me,
Speaker 2: righte Switzerland, like the little red pocket knives and pots
Speaker 2: upon due and mountain horns. I don't know why a
Speaker 2: guy from Switzerland thinks it's okay to try to influence
Speaker 2: the way Ohio draws district lines. But that's what they're
Speaker 2: attempting to do.
Speaker 1: And so if a state issue one passes, it means
Speaker 1: that voters will no longer have the power to select
Speaker 1: the members of the reapportionment Commission. Is that true?
Speaker 2: That's correct? And say President Trump has a good thing.
Speaker 2: He's been blunt about this. If I can't fire you,
Speaker 2: you don't actually work for me. Right. If you can't
Speaker 2: fire somebody, then there's no accountability. And this commission would
Speaker 2: be put in place by a group of retired judges,
Speaker 2: and we can't fire them, we can't hold them accountable.
Speaker 2: And what's worse, they would be charged with the job
Speaker 2: of literally they're told to jerrymander the state to create
Speaker 2: a specific number of democratic districts. It's a dangerous thing.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you need only look as far
Speaker 2: as the state of Michigan that passed virtually the same
Speaker 2: plan in twenty eighteen to see what happens. It's a
Speaker 2: bad deal.
Speaker 1: Well, to give the American people an example, I just googled.
Speaker 1: I asked Google how many words are there in the
Speaker 1: United States Constitution including all the amendments. The total number
Speaker 1: of words in the US Constitution plus all the amendments
Speaker 1: is seven thousand, five hundred ninety one seventy five ninety
Speaker 1: one total words in the US Constitution.
Speaker 2: How many words are in this amendment thirteen thousand, which
Speaker 2: means it's almost twice as long. Just this amendment is
Speaker 2: almost twice as long as the entire US Constitution, the
Speaker 2: most enduring constitution in all of human history.
Speaker 1: So on State Issue one, if it passes, this non
Speaker 1: elected board of retired judges would get together and decide
Speaker 1: who's on the commission, who's not on the commission, and
Speaker 1: if they screw up, the voters will have no say whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And in voting for right now, there's five members of
Speaker 1: the of the of the Commission, and the American people
Speaker 1: vote for the governor, they vote for the secretary of State,
Speaker 1: they vote for the state auditor, they vote for the
Speaker 1: Democratic representative, if they vote for the Republican representative, and
Speaker 1: if you're unhappy with it, you can kick them out
Speaker 1: of office. If this thing passes, please go please interfere,
Speaker 1: go ahead, what do you want to.
Speaker 2: And by the way, they had the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 2: I was part of the registricting Commission. We draw new
Speaker 2: we drew new life. And then I was on the
Speaker 2: ballot just a few months later, and I received more
Speaker 2: votes than anybody in the history of the office of
Speaker 2: Secretary of State's ever gotten. So evidently the voters of
Speaker 2: Ohio were happy with the work that we did, at
Speaker 2: least in part, because they re elected me resoundingly. And
Speaker 2: same with the governor, same with the auditor.
Speaker 1: So if someone in Switzerland wants to spend six million
Speaker 1: dollars to influence Ohioans, why don't the left wing Democrats
Speaker 1: do the same thing, saying California or New York or
Speaker 1: New Jersey, why not?
Speaker 2: Well, what they figured out is that they can't get
Speaker 2: their radical leftist agenda done through our state legislature, so
Speaker 2: they're going straight to the constitution. And this is, by
Speaker 2: the way, we warned about this last year. This is
Speaker 2: only one of a series. You're going to see an
Speaker 2: effort to try to massively increase minimum wage that's probably
Speaker 2: going to be on the ballot next year. They're gathering signatures.
Speaker 2: They want to eliminate what's called qualified immunity. This is
Speaker 2: the legal protection that police officers get when they lawfully
Speaker 2: conduct their work. There's no shortage of bats ideas that
Speaker 2: are coming our way because it's been determined by these
Speaker 2: folks that the Ohio Constitution is for sale to the
Speaker 2: highest bidder. And that's dangerous.
Speaker 1: So Frank Lerosa, Secretary State, if you don't went at
Speaker 1: the ballot box, gets Swiss millionaires, billionaires to donate money
Speaker 1: to twist and turn an issue to make it look
Speaker 1: as if we the people have arisen and now we're
Speaker 1: going to make sure that we have the right apportionment
Speaker 1: to make sure like Warren County, for example, would be
Speaker 1: part of Dayton, would be part of Cincinnati. So if
Speaker 1: you're in a red district like Claremont County, you'd be
Speaker 1: in with Hamilton County and suddenly your vote won't matter
Speaker 1: at all. So by not getting a vote, that's called democracy.
Speaker 1: Is that correct?
Speaker 2: Well? In what they will do is what they did
Speaker 2: in Michigan. So the city of Detroit is a seventy
Speaker 2: six percent African American city and for eighty years they've
Speaker 2: had at least one black member of Congress. Today, now
Speaker 2: that Michigan has put in place virtually the same plan,
Speaker 2: the city of Detroit has no Black representation because they
Speaker 2: crack urban populations. They grab a certain portion of it,
Speaker 2: and then they drag that district like a spiderweb all
Speaker 2: the way out into the suburbs to try to create
Speaker 2: majority democratic districts. And what they do is dilute minority representation.
Speaker 2: It's an ugly thing, but it's a power grab by
Speaker 2: the left, and we need to call it out for
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 1: Many people say it's likely to pass because it sounds good.
Speaker 1: Is that about? I hope no one comes to the
Speaker 1: ballot box and stands there and tries to read thirteen
Speaker 1: thousand words. And when that happens, that drives me a
Speaker 1: bit nuts because you ought to go in form. You
Speaker 1: don't vote. What you do is cast a ballot, which
Speaker 1: means become informed ahead of time. Then go cast your ballot.
Speaker 1: You don't show up and say, by the way, Betty,
Speaker 1: what's on the ballot? Let's read this thing? How many
Speaker 1: words are on the ballot? You actually vote, actually going
Speaker 1: to read? Is it hundreds of words?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's a couple hundred. It's Here's what we did. Though,
Speaker 2: the law requires that we publish the full text in newspapers,
Speaker 2: So this is, I guess, really good business for the
Speaker 2: newspapers that are otherwise struggling, but the law. So we're
Speaker 2: publishing in state papers all over the state the full text,
Speaker 2: including the argument for and against by each of the groups,
Speaker 2: and we're also publishing the ballot language. You've got plenty
Speaker 2: of opportunities to look at that. You can go to
Speaker 2: our website and look at it on the wall at
Speaker 2: your polling location. There's going to be a huge poster.
Speaker 2: We just mailed it. It's like the size of a bedsheet.
Speaker 2: We just mailed these things out to every polling location,
Speaker 2: and so you can step out of line so you're
Speaker 2: not holding everybody else up. If you want to read
Speaker 2: all thirteen thousand words, it'll be posted on the wall.
Speaker 2: And then what's on your ballot actually printed on the
Speaker 2: ballot is passed by a body eye chair called the
Speaker 2: Ohio Ballot Board, and that's about nine hundred words. It's
Speaker 2: really it's impossible to summarize a thirteen thousand word amendment
Speaker 2: in any shorter fashion, and so we summarized it the
Speaker 2: best we could. It was very blunt and lays out
Speaker 2: exactly what this thing does. And then again, it has
Speaker 2: been approved by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: Is there any judicial review if this thing passes? Which
Speaker 1: I don't know the polling indicase, yes or no. Well,
Speaker 1: I think an informed electorate is the best success of
Speaker 1: a future society to have informed voters actually voting and
Speaker 1: actually determining what they're voting for. But what happens if
Speaker 1: this thing passes and this brand new board of experts
Speaker 1: get together and they screw it up completely? Is their
Speaker 1: judicial review?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Certainly. And I'm not a lawyer, but my hope
Speaker 2: is that the people of Ohio look at this and
Speaker 2: reject it on its face for the power grab that
Speaker 2: it is. But if it passes, the people that wrote
Speaker 2: it were very crafty to put in what's called a
Speaker 2: severability clause, which basically means that even if the court
Speaker 2: strikes down parts of it, the rest of it still stands.
Speaker 2: They did that intentionally because the number of the things
Speaker 2: in there I think are very clearly questionable legally. One
Speaker 2: of them, which I think is the first Amendment violation,
Speaker 2: is that you're not allowed to talk to members of
Speaker 2: the commission. Literally, you're not allowed if your kids play
Speaker 2: soccer with their kids and you see them on the
Speaker 2: soccer field and you bring up literally it says you
Speaker 2: may not talk to members of the Redistricting Commission about
Speaker 2: the public work that they're being paid by the taxpayers
Speaker 2: to do. The only way you can talk to them
Speaker 2: is in a public meeting called by the Redistricting Commission.
Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty clear first of it's a
Speaker 2: common sense violation. I think it's the first Amendment violation
Speaker 2: that you can't talk to these public officials and tell them, hey,
Speaker 2: we think you're doing a bad job. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, we get the government we deserve. That often concerns me. Lastly,
Speaker 1: I anticipate in Ohio that by midnight on election night,
Speaker 1: or certainly by the next morning, we're going to know
Speaker 1: the result. I can't recall it going past more than
Speaker 1: six to twelve hours. I'm told in Pennsylvania may take
Speaker 1: several days. Florida, despite the hurricanes, are going to be
Speaker 1: done by ten pm eleven pm. Why the states like
Speaker 1: Ohio and Florida have the results Kentucky closes the polls
Speaker 1: like at six pm, and we have the results at
Speaker 1: nine ten o'clock at night. How come Pennsylvania and other
Speaker 1: states take days, weeks, or months to determine who won
Speaker 1: a race. Why is that possible in today's world?
Speaker 2: Wellie, we have a saying in the military. Maybe sounds
Speaker 2: a little dramatic, but we say that you sweat in
Speaker 2: training so you don't bleed in battle. What that means
Speaker 2: is you do the prep work in advance so that
Speaker 2: when the action comes, you're ready to go. And it
Speaker 2: comes down to logistics. In Ohio, for example, when you
Speaker 2: mail in your abstey ballots, say you mail it in
Speaker 2: next week, it'll arrive at the Board of Election by
Speaker 2: mid October, that'll be cut open, the signature will be checked,
Speaker 2: the verification of the last four of your Social Security
Speaker 2: number or state driver's license number, all that data is checked,
Speaker 2: that thing gets flattened out, all the folds get taken
Speaker 2: out of it so that it's ready to go through
Speaker 2: the scanner. Right at seven thirty on election night. When
Speaker 2: you start seeing results at eight eight fifteen, eight thirty,
Speaker 2: those are the early votes because they're already at the
Speaker 2: Board of Elections. The absentee ballots and the early vote
Speaker 2: ballots are ready to count, and we count those first
Speaker 2: in Ohio. In Pennsylvania, and I've warned again about this.
Speaker 2: I've testified in the Pennsylvania State Senate multiple time, and
Speaker 2: I've told them, hey, this is what you're getting wrong, guys,
Speaker 2: and they still haven't fixed it. In Pennsylvania, they don't
Speaker 2: even start cutting open envelopes until election day, and so
Speaker 2: just the act of cutting open tens of maybe hundreds
Speaker 2: of thousands of envelopes is going to take them time.
Speaker 2: In Ohio, we give you the results on election night
Speaker 2: because we prepare for that in advance. We don't count
Speaker 2: a single vote until seven thirty on election night. But
Speaker 2: once seven thirty comes, we are ready to count them.
Speaker 2: And that's why by ten eleven o'clock on election night
Speaker 2: will be at about ninety percent. It'll take us till
Speaker 2: three or four am on Wednesday morning to get to
Speaker 2: the full one hundred percent onofficial count, But before we
Speaker 2: go to bed early in the wee hours of Wednesday morning,
Speaker 2: we will have reported one hundred percent of Ohio's election
Speaker 2: day count.
Speaker 1: And I would point out I saw a California TV
Speaker 1: interview last night that said that it is discrimination to
Speaker 1: verify a signature. That is not fair to someone who
Speaker 1: can't sign their name to require signature of verification, that
Speaker 1: is absurd. Tony Bender once again, give the website. If
Speaker 1: you're on your couch eating your Doritos and you're fat
Speaker 1: and lazy and don't want to leave, what is the
Speaker 1: website today to go online? If you can do that
Speaker 1: and actually get an absentee ballot away, you go.
Speaker 2: What is the website and it works if you're active
Speaker 2: and fit as well, vote Ohio dot gov is the
Speaker 2: place to go. And by the way, that signature verification thing,
Speaker 2: that's one of the lawsuits they filed against me to
Speaker 2: try to get us to stop checking signature. We won
Speaker 2: that lawsuit, but of course you know that's not discriminatory.
Speaker 2: It's been practiced in Ohio for two hundred plus years
Speaker 2: to check signatures, to verify the people are who they
Speaker 2: say they are.
Speaker 1: Well, Franklerosa, you know this is voter suppression.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 1: And you're practicing all these things to make sure it's
Speaker 1: easy to easy to vote and hard to cheat, because
Speaker 1: you're really suppressing everyone's vote. But good luck and all
Speaker 1: your efforts, and Franklerosa, we'll see what happens on election night.
Speaker 1: Today is the deadline. Tomorrow it all begins. Frank Loroso
Speaker 1: once again, three four seven one one. Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Frank, you're a
Speaker 1: great American.
Speaker 2: Thanks Willie, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: God bless God Bless America. Let's continue with more, and
Speaker 1: God bless the Bengals. Bengals. Is Joe Burrow bengalized. He's
Speaker 1: got that virus that anthrax infused a blanket given to
Speaker 1: him by the soldiers as a Plains Indian. Is Burrow bengalized?
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