WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.359 Some of you have seen or heard or read these 2 00:00:02.399 --> 00:00:10.640 stories about how California is still counting its ballots, and 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.279 people say something like, who is it that you know? 4 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:18.440 Name your country? You know India? I saw a static 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:19.519 this about India. 6 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:26.039 The entire country of India counted six hundred million ballots 7 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.640 casts in their election in one day. But California it's 8 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:33.399 taking a whole month to count fifteen million votes. How 9 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:33.920 can they do that. 10 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:44.280 It's on purpose. This isn't incompetence. It isn't like a failure. 11 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.719 It's deliberate. It's intentional. They intentionally want the process to 12 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:51.719 last long. 13 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:53.960 So that. 14 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:02.600 Moneyed political interests, the side with more money can have 15 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:06.000 the capacity to pull out a win in a tight election. 16 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:14.599 Exhibit A. The John Duarte versus Adam Gray race for 17 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:20.359 that congressional seat sort of north goes from kinda west side, 18 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.599 going from through West Fresno County up all the way 19 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:35.519 almost approaching Modesto. In Modesto, here's the story about what's happening. 20 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:41.120 How Christine Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's daughter of all people, is 21 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:46.200 now a key player in this ongoing razor thin tight race. 22 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.079 And it's ongoing because the votes are still being counted, 23 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:57.359 and it has to do with this interesting California process 24 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:08.360 of curing ballots that have some kind of mistake. Here's 25 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:16.439 the story in GV wire. Christine Pelosi leads charge and 26 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.800 just get this insanely biased headline, Christine Pelosi leads charge 27 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:26.800 to ensure every vote counts in tight Duarte Gray race. 28 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:33.960 In a closely contested California House race. Christine Pelosi, daughter 29 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.479 of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. Really we're calling her the 30 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:43.759 emerita speaker emerita for those who don't know that. The 31 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:48.479 title emeritus from male or emerita for a female. That's 32 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.520 like given to a professor who is like honorably retired 33 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:55.039 from their posts, like the speaker, the professor emeritus of 34 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:55.759 blah blah. 35 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.080 Blah, and I I've never heard of anyone being called 36 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:05.560 a speaker emeritus other than Nancy Pelosi. All right, anyway, 37 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:10.520 daughter of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, has joined a group 38 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.280 of volunteers working to quote cure ballots with signature issues. 39 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.039 The race between Republican Representative John Duarte and Democratic challenger 40 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.039 Adam Gray in the Central Valley's thirteenth district is separated 41 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.719 by just two hundred and ten votes as of Friday. 42 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.520 What do we mean by curing a ballot that has 43 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.919 a signature issue. Curing involves fixing problems with voters' ballots 44 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:42.400 to ensure they can be counted before the December third deadline. 45 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:45.879 Pelosi told the San Francisco Chronicle she was quote staking 46 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:49.919 out a modesto home hoping to connect with a voter 47 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.120 whose ballot was rejected due to a signature problem. Elizabeth Churr, 48 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.039 another San Francisco volunteer, estimates she's cured twenty five ballots 49 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:02.319 in the last week. We're also letting you know that 50 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:04.960 wasn't spam, because a lot of people get post election 51 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.719 emails and texts and they just delete them thinking they're spam, 52 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:13.439 Pelosi explained to one voter. Both campaigns engaged in curing efforts. 53 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.920 Both campaigns are engaged in this effort, which could prove 54 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:20.839 decisive in the razor thin race. Adam Gray stated, that's 55 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:23.399 all part of making sure that every vote is counted. 56 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:29.279 So let me explain what's going on. 57 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:36.160 California has universal vote by mail, so everyone can turn 58 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:40.879 in a mail in ballot and it has a signature requirement. Well, 59 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:47.120 if elections officials note some problem with the signature I 60 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:53.000 either isn't a signature or the signatures totally don't match up, 61 00:04:55.079 --> 00:05:01.079 they don't count that vote. What Demo Tucrats have been 62 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:09.240 doing is after an election is over, before the sort 63 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:16.199 of certification deadline, which is apparently December third, so you know, 64 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:23.680 a solid month following the election, Democrats, who have much 65 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:27.240 more money than Republicans on the hole in California. And 66 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:32.240 by the way, this is a California specific thing. Democrats 67 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.040 identify these ballots that have been turned in but have 68 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.519 a problem with them, and reconnect with the voter who 69 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.879 allegedly turned them in to try to get that voter 70 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:49.720 to quote, cure their ballot, fix their ballot, to fix 71 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:55.240 whatever signature issue may have existed in order for that 72 00:05:55.360 --> 00:06:03.439 ballot to then count California did the Democrats in California 73 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:06.759 did this earlier this year in March. They had this 74 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.560 Proposition one. So Proposition one was this ballot initiative. It 75 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:14.279 was supposed to fund some kind of like mental health services. Anyway, 76 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.839 it was something Democrats wanted to pass and this we 77 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:24.079 voted on it during the March California primary election. They 78 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:28.079 also had this statewide ballot initiative, and it was about 79 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:34.079 a fifty to fifty thing. It was very close after 80 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:38.680 election night, it was very close. And what did Gavin 81 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.720 Newsom do well? Gavin Newsom wanted this past. Gavin Newsom 82 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.639 has this massive war chest of campaign money that he's 83 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.240 still got. It's basically leftovers from his recall campaign. And 84 00:06:51.279 --> 00:06:55.480 this was actually, this is the real flop of the 85 00:06:55.519 --> 00:07:05.639 effort to recall Governor Newsom is that basically we tried 86 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.519 to recall Newsom and he was able to fundraise so 87 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:12.759 much money off of it that now he's got this 88 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.319 war chest that he uses for all kinds of stuff. 89 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:20.839 So he used it this money earlier this year on 90 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:28.480 a massive statewide Cure your Ballot campaign to help ensure 91 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:32.600 that this Proposition one, which was again introduced earlier this year, 92 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.480 to help make sure that Proposition one got over the 93 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.319 fifty percent hump. And that's what Democrats are doing. Basically, 94 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.720 the reason why it takes California a long time to 95 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:48.480 count votes is not due to incompetence. It's not because 96 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.480 people are slow, it's not any of that. It is deliberate. 97 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:59.720 This is the deliberate reason why Democrats do. This is 98 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.800 so they can get these highly sketchy, highly questionable ballots 99 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.800 that were turned in without a signature or the signature 100 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:09.839 didn't match something, take it back to the voter. So, 101 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.279 oh it didn't go through. Do you want to try 102 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:24.560 and fix it? Wink wink, nudge, nudge, hint hint, And 103 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.839 they they bring it back to these voters and make 104 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.680 sure that these voters fix their ballot, and then they 105 00:08:31.720 --> 00:08:35.840 get more and more votes. So this Adam Gray John 106 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:42.279 Duarte race. Duarte was leading on election day. d'Arte has 107 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:46.600 been leading for most of the time frame since election day, 108 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.200 but his lead is getting narrower and narrower. He's only 109 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:57.200 up two hundred and ten votes. So by the time 110 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:59.200 this is all said and done, I mean, they could 111 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:05.080 cure enough ballots in this congressional district to maybe get 112 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:08.919 Adam Gray over the top. But that's what this is about. 113 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.399 It's about Democrats in a tight race knowing that they 114 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.679 have more money, more of a political machine than Republicans 115 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:18.320 have in California, almost anywhere in California. They're gonna have 116 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.320 more resources, more money, more get out the vote efforts, 117 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:25.960 more get out the cur your vote efforts, and so 118 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.240 they would have more of an ability to cure more 119 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:33.080 votes and maybe swing an election. That's the whole point 120 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:38.840 of this. It's basically institutionalized cheating. Like this is a 121 00:09:38.879 --> 00:09:48.840 ballot that was incorrectly cast, it shouldn't count. But and 122 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.399 this is the insanity is first of all, the insanity 123 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.279 of how the media is framing this. This is a 124 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.639 San Francisco Chronicle story. I don't know who wrote this 125 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.240 headline on reading it on GV wire, Christine palo He 126 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:04.039 leads charge to ensure every vote counts in tight Duarte 127 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:09.679 careers ball You know what, No, she doesn't care about 128 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:15.039 every vote being counted. She wants every Democrat vote counted. 129 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.720 What do you think she's doing. She's not there with 130 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.679 an altruistic desire for democracy to reign. No, she wants 131 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:28.279 to get this Democrat elected in a swing seat. That's 132 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:32.399 what she's doing. She's a Democratic Party hack. That That's 133 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:36.039 who Christine Pelosi is. She's not interested in the all 134 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:39.759 truistic Oh, this poor old Republican farmer out on the 135 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.039 West Side. He didn't he didn't quite you know, the 136 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.120 way he signed his handkerchief or whoever. Since he had 137 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.240 that stroke, his signature hasn't matched, So we got to 138 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:51.600 make sure that he's able to vote because his mind's 139 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:53.639 still sharp, but his right hand doesn't work so well. 140 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:55.639 So so we got to make sure that that old 141 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:58.639 Republican farmer who voted for John Duarte got to make 142 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:02.440 sure his vote actually count. Because I'm Christine Pelosi, ignore 143 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:06.120 my last name. What I care about is democracy in action. 144 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.240 That's what this is all. No, she's a Democrat hack. 145 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:12.480 She wants John Duarte to lose, she wants Adam Gray 146 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:17.519 to win. She's out there curing obvious likely Democrat voters ballots. 147 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:23.159 That's what she's doing. How they could have written this headline, 148 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.960 Christine Pelosi leads the charge to ensure every vote counts 149 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:32.120 in tight Duarte Gray. No, she doesn't give a she 150 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.320 doesn't want any Republican vote count. That's not the point 151 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:38.879 of what she's doing. I think even she'd tell you 152 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:46.600 that she's there to cure the Democrat votes. So, I 153 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:50.200 mean that is precisely what is happening. Is that is 154 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.679 the reason why it takes a long time to count 155 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:55.480 the votes in California. It's not. It has nothing to 156 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:58.320 do with incompetence, it has nothing to do with Oh, 157 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.080 they're so slow, how come these No, it's on purpose. 158 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.759 They deliberately count ballots slowly so that they can cure 159 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:11.600 ballots so that Democrats can win. That is it. And 160 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.519 this is a legal process in California. It's baked into 161 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:17.960 California law because the Democrats have written all of our 162 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:24.320 election law over the last fourteen years of completely unified 163 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:31.320 Democrat ruling California. So again, this is this is all 164 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.000 on purpose. When we return, I just want to talk 165 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:38.639 about how this relates to the idea of the whole 166 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.480 Democrat push for quote voting rights. As they characterize it 167 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:47.679 is nothing more than a subtle cover for let's try 168 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.559 to institute processes that we think will result in Democrats winning. 169 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:56.080 That's next on the John Girardi Show. We're talking about 170 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:03.320 Christine Pelosi's efforts in the thirteenth California US the thirteenth 171 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.639 Congressional district of California, the race between John Duarte and 172 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.720 Adam Gray. This is the kind of North Valley sort 173 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.600 of on the west side, going up north towards Modesto 174 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:20.000 Congressional District. Christine Pelosi is spearheading the Democrat efforts to 175 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:24.200 quote cure ballots, and what that means is this is 176 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:29.120 basically the institutionalized form of cheating that Democrats have the 177 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:34.120 advantage in in California elections, where basically, if it's really close, Democrats, 178 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:37.159 who always have more money, more apparatus, more infrastructure than 179 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:41.559 Republicans do. Democrats will take all the ballots that have 180 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.320 signature issues, all the vote by mail ballots that have 181 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.759 signature issues, no signature, the signature doesn't match the problem there, 182 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.120 they will try to go back to their likely voters 183 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:55.240 and say, hey, your signature was screwed up. Could you 184 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.200 try and fix this? And then your votal count and 185 00:13:57.200 --> 00:13:59.519 then they go back to their voters and they collect 186 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:08.200 or vote well after election day. That is why California 187 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.879 takes a long time to do elections because on purpose, 188 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.879 we have this ridiculous system where you're able to quote 189 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:21.840 cure your ballot when you've cast it inadequately. And this 190 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:26.960 relates to the whole rhetoric surrounding Democrats saying that they 191 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.200 are four voting rights and the way that the media 192 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:35.919 has sort of unflinchingly done propaganda work for Democrats to 193 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:38.879 talk about how Democrats are trying to vote Democrats are 194 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:43.600 pursuing legislation to protect voting rights. Republicans are opposing Democrats 195 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.919 voting rights legislation. Blah blah blah blah blah, Christine, And 196 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.720 this has to be the most ridiculous headline of the 197 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.399 whole year. This gv wire piece, which was this GV 198 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:59.679 wire rerunning a San Francisco Chronicle piece where the headline 199 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:01.519 and the Again, I don't know if GeV wire wrote 200 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.120 this headline who or if they're just re doing the 201 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:09.600 San Francisco Chronicle headline. Christine Pelosi leads charge to ensure 202 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:14.039 every vote counts in tight Duarte Gray race. No, she 203 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.759 is not interested in getting every vote to count. She's 204 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:21.559 a Democrat party hack. She's trying to get Adam Gray 205 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:24.840 to win. She's trying to cure all the Democrat ballots 206 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:27.879 that are screwed up. She is not trying her best 207 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.600 to cure, you know, the ballots of some Republican farmer 208 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:32.879 from the West Side who obviously voted for John Duarte 209 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:34.679 but maybe a signature didn't match because he had a 210 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:41.519 stroke or something. And what I'm trying to explain is 211 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:47.679 California takes a long time to count its votes. To 212 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:51.960 count its ballots after election day on purpose. This is 213 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.840 an on purpose setup so that Democrats can cure enough 214 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.440 votes so that they can get themselves over the top 215 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:03.919 in the event of a really tight election. It's basically 216 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:08.159 an institutionalized way for Democrats to cheat, because in any 217 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.799 other state, if you had a vote by mail ballot 218 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.960 come in with a serious signature problem, it just wouldn't count, 219 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:20.440 and there wouldn't be an opportunity to quote cure it. Now, 220 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:25.679 Democrats when they talk about voting rights, they're talking about 221 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:29.639 stuff like this. They're saying that if you're an evil, 222 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.919 nasty Republican and you think, hey, I don't think we 223 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:39.279 should have some process for four weeks after the election 224 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:45.399 you being able to fix an obvious signature problem with 225 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.679 your ballot that you turn in. You didn't follow the rules, 226 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.639 you didn't put your signature on your ballot. You screwed, 227 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:58.639 You've got a huge discrepancy. Sorry, you're sol you know, no, 228 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:04.839 you're This ballot is not going to count. A Republican 229 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:09.240 saying that in the interest of hey, I can see 230 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:12.599 a lot of scenarios where someone could screw around with 231 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:18.079 this and how that could threaten the integrity of this vote, 232 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.640 this ballot that there are a lot of ways for 233 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.440 a ballot like that to be cast in a way 234 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:28.759 that's fraudulent. So in the interest of the security of 235 00:17:28.759 --> 00:17:33.480 this election, no, you, okay, we'll afford someone a vote 236 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.039 by mail process, but you got to follow the directions. 237 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:39.160 You got to follow the rules. When you're doing vote 238 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:42.440 by mail, there is less of a chain of custody 239 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:47.279 surrounding that ballot. There's more opportunity for fraud to happen. Ergo, 240 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:49.720 we're going to require Okay, we'll let you do a 241 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:51.839 vote by mail, but it's got to be done right. 242 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:53.720 It's got to be done like this, this, this, and this. 243 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:58.720 The ballot's got to come to the county elections office 244 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:00.559 by this date. You have to make it in by 245 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:06.319 this date. Blah blah, blah blah blah. So a Republican 246 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:11.559 saying that Democrats cast that as being anti democratic, opposed 247 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:21.079 to voting rights, which is nonsense. What is the norm 248 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:27.519 for voting in America? The norm that has been established 249 00:18:28.039 --> 00:18:30.599 over the last you know, coming up on two hundred 250 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.319 and fifty years of this country's existence. The norm that 251 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:40.640 has developed, which is reflected in federal statutes, the norm 252 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.079 for how an American exercises his or her voting rights 253 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:52.440 is voting in person at your precinct at a secret 254 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:57.160 ballot booth. That is the norm. That is the favored ideal. 255 00:18:59.440 --> 00:19:05.799 Everything else has been an extension of that, a concession 256 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.839 from that ideal. In the light of some kind of 257 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:17.799 exigen circumstance or another, you should vote in person on 258 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:24.680 election day. The state will grant you some concession to 259 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:29.200 vote absentee in the light of some serious circumstance or 260 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:37.640 some sort of unavoidable, difficult circumstance. Okay, I myself voted absentee. 261 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:43.839 I was a college student in Indiana, but my primary 262 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.119 residence I still listed it as my home, my childhood 263 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:51.559 home in Clovis, California. So I voted absentee. A military 264 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:56.079 service member who's deployed to Iraq, okay, well, his home 265 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.839 is in Topeka, Kansas. So the state of Kansas sends 266 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.559 it is absentee ballot. Okay, that's fine. But the soldier 267 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:09.359 in Iraq voting in Kansas, and the college student in 268 00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:12.559 Indiana voting in California, they've got to do it right. 269 00:20:14.200 --> 00:20:16.759 You've got to mail in your ballot by this date. 270 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.359 You need to fill everything right, you need to seal 271 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.440 it correctly, you need to sign it correctly. Why because 272 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:28.440 the ideal that we've arrived at in America of in 273 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:32.359 person at your local precinct, at a secret ballot booth. 274 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.839 We have determined that is the most secure way to vote, 275 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.119 the way with the least amount of pressure, the least 276 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:46.519 amount of undue outside influence pressuring someone into voting against 277 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:50.240 what they actually want. The whole concept of the secret 278 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.519 ballot was developed in the nineteenth century actually in Australia, 279 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:55.880 and it was in response to these Australian elections that 280 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:00.559 were just turning into drunken brawls where people would vote 281 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:02.799 just sort of out in public and everyone could see 282 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:06.160 who you're voting for. So you'd have gangs of hooligans. 283 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.759 Imagine gangs of Australian hooligans. What could be more terrifying 284 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.920 beating people up for voting against what they wanted. And 285 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.480 eventually the Australian authorities were like, this is idiotic. Let's 286 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.400 just have people vote in private and no one can 287 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:25.799 see what you're voting for and is nobody's business. And 288 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:28.880 that was such a good idea that within about forty years. 289 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.400 Basically every English speaking country in the world adopted it, America, 290 00:21:33.480 --> 00:21:37.599 Great Britain, et cetera. In fact, it was a centerpiece 291 00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:41.519 of Democrat messaging this election cycle. They had all these 292 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:46.880 ads out showing women in Republican coded areas saying, ladies, 293 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:49.079 you don't need to do what your husband says. You 294 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:52.839 can vote for Kamala Harris. You're in. It's your vote. 295 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:54.839 You don't even need to tell your husband. It'll just 296 00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:57.240 be our little secret. And it's these women voting at 297 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:05.079 a at a secret ballot boot. It's like the Democrats 298 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.880 acknowledge the superiority of this method of voting because it 299 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.519 keeps you totally free from undue influence, unlike, for example, 300 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.799 vote by mail, where presumably it's a husband and wife 301 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:19.279 in their home, like, hey, you're gonna fill out your ballot, 302 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:22.400 let's fill out our ballots or I mean, the secret 303 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.720 ballot gives you more security than vote by mail. So 304 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:33.720 this notion that Republicans are anti democratic because they want 305 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.480 some kind of limits on Hey, I don't think we 306 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:40.680 should be accepting vote by mail ballots that are undated. Hey, 307 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:42.720 I don't think we should be accepting vote by mail 308 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:46.680 ballots that are arriving well after election day. Hey, I 309 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:50.079 think we need to ensure that the signatures on these 310 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.599 match up. Hey, I think people should present some kind 311 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:56.960 of id to ensure that they're actually eligible to vote, 312 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:00.839 that they're actually citizens of legal age. Hey, I think 313 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:04.839 we should have a registration that happens more than one 314 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:09.720 day before the election, just again to ensure that the 315 00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:15.240 correct people are voting. That is deemed to be undemocratic. No, 316 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:20.720 the norm in America is a registered voter voting in 317 00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:25.960 person at their precinct. Anything else at a secret ballot. 318 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:31.440 Anything else that's outside of that is a concession, an extension, 319 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:34.000 and if you're going to do it, you have to 320 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:39.960 follow the rules. But again, what Democrats have set up 321 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:43.240 in California is an institutionalized way for them to basically 322 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:46.240 cheat with this whole curing ballot system, which in any 323 00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:50.319 other context people would just say this is completely ridiculous. 324 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:53.039 When we return, the city has been cracking down on 325 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:55.799 smoke shops for the last year. Here are the results. 326 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:01.319 Next on the John Girardi Show. One pet peeve of mine, 327 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:06.160 as someone who read a little bit of American history, 328 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.599 I won't say I'm an American history buff or anything. 329 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:11.640 But one of the things that sort of annoys me 330 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:18.200 is kind of the baby boomer accepted wisdom about Prohibition, 331 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.279 And I don't know that it's even baby boomer accepted wisdom. 332 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:28.440 Might have been even pre baby Boomer accepted wisdom. Prohibition 333 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:35.599 was the era in American life where, for the results 334 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:41.599 of a constitutional amendment, alcohol sales were largely restricted throughout 335 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:50.559 the United States of America, and this resulted in a 336 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:57.759 number of criminal enterprises of bootlegging, of trying to illegally 337 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:01.839 transport alcohol into the United States in order to continue 338 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:09.799 selling alcohol to people. The concept of speakeasease and all 339 00:25:09.880 --> 00:25:14.079 kinds of you know, it's you know, subterfuge, illeg you know, 340 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.480 quasi illegal legal slash illegal facilities where people would go 341 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:23.839 to get a drink became fairly widespread, or at least 342 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:28.319 that's the perception we have. And people tend to take 343 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:33.240 the historical position that prohibition was silly. It was just 344 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:35.960 a bunch of dumb Christians who came up with this 345 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:39.279 stupid idea, and it was never enforceable, and so many 346 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:43.519 people violated it. It's an example of bad law, and 347 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:49.039 it was it was not good. Now, from a historical perspective, 348 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:53.759 I think that's a little narrow minded. Let's remember prohibition 349 00:25:54.720 --> 00:25:58.960 passed as a constitutional amendment. You know how hard it 350 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.640 is to amend the constitution. You know how much widespread, 351 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:09.559 near universal public opinion in favor of something you need 352 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:15.200 to have before something can be passed as a constitutional amendment. 353 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:21.200 You need two thirds of both houses of Congress and 354 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:24.680 then three quarters of all the state legislatures to agree 355 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:30.640 on something. So huge majorities of Americans thought this was 356 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:35.119 a good idea because rates of alcoholism in this country 357 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:39.119 in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds were 358 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:44.359 astonishingly high. The number of guys who were just total 359 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:53.799 dropouts from society because of alcoholism. It was unfathomable how 360 00:26:53.880 --> 00:27:01.000 widespread alcoholism was in this country and the kinds of 361 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:04.400 social reformers who were fighting against it, many of whom 362 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.599 were women, by the way, I mean that there were 363 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:13.480 you know, let's also remember that with widespread male alcoholism 364 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:22.000 came widespread female subjugation, abuse, et cetera. And this was 365 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:26.440 in the same era that the that women's suffrage was 366 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:31.079 becoming a big deal, and the same kind of movements 367 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:33.799 that led to women getting the right to vote via 368 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:40.960 the nineteenth Amendment also led to prohibition. It also led 369 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:44.480 to other kinds of like efforts to cleanse government or 370 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:49.920 to get to ensure more government honesty and transparency. Some 371 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:53.279 of the Progressive era reforms in state governments, such as 372 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:58.559 state recall mechanisms for recalling public officials who were clearly corrupt, 373 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:03.759 ballot initialatives to bypass what people viewed as corrupt state legislatures, 374 00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:11.079 have the people directly vote on legislation referenda to basically 375 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:14.400 try to repeal, have a popular vote by the people 376 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.960 to repeal something that the state legislature had passed. California 377 00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:27.559 adopted all of these measures, So prohibition was actually thought 378 00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:30.920 reasonably by the American people to be a really important thing, 379 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:36.119 and rates of alcoholism did drop drastically. The accepted normalcy 380 00:28:36.200 --> 00:28:40.480 of alcoholism dropped drastically during the Prohibition era. So I'm 381 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.839 not here to say prohibition was perfect, but there was 382 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:47.839 a lot of good that was accomplished by it. Well. 383 00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.720 I think having a more balanced understanding of the marijuana 384 00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.720 issue would be helpful for people because the narrative that 385 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.640 the dominant sort of libertarian and liberal mindset has been 386 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.720 is see, California has outlawed marijuana for so much and 387 00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:07.119 there's just everyone's still smoking weed anyway. There's a underground market, 388 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:09.119 so we need we just need to legalize it. And 389 00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:12.119 if we legalize marijuana, all these problems will go away. 390 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:16.759 And marijuana legalization has always been sort of pitched by 391 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:21.880 its advocates as it's going to solve all these problems. 392 00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:27.599 We won't have this underground, illegal black market and all 393 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:31.640 the negative stuff that's associated with it, the crime, the cartels, 394 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:35.000 the this, the that. No, if we have a legal 395 00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:38.559 marijuana market, we just bring this black market out into 396 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:44.440 the light, have everyone purchase, sell, use marijuana legally. Then 397 00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:48.279 we won't have this illegal market. And guess what, we 398 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:52.680 can tax it. We can generate government revenue. And that 399 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:57.079 was always the big selling point for state and local governments. 400 00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:59.599 Why state and local governments over time and more and 401 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.720