Cracking down on non-citizen voting (05-03-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:29] All right, so pivoting like Ross Geller might off of the previous

[00:00:34] Hours topic headline, AP tries to explain why non-citizen voting is no big deal.

[00:00:42] Obviously not the AP. This is from hotair.com by Jazz Shaw, written a couple weeks ago actually.

[00:00:49] It's been accumulating dust in my prep pile, Pete's prep pile. With more than 10 million new

[00:00:58] arrivals in the country under Joe Biden's watch, there are concerns over how many of them might

[00:01:05] wind up trying to vote in the upcoming elections. Whether intentionally or not, right, maybe they

[00:01:13] were led to believe that they can vote. I don't know. But even worse, how many of them might

[00:01:18] get away with it? This is a threat that has been brought up by Donald Trump recently to the great

[00:01:24] alarm of his detractors in the legacy media. But he was hardly the first to raise this specter.

[00:01:32] Rushing to the rescue this weekend was the Associated Press. They want to assure everyone

[00:01:37] that Donald Trump is an orange man and is bad. And he is just engaging in conspiracy theories

[00:01:45] yet again. Non-citizen voting simply doesn't happen. Or at least not enough that it should bother you.

[00:01:56] Our voting system is safe and secure, you know, like the border. Yeah.

[00:02:08] Here's what the AP writes, quote, the theory involves two complicated subjects,

[00:02:12] immigration and voting. But it's actually very simple. There isn't any indication that

[00:02:18] non-citizens vote in significant numbers in federal elections or that they will continue

[00:02:26] in the future, or that they will in the future. It's already a crime for them to do so.

[00:02:31] And we know it's not a danger because various states have examined their roles and found very

[00:02:36] few non-citizen voters. So remember the pattern here, right? Because the pattern is

[00:02:43] always the same with this kind of thing, whether it's voter ID or it's this,

[00:02:48] the original response from the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, is that it doesn't

[00:02:55] happen. Vote fraud doesn't happen. Non-citizens voting doesn't happen. Right? The thing that you

[00:03:00] are worried about happening, it doesn't happen. Indoctrination into transgenderism in the

[00:03:05] schools doesn't happen. You know, pornographic material in the kids' libraries doesn't

[00:03:11] happen. Right? None of this happens. Then when you find examples of it actually happening,

[00:03:19] then what's the next step? The fallback position? It doesn't happen a lot. Okay, fine. You found

[00:03:28] a couple of examples of it happening. So okay, but it's not a lot. And a lot is usually meant

[00:03:35] to just be so expansive and nebulous that it just shuts down the conversation because then

[00:03:40] if you can find more examples or, you know, things that, or, you know, examples not just from

[00:03:46] here but from around the area and you just kind of pile on. And this is the way most of these

[00:03:50] social media arguments go with these people. And I've had many of them over the years and

[00:03:55] that's how I was able to determine this pattern. Right? It's denial first, then the fallback

[00:04:00] is well it just doesn't happen a lot. And then when you show the multiple, multiple,

[00:04:03] multiple examples of it, then it becomes well okay fine. It happens, you know, it happens a lot of

[00:04:11] times that you've identified but not enough to be significant. It's not a game changer. It's a,

[00:04:18] it's not enough to change the outcome of an election result. Right? So is there constant

[00:04:26] retreat? So then when you are able to point out well, you know, there was this race here

[00:04:31] that was actually settled by a coin toss in North Carolina. That's how we settled ties. Did

[00:04:36] you know that? It's true. Flip of the coin. And when you have an every election cycle,

[00:04:42] there's usually a race where it comes down to a flip of the coin. Now granted, these are,

[00:04:47] these are very local races in small towns and counties and whatnot. But it does happen.

[00:04:53] It happens regularly. Okay? I shouldn't say every election cycle, but in,

[00:05:00] I would guess probably a half, maybe one third to one half of the elections, you usually have

[00:05:08] one race somewhere decided by a coin toss. And that coin toss only was necessary because why

[00:05:18] there was a tie, which means what? A single vote could have affected the outcome of that election.

[00:05:25] Right? Yeah. So now you've presented evidence that actually it could impact an election,

[00:05:31] not to mention the census counts where we count all of the people that then determines

[00:05:39] the congressional apportionment and how many congressional seats a state gets.

[00:05:45] And then when you present that evidence, now the fallback is, well, it's not widespread enough. Okay?

[00:05:54] So first it's, well, third step is that it doesn't affect any outcomes. Then it becomes, well, not

[00:06:00] enough, which is just another reiteration of the, you know, insignificant fallback. Okay, fine.

[00:06:06] The vote for it does happen, but it's not significant. Then you show, oh, there are a

[00:06:10] lot of examples of it. Then it's like, okay, fine, but it doesn't affect an outcome.

[00:06:13] Then you show it does affect an outcome. Then it says, oh, but it's not widespread.

[00:06:17] By this point, your four levels deep into this argument and usually people leave the argument.

[00:06:24] By that point, people are done arguing. And if they're still there, they usually then pivot

[00:06:29] to something else, usually some form of, I hate Donald Trump. Okay? Donald Trump's a racist,

[00:06:35] Donald Trump slept with a porn star or whatever. Like that's where the argument usually goes,

[00:06:39] J6, right? Insurrection, whatever. That's where it usually goes. This is the same pattern.

[00:06:48] Hello, Tracy. Welcome to the program.

[00:06:51] Hey, hey, what? Yeah, what's going on?

[00:06:53] One, love the show. Thank you.

[00:06:56] Two, did they overturn an election in Union County because someone like this was valid harvesting?

[00:07:03] Wasn't that like a big thing?

[00:07:05] Yes, it was. They overturned the state board of elections actually refused to certify an election

[00:07:13] for a congressional race because of ballot harvesting. Not Union County, but it was in

[00:07:20] Robison County and Bladen County, if I recall correct. Yeah, but it was all part of that same

[00:07:24] congressional district. Oh yeah. Third statement like what you're talking about, how it doesn't

[00:07:29] really affect that much. Let me make you a batch of brownies with just a little bit of rat poison.

[00:07:34] You're going to eat it? I love it. Great example, Tracy. All right, I appreciate it. Have a great weekend.

[00:07:41] Eat it. Bye bye. Bye bye. Yeah, that's it. Just a little bit pregnant. Yeah, just a little bit

[00:07:48] of rat poison here. Eat up. That's a great example. So AP, the Associated Press, trying

[00:07:55] to let us know here that don't worry your pretty little heads over any of this. There isn't

[00:07:58] any indication that non-citizens vote in significant numbers in federal elections.

[00:08:08] Federal elections. What are they omitting? State and local. And you know why they omitted that?

[00:08:19] Because they can. Yeah, there are jurisdictions where they are allowed to vote in their local

[00:08:26] races. Mm-hmm. Yeah, blue cities and counties they've been in states have been making rule

[00:08:32] changes for these local elections, which I'm sure when an illegal immigrant comes in and they're allowed

[00:08:40] to vote in say the New York City election, I'm sure if there are any federal races on the ballot,

[00:08:45] I don't know if there are but I'm sure they would never vote in any of those other races.

[00:08:49] I'm sure they get special ballots, right? Do they get like an illegal alien ballot?

[00:08:54] Oh, sorry. Am I allowed to say that? I don't want to get suspended.

[00:08:59] To be clear, the AP says there have been cases of non-citizens casting ballots,

[00:09:05] but they are extremely rare. Those who have looked into these cases say they often involve legal

[00:09:11] immigrants, legal immigrants, who mistakenly believe they have the right to vote. Right.

[00:09:17] You know why? Motor voter because they show up to get their license or they show up to get

[00:09:24] a state issue ID and they're registered to vote or they're hanging out at their local brewery

[00:09:29] and some kids from Obama for America show up and they're like, hey, you want to register to vote.

[00:09:36] But usually if you show up to get a driver's license, they ask you check a box and then boom,

[00:09:42] you're registered to vote. Like that's when you make it so easy, you not only make it easy

[00:09:47] for people to commit the fraud but you also trap people, you ensnare them and they didn't

[00:09:53] mean to violate the law but they did because they didn't understand the form, they didn't know what

[00:09:58] they were signing, whatever. And they thought surely, surely this person on the other side of

[00:10:03] this government desk would not give me the wrong information about whether I'm eligible to vote

[00:10:11] or not. Surely. Message on the Twitter machine from Russ who says non-citizen voting,

[00:10:20] I was actually starting to type out the pattern as soon as you started the story,

[00:10:23] but then you got through the pattern before I could finish. Oh, so that's my fault now Russ?

[00:10:33] I did leave out one stage. You are correct, they're moral compass.

[00:10:39] There is one more stage that will be coming to the argument about illegals voting,

[00:10:43] which is the final stage. The final stage is always yes, it's happening and it's a good

[00:10:49] thing. They're already using the term undocumented citizen, no my fate, no, the new term is newcomers,

[00:10:57] newcomers that's the new term, newcomers. So this way you eliminate the need for documentation,

[00:11:03] right? You eliminate any references to the law like legal or illegal that that's gone,

[00:11:11] you definitely get rid of the word alien, except in vocabulary lessons which then

[00:11:15] leads to kids getting suspended, but get rid of all of those words, newcomers. Much like

[00:11:23] the space invaders in that 1990s era show alien nation, they were called newcomers,

[00:11:32] not to be confused with V, they were the visitors. Spoiler alert, they're actually reptiles,

[00:11:39] just a heads up on that. Okay, to be clear, there have been cases of non-citizens casting

[00:11:46] ballots as the AP, but it's extremely rare. The AP does not even suggest that there haven't been cases

[00:11:53] here, right? They're simply saying that it doesn't happen in significant numbers. The AP is also

[00:11:58] careful to specify that this occurred, that this doesn't really occur in federal elections,

[00:12:03] that's because some blue states and sanctuary cities are already changing the laws

[00:12:07] to allow them to vote in local and municipal races. Nothing in that AP article even begins

[00:12:13] to address the question of how Democrats want to count all of the newcomers in the census.

[00:12:19] That is actually occurring right now, right? We have 10 million more newcomers and even if one

[00:12:26] tenth of 1% of them voted or at least try to vote, that is still a mountain of votes

[00:12:31] to account for. Now, in North Carolina, the state senate has the opportunity to pass legislation

[00:12:39] that would close a loophole in the current language of the state's constitution,

[00:12:45] in which voting eligibility is a little too ambiguous when it comes to the eligibility

[00:12:50] of non-citizens. State Senators Brad Overkash, Paul Newton and Warren Daniel introduced a bill

[00:12:57] last month that would address the loophole via a ballot referendum so we'd get to vote

[00:13:02] to decide on an amendment requiring citizenship to cast a ballot. Overkash told the Carolina

[00:13:09] Journal that he does intend to bring the bill back up in the upcoming short session, which we are in now.

[00:13:17] The new language would say only a citizen of the United States who is 18 years of age

[00:13:24] and possessing the qualifications set out in this article shall be entitled to vote at any

[00:13:29] election by the people of the state except as he or otherwise provided. So, point is it attaches now

[00:13:36] the language only a citizen of the U.S. The John Locke Foundation, the director of the

[00:13:47] Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, Dr. Andy Jackson,

[00:13:51] he would prefer some even tighter language which would say every citizen of the United States

[00:13:56] only a citizen of the United States. He does, he's like the language they proposed is good

[00:14:03] but it could be even tighter because the state constitution is silent on whether non-citizens

[00:14:09] can vote. The statute currently bans non-citizens voting in North Carolina but hypothetically

[00:14:14] a change in party control in the General Assembly could open the door to gifting

[00:14:19] resident aliens the right to vote. You get Democrats in charge and they could easily just

[00:14:24] twist this law. So, let's put it to a vote of the people and put it into the constitution

[00:14:32] only citizens. By the way, the absentee ballots are already out they've been going out for the

[00:14:39] second primary in certain North Carolina races. The 13th congressional district

[00:14:46] that race is still happening although Kelly Daughtry dropped out after Donald Trump endorsed

[00:14:54] Brad Knot. So, but you still got to go vote because if nobody votes in the race then you

[00:14:58] never know what might happen because every vote matters unless it's a non-citizen and that

[00:15:03] doesn't happen. Okay, but you've got the second primary going on so that's happening.

[00:15:10] Oh, and then there was this I saw this. You know who's now advocating for people to go

[00:15:17] vote early during early voting? I was as surprised as you're probably going to be when you hear this.

[00:15:25] Donald Trump. Yeah, I don't know what happened. Do I take this literally or seriously? I don't know.

[00:15:34] He put out a truth or a social or a truth social whatever he posted on truth social

[00:15:42] absentee voting early voting and election day voting are all good options.

[00:15:47] Republicans must make a plan, register and vote. Which explains why I saw everybody on

[00:15:55] social media on Twitter they were like I love early voting now that's all of a sudden this

[00:16:01] listless vessel I am now for early voting. Axios.com reporting after years of calling voting by mail

[00:16:10] quote corrupt and crooked Donald Trump and GOP committees are scrambling to convince their

[00:16:15] voters that it is safe and secure ahead of the November 5th elections. Democrats have

[00:16:19] built a large mail in voting advantage over the GOP in swing states that could decide the

[00:16:25] election as many Republican voters have bought into Trump's stated distrust of voting by mail.

[00:16:31] Trump who has long cited mail in voting and questioning the results of the 2020 election

[00:16:36] has abruptly abruptly shifted his public messaging. Donald Trump Jr. Remember he cut ads

[00:16:45] against it and now he's cut them for it. It might be too late to rebuild the trust

[00:16:52] in vote by mail that Trump tore down after the 2020 election but I welcome the change.

[00:17:00] I do because early voting when you show up in early vote yeah I'm fine with that

[00:17:06] and if you want to get rid of it that's fine but you first got to win and the way to win

[00:17:10] is to get as many of your votes banked as early as possible. I do like this though there was a

[00:17:16] turning point USA Charlie Kirk's group the chief operating officer there still against it

[00:17:23] he says if you vote too early you're basically telling Democrats how many votes they need to win.

[00:17:31] Well yeah and by them voting early they're telling us how many votes we need to win right

[00:17:37] isn't that okay would you rather not know I'd rather know I'd rather know what the numbers are

[00:17:45] and I'd rather not keep going back to the same people asking them over and over and over again

[00:17:49] do you need a ride to the polls hey did you go vote and all that because that's a waste of time

[00:17:53] and resources and you're just gonna you're just gonna hack people off stop spamming me with all

[00:17:58] of these messages big news for UK cup lovers and by big news I mean that's a great news but there is

[00:18:12] a okay there's a it's kind of a good news bad news situation I'll tell you in a second let me go

[00:18:17] over here and get Brian on before I move on hello Brian welcome to the program hey Pete hey what's

[00:18:23] up got a news got a newsflash on why uh what we need to vote early it's uh the pro-homoss

[00:18:35] uh be killed and uh and keep all them are going to block off the polls on on election day to cut

[00:18:41] off the uh the conservative vote that is quite a prediction are you are you embedded in a in a

[00:18:48] homos holy cell no but uh I'm but I've got pretty good contacts from a previous career oh really

[00:18:58] yeah was it in ballot harvesting I'm kidding I'm just kidding no I'm I'm kidding you don't have to

[00:19:03] tell me that even if you were but um uh all right so uh that you think well first off

[00:19:08] yes the marxist brigades the red shirts the uh the the youth movement right they've been

[00:19:16] they have been activated right uh we saw this in 2020 as well so they've been activated to try to

[00:19:22] create uh chaos and stabilize absolutely so they're already kind of gearing up I am kind of interested

[00:19:29] to see what happens with the uh 1968 uh Chicago uh democrat convention that's going to be fun to

[00:19:35] watch that that uh you know take two um but yeah I could see that there being some problems but

[00:19:41] um you're saying what on election day specifically yes

[00:19:48] do we know where uh the red state polling places ah

[00:19:56] have you but wait they know that like that that people who show up to these polling places in

[00:20:02] red states that they are like they're generally conservatives and they're not going to be putting

[00:20:07] up with that crap yeah they just uh they're just anti-american they want to set down everything

[00:20:14] but but they're gonna gonna hit the election day hard all right brian well we will see call me back

[00:20:20] after the election and we'll see if you were right all right all right man I appreciate no that's a

[00:20:24] good that's a it's a good prediction I mean as long as we're making them oh I should forgot

[00:20:28] to ask for the winning lottery numbers um that's my bad uh Dennis says Pete I just wanted to thank

[00:20:34] you for the effort you put towards peeling the onion on our local and state politics that really is

[00:20:41] the best analogy right because it stinks and it makes you cry um he says I don't know any other

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