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Oct. 29, 2024

Beyond the Ballot: How the Electoral College Shapes Our Democracy with Dr. William Choctaw and Attorney Bernie Brown

Beyond the Ballot: How the Electoral College Shapes Our Democracy with Dr. William Choctaw and Attorney Bernie Brown

This episode dives into the inner workings of the U.S. Electoral College, featuring Attorney Bernie Brown and Dr. William T. Choctaw. From its origins to its controversial role today, we unravel how each vote impacts our democracy and why the Electoral College might not be changing anytime soon. Essential for anyone curious about the power behind the presidency.

Transcript
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Coming up on this episode
of the Healthy, Wealthy, and

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Wise podcast, the electoral
college decides who becomes

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president of the United States.

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When you vote for a candidate for
president of the United States, you are

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actually voting for a slate of electors.

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That represent the candidate that you
voted for now each state Has a designated

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number of electors Usually based on

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welcome to the healthy wealthy and
wise podcast a podcast that provides

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actionable information And tools you
can use to live a more healthy wealthy

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and wise life This is the special
brothers in law edition featuring.

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Dr William t.

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Choctaw md and attorney bernie
round a former law Well,

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ladies and gentlemen, we are absolutely
delighted to have our favorite attorney

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with us today, attorney Bernie Brown.

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And as we have been doing for the
last few months, we decided that

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this is the way we would educate
our listeners about the election.

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We, we.

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I decided to have a legal professor
to sort of come in and sort of sort

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of give us insights and direction and
clarity, if you will, about what's going

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on and, and what we need to know and.

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And to answer our important
questions, one of the things that

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we decided that we would talk about
today is the Electoral College.

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I think most of our listeners are
familiar with Attorney Brown, but just

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to, for those who may not be, in addition
to being a distinguished attorney in

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the past and prior to his retirement,
he was assistant district attorney.

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Is that correct?

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Assistant City Attorney,
yes sir, for the City of Los

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Angeles, for the City of Los Angeles.

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And one of the things that I like
about Attorney Brown's claim to fame

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is that he went to the same law school
as Vice President Kamala Harris, that

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distinguishes Hastings Law School,

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Hastings College of the Law, now
known as University of California Law.

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San Francisco.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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Cause I, I wanted to make sure
that I got the right name in there.

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So that that's another reason why we are
sort of interested in sort of getting

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a peek inside of attorney Brown's brain
about these different important issues.

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And that adds to the relevance, if
you will, or a special treat for our

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listeners as we get legal advice.

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So we just about said, Brother Brown,
why don't you tell us what exactly

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is the Electoral College and why
is there so much interest in it?

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Thank you for having me.

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That's really a great question
and it's so topical with the

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presidential election coming up.

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Everybody's talking about the electoral
college and you know, the amazing

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thing is some people are criticizing
it saying it's It's outdated, and

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antiquated, and undemocratic, and
unfair, and forces majority rule,

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and it just goes on, and on, and on.

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And you know the amazing thing is,
most people, when they take polls,

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do not favor the electoral college.

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They want to get

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rid of it.

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Is that right?

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Okay.

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It

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has survived on, and on, and on,
and I'm here to tell you that I

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don't think it's going anywhere.

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Anytime soon,

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you're probably right.

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Well, the reason, in my opinion,
the reason why is not going anywhere

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soon is that if you get elected.

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Pursuant to the electoral college,

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right?

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Then you have no incentive to change
it And if you lose under the electoral

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college, you have no power to change

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so either way It's going to be around I
believe for a while It the interesting

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thing before I tell you what it is.

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Okay, interesting thing is what
would it require to change it?

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Yes, that's a good point.

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Okay.

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A constitutional amendment.

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It would require a two thirds vote of
Congress and a three fourths vote of

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all the states of the United States
and it's just not going to happen.

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That takes a lot.

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That takes a lot.

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Didn't something, wasn't that used
with, with women, had to do with

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the vote or something where all
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of states had to approve it.

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Maybe I'm thinking about something else.

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And the electoral college is found
in the constitution, the 12th

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amendment, found in article two,
section one of the constitution.

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And the constitution requires that if
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gotta have a vote of Congress and a
vote of the states to get an amendment.

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That's difficult.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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So, I mean, there are some
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about trying to get around it.

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Trying to circumvent it, but that's
probably a long story maybe for

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another day and another time right
now It's not happening and the

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interesting thing you asked the
question What is the electoral college?

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Yes,

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and You know, reporters have gone
out in public and asked people that

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very question and a mass majority of
people cannot explain it when they ask

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them, what is the electoral college?

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They just kind of look like, Oh, well,
and so it's really quite interesting.

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The electoral college decides.

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Who becomes president of the United
States when you vote for a candidate

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for president of the United States,
you are actually voting for a

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slate of electors that represent
the candidate that you voted for.

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Now each state has a designated
number of electors usually based

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on the population in that state.

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Okay.

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Oh, are you with me now?

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Like I said, it's based
on the 12th amendment.

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And what it is, and we're going to
look at it, an analysis of California

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in just a moment as an example.

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Each state gets two U.

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S.

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Senators, and each state gets
a designated number of members.

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In the house of reveries, I'm sorry,
in the house of representatives

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based on the number of U.

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S.

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congressional districts that have
been allocated to that state.

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Okay.

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Now that let me break that down.

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Okay.

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Two U.

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S.

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representatives assigned to each
state and each state based on its

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population gets a designated number
of congressional representatives.

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Right.

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Let me give you an example.

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The state of California.

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Yes.

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Assign two senators and 53 representatives
in the house of representatives.

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kind of find the largest state, right?

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Largest state in the

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state.

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You combine that 53 with the two
senators and you get 55 electors

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representing the The state of California.

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So the same formula is
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Every state must that.

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Now here's the interesting
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Okay.

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Every state must get at least three votes.

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No matter how small interesting so
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with very low populations get a
Disproportionate number of votes now.

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Why is that?

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Okay.

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Well, it's written up in the
Constitution It says that each state

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must have a certain minimum number
of of electoral college votes.

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Okay.

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Very small states wind up
disproportionately represented.

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Now the interesting thing.

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Here's the interesting point.

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Okay,

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it's 48 of the states except for Maine
and Nebraska are winner take all states

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winner take all Now, what does that mean?

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Well, let's just use California once
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see, when you go to vote, you actually,
like I mentioned earlier, you're

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going to vote for a slate of electors.

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Right.

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Now, the Republicans have a slate
and the Democrats have a slate.

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If the Democratic candidate gets the
majority of the votes, then their

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slate gets represented, gets counted.

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The losing slate does not count.

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Represent the state.

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Okay.

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And

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they do not get counted.

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I'll explain a little further
more, a little better later.

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But basically it's almost like a winner.

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It is what they call it.

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Winner take all.

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Okay.

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So, so California, let's say 48
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Okay.

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And 52% Vote for Trump.

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Okay.

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Then Trump would win California
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Got it.

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That's why it's important to win in
every state, uh, to win your state.

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Right.

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Because the losing candidate,
their candidates, their

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electors do not get counted.

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But you see what eventually happens
is on January 5th, the electors go

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to Congress and cast their vote.

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Um, on behalf of the candidates that
have won in their state, at least

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they're supposed to cast their vote.

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Well, I was going to, are they
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there loopholes there too?

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There's a new Supreme Court case that
says, if your state has a law that

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requires you to vote for the winning
candidate, then you must cast that vote

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on behalf of the winning candidate.

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Okay.

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So most states have that.

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Law, but, and, and generally it hasn't
been an issue what's become, as you know,

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at the last election, as we all know, at
the last election, what became an issue

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is the electors from each state went
to Congress and they cast their vote.

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And then there was a The
existing president is, Oh,

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no, there, this isn't right.

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There, there, there's fraud.

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The election has been stolen.

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Urge Congress not to certify
the votes from the various

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states and then tried to urge.

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The vice president not
to certify the vote.

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Now, that didn't happen.

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Fortunately, the people in power,
shall we say, follow the constitution,

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follow the law and refused to,
well, how would you say it?

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Dr.

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Choctaw.

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Uh, to upset the, uh, subvert
the system of democracy.

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Let me ask you a question on that.

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Now, members of Congress are also
running for re election, correct?

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Particularly in the House.

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Yes, but they are, they
are by direct vote.

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Okay, okay.

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So, there is a vote of the population.

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Whoever wins the majority of the
vote, Wednesday, their election.

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Who decides the

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presidential election?

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Is that the new Congress
or the old Congress?

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Well, it's the existing
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Doesn't decide technically Congress
is only supposed to certify

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the votes that are reported to
them from the various states.

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They're supposed to exert
assert independent authority.

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Okay.

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Or to try to, or to circumvent
or to overcome the process.

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So when states come forward and
you'll be hearing that, you actually

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hear it on election night on a
November, on November 5th, when all

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the states are casting their votes.

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So we'll know a lot sooner than
January the 5th, but on, on November.

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The fifth, you will hear the state there.

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The state of California cast, its 55
votes for president, for Kamala Harris,

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Kamala Harris as the next president of
the, you know, United States of America.

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And they'll be going through each state
over, uh, each day, one by one by one.

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Okay?

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And, and, and so that should decide it.

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And here's an interesting little fact.

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Okay.

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Interesting.

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Did you know that the 11 biggest
most populated states could

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actually control the election?

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Can it win from just the 11?

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Largest states.

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I mean, these are the battleground
states we hear about, or these

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are not the battleground states.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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States with the most members
of the electoral college.

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Say this is California has 55 electoral
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Florida has 30, New York has 28, Texas
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has 16, Illinois has 17, I'm sorry,
Pennsylvania has 19, Georgia has 16,

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Michigan has 15, and New Jersey has 14.

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When you put those all together,
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That's a majority of all of the
electorates for all of the states.

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That would win the election.

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about battleground states, they
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They don't talk about that many.

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Yes.

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The thing about the battleground states
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And so nobody, the question becomes
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and those become more critical.

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You see, California is
a foregone conclusion.

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Right.

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It's gone a Democrat for
years and like Texas has gone

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Republican, right?

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Texas is going Republican.

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So there's certain states that are
not considered battleground states.

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They know pretty much they have
a history of going a certain way.

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All of the polls show they're
going to go a certain way.

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So there's not a question of
which way they're going to vote.

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But those swing states are the ones that
are very close where they're saying,

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well, we don't really know who's going
to win the swing states this year, 2024,

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Arizona, 11 electoral votes, Georgia, 16,
Michigan, 15, Nevada, six, North Carolina,

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six, Pennsylvania, 19, Wisconsin, 10.

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That's 93.

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93 electoral votes in, in, in,
I'm sorry, seven swing states.

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Got it.

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It can

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change the election.

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So, you know, it gets, this
stuff is, is really exciting.

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You know, I listen to some people
and they say, Well, I can't,

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I can't listen to it anymore.

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then I hear people on both sides
saying, well, if the other Canada

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wins, I'm leaving the country.

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I hear people on the other
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