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