Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:02.180] I'm Dave Champion. [00:02.180 --> 00:05.160] With what's been going on in the United States for the last nine months and how Americans [00:05.160 --> 00:13.940] have responded to it, I didn't think that my respect or confidence in my fellow citizens [00:13.940 --> 00:32.340] could get any lower than it was, and November 4th and November 5th proved me wrong. [00:32.340 --> 00:38.700] I have to admit, I honestly don't know what motivates people to spread baseless, evidenceless [00:38.700 --> 00:40.980] conspiracy theories. [00:40.980 --> 00:42.960] Do they really believe it? [00:42.960 --> 00:48.840] Do they think it makes them sound, I don't know, in the know or somehow intelligent, [00:48.840 --> 00:53.920] the irony, somehow intelligent to spew absolute bullshit? [00:53.920 --> 00:58.360] There's a lot of talk about that the votes aren't being properly counted, and I'm going [00:58.360 --> 01:00.320] to get into why all of that is. [01:00.320 --> 01:03.040] But I think the very first thing we should do when we talk about votes not being properly [01:03.040 --> 01:09.200] counted is to look at how the ballot counting process actually works. [01:09.200 --> 01:17.160] I'm going to guess probably 95 to 98 percent of the people who are talking about how ballots [01:17.160 --> 01:22.520] are counted and how unfair it is and the fix is in and they're corrupt have no clue how [01:22.520 --> 01:24.600] it actually works. [01:24.600 --> 01:32.000] Do you know why we have legislatures and we have three different branches of government? [01:32.000 --> 01:39.720] Because diffusion of authority or diffusion of power is considered the safest construct. [01:39.720 --> 01:43.880] If you have to have government at all, diffusion of power is considered the safest construct. [01:43.880 --> 01:52.000] So I bring that up to make the point that diffusion is exactly how votes are counted. [01:52.000 --> 01:57.480] I hear these crazy conspiracy theories and I imagine the people who are parroting them [01:57.480 --> 02:03.920] must be thinking there's some evil dude and he's all alone in a room and he's cooking [02:03.920 --> 02:06.880] all of the ballot results. [02:06.880 --> 02:09.960] You know it doesn't work anything like that, right? [02:09.960 --> 02:15.480] In the United States, ballots are counted almost exclusively at the county clerk's office. [02:15.480 --> 02:18.920] I want to start with the premise, and I'll return to this towards the end of the video, [02:18.920 --> 02:26.440] with the premise that states and county clerks have spent the last decade trying to get rid [02:26.480 --> 02:33.240] of paper ballots and move to voting machines where the information is digital and it's [02:33.240 --> 02:38.640] uploaded to the county clerk's office in a snap and so basically by the time most of [02:38.640 --> 02:41.920] us go to bed on election day, we know the results, right? [02:41.920 --> 02:45.720] That's what government has been working towards for a decade. [02:45.720 --> 02:50.740] But because of the virus this year, things completely flipped. [02:50.740 --> 02:56.460] Instead of heading down that road of 100%, close to 100% digital voting, we ended up [02:56.460 --> 03:02.140] with a gigantic, unexpected amount of paper ballots. [03:02.140 --> 03:05.660] I say unexpected in the terms of over the last decade. [03:05.660 --> 03:11.380] Nobody anticipated five years ago that here in 2020 county clerk's offices would be buried [03:11.380 --> 03:12.740] in paper ballots. [03:12.740 --> 03:15.740] We have county clerk's office, for instance in the county that I live in, I'm going to [03:15.740 --> 03:18.780] guess there's like 20 people working in the county clerk's office. [03:18.780 --> 03:26.940] So I suppose it's remotely possible that all 20 of them could conspire together, whether [03:26.940 --> 03:30.140] they're Biden supporters or Trump supporters, would almost certainly be Trump supporters. [03:30.140 --> 03:35.340] In this county, I don't know what the numbers are for this year, but in 2016, 81 or 82% [03:35.340 --> 03:38.180] of the residents of my county voted for Trump. [03:38.180 --> 03:42.160] So here, if there was going to be a conspiracy, odds are it would be a pro-Trump conspiracy. [03:42.160 --> 03:47.380] So I guess somebody could hypothesize that they could get all of the employees of the [03:47.380 --> 03:51.460] county clerk's office to sit down and agree that they were going to miscount votes in [03:51.460 --> 03:53.520] order to give the election to Donald Trump. [03:53.520 --> 03:57.980] But of course, this is a very sparsely populated, gigantic, I don't know, third, fifth, something [03:57.980 --> 04:02.620] largest county in the United States, but we've got like 40,000 people in the whole county. [04:02.620 --> 04:04.900] So our county clerk's office is pretty small. [04:04.900 --> 04:09.300] You get places like Los Angeles, which is in Los Angeles County, and you get Clark County [04:09.300 --> 04:11.340] just down the road from where I live. [04:11.340 --> 04:16.380] And there are literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people who work for the county [04:16.380 --> 04:20.340] clerk's office in those locations, and that's the way it is in most of the big urban centers [04:20.340 --> 04:21.580] across America. [04:21.580 --> 04:30.420] So the idea that anyone has the power to conscript all of those hundreds and hundreds of people [04:30.420 --> 04:36.180] into a plot on behalf of one or the other of the political parties and get all of the [04:36.180 --> 04:42.400] people involved in the ballot tabulation to lie so that this guy or that guy can unjustly [04:43.400 --> 04:47.760] seize the presidency is just fucking ignorant. [04:47.760 --> 04:48.760] How would you do that? [04:48.760 --> 04:52.720] Even in this county, in my county where I live, where I said there's 20 employees, all [04:52.720 --> 05:00.800] it takes is one to say, even if they agree politically with their co-workers, all it [05:00.800 --> 05:04.920] takes is one to say, wait a second, this is just wrong, and go to like a big television [05:04.920 --> 05:07.840] station in Las Vegas and the whole thing gets out of the bag, right? [05:07.840 --> 05:12.240] And that's a little tiny county here, so you can imagine the odds that somebody would go [05:12.240 --> 05:17.840] to the press with that sort of conspiracy concerning ballot counting in a large urban [05:17.840 --> 05:19.800] center is exponentially greater. [05:19.800 --> 05:22.640] There is no way to pull that off. [05:22.640 --> 05:26.600] And of course, if somebody like the county clerk was trying to do a top-down corruption [05:26.600 --> 05:32.040] process, yeah, the employees are going to, one or more of the employees are going to [05:32.040 --> 05:34.760] go to the press and say, look, here's the instructions we've been given, and I brought [05:34.760 --> 05:37.960] a witness with me, okay, and the whole thing will be blown out of the water. [05:37.960 --> 05:42.340] So we've got these literally, I don't know how many counties, or tens of thousands of [05:42.340 --> 05:45.900] counties across the United States, and each one has a county clerk's office. [05:45.900 --> 05:49.080] Within those county clerk's office, you have anywhere from a handful of people, hundreds [05:49.080 --> 05:57.880] and hundreds and hundreds, and somehow, somehow, they're all conscripted into a plot so that [05:57.880 --> 06:04.800] your political adversary can win the presidency. [06:04.800 --> 06:05.800] It's just an eight. [06:05.800 --> 06:10.520] Somebody might say, okay, so the counties are going to deliver the information to this, [06:10.520 --> 06:16.320] to the state's secretary of state, and that's where the fixes in the secretary of state [06:16.320 --> 06:21.800] is going to rig the numbers so that your political adversary gets in the White House. [06:21.800 --> 06:29.080] So no, because the secretary of state has to certify all the numbers from the counties, [06:29.080 --> 06:32.560] and that document is available to the county clerks. [06:32.560 --> 06:37.480] So no, the secretary of state can't cook the numbers anyway. [06:37.480 --> 06:41.160] I guess unless you're a conspiracy theorist who has your head up your ass. [06:41.160 --> 06:47.720] So my point is, the ballot counting, the ballot tabulation, like I talked about diffusion, [06:47.720 --> 06:50.680] is diffused throughout the United States. [06:50.680 --> 06:52.520] It's diffused within the states. [06:52.520 --> 06:56.720] It's then diffused down to the counties, and it's then even diffused down to the people [06:56.720 --> 06:59.680] who work in the county clerk's office. [06:59.680 --> 07:03.080] There is no grand conspiracy. [07:03.080 --> 07:07.480] Your political opponent is not going to end up in the White House because the votes were [07:07.480 --> 07:08.480] miscounted. [07:08.480 --> 07:15.240] Now with that said, could there potentially be here or there some little tiny thing going [07:15.240 --> 07:16.240] on? [07:16.240 --> 07:19.520] Of course, because I've talked about this in previous videos. [07:19.520 --> 07:21.840] Elections are run by humans, and humans are flawed. [07:21.840 --> 07:26.200] So yeah, it's possible that somebody, a little guy over there is trying to cheat or somebody [07:26.200 --> 07:28.840] over there is trying to cheat in some small way. [07:28.840 --> 07:32.000] But you know, so somebody in a nation, I'm just going to throw out an arbitrary number [07:32.000 --> 07:38.440] here, you know, 70,000 votes for that guy or that gal. [07:38.440 --> 07:44.600] And somebody managed to manipulate 119 votes, okay, yeah, so get over it. [07:44.600 --> 07:51.320] So now I want to address some of the nutty false conspiracy claims that I have seen as [07:51.320 --> 07:53.960] I've gone about social media. [07:53.960 --> 07:58.040] I'm just going to talk about a couple of them, three, four, and that's it, because yeah, [07:58.040 --> 08:00.640] I can go on for hours with the nonsense. [08:00.640 --> 08:11.200] So the first one I want to address is the story that in Arizona, election workers were [08:11.200 --> 08:23.120] handing out Sharpies to voters because when the voter filled in a little oval with a Sharpie, [08:23.120 --> 08:25.920] it would render the ballot invalid. [08:25.920 --> 08:32.160] The ballot counting machines that they use could not count a ballot if it was done with [08:32.160 --> 08:33.160] Sharpie. [08:33.160 --> 08:38.600] Okay, so first of all, that is social media nonsense. [08:38.600 --> 08:42.440] I want to start with the concept that say you're a poll worker. [08:42.440 --> 08:46.120] So you're standing behind your little table and somebody comes up and says, hi, here's [08:46.120 --> 08:49.160] my little voter ID, like here in Nevada. [08:49.160 --> 08:51.880] When you register, they send you a little voter ID card, right, just a little piece [08:51.880 --> 08:52.880] of paper. [08:53.640 --> 08:54.640] Here it is. [08:54.640 --> 08:58.840] Oh, okay, Mr. Jones, let me see here and pull this up, yes, there's your ballot, okay. [08:58.840 --> 09:05.480] So tell me, you're putting yourself in the role of the poll worker. [09:05.480 --> 09:14.720] How do you know for whom that person was going to vote for president? [09:14.720 --> 09:19.240] Because a claim is being made in this particular case by Trump supporters that their ballots [09:19.240 --> 09:26.560] are being invalidated by evil, conspiratorial, democratic poll workers handing them Sharpies [09:26.560 --> 09:28.680] so their ballots don't count. [09:28.680 --> 09:33.200] But how would the poll workers know that any given voter coming through and picking up [09:33.200 --> 09:37.360] a ballot was planning to vote for Trump? [09:37.360 --> 09:44.080] That and that alone should tell anybody with an IQ above 50 that it's a BS social media [09:44.080 --> 09:45.840] nonsense story. [09:45.840 --> 09:52.240] But the whole technology side of it, the Sharpies invalidated ballot, the machines [09:52.240 --> 09:54.520] can't process it. [09:54.520 --> 09:55.520] Is that true? [09:55.520 --> 09:59.480] Well, not according to the Arizona Secretary of State's office and here's the statement [09:59.480 --> 10:02.000] from the Arizona Secretary of State. [10:02.000 --> 10:05.760] This is absolutely a non-issue. [10:05.760 --> 10:14.320] Every single validly cast ballot, regardless of the pen you used, is going to be counted. [10:14.640 --> 10:17.160] Yeah, dumb as shit ever. [10:17.160 --> 10:22.160] Another one I've seen going around is this really grainy, murky image, supposed to be [10:22.160 --> 10:26.640] two screenshots side by side, but I kind of tried to blow it up a little bit to read the [10:26.640 --> 10:29.240] words and I was like, what the hell? [10:29.240 --> 10:31.880] Probably because the photoshopping was so terrible. [10:31.880 --> 10:37.480] The image purports to show that at a particular time of the day, Libertarian Party candidate [10:37.480 --> 10:42.680] for president Joe Jorgensen received something like 67,000 votes. [10:42.680 --> 10:48.480] And then like eight hours later, it was miraculously like 24,000 votes. [10:48.480 --> 10:53.560] So it's like, oh, how could she have less votes six or eight hours later? [10:53.560 --> 10:59.520] So first of all, who do you think would have the most interest in reaching out to the election [10:59.520 --> 11:03.560] officials or filing a lawsuit if that was really taking place? [11:03.560 --> 11:06.960] Yeah, the Joe Jorgensen campaign. [11:06.960 --> 11:09.400] They haven't said a word because it's not real. [11:09.400 --> 11:10.400] It's not true. [11:10.400 --> 11:14.960] I'm sure their people saw it on the internet, called the office, the county clerk's office [11:14.960 --> 11:18.080] or the state's secretary of state's office and said, what's up with this image? [11:18.080 --> 11:22.280] And they said, OK, let us show you what the actual numbers were as they accumulated throughout [11:22.280 --> 11:23.280] the day. [11:23.280 --> 11:27.520] And Jorgensen's people said, oh, all right, so yeah, internet nonsense. [11:27.520 --> 11:31.760] The next one is great because the numbers constantly jump around because it's not a [11:31.760 --> 11:33.200] true story. [11:33.200 --> 11:37.200] And it's supposedly, I forget the state, it's not important because it's not true anyway, [11:37.200 --> 11:46.640] But suddenly 137,000 or 156,000, fill in your own number, of ballots that were lost [11:46.640 --> 11:51.800] were suddenly found and 100% of them were for Joe Biden. [11:51.800 --> 11:53.840] So yeah, that never happened. [11:53.840 --> 11:58.200] It's spreading like wildfire all over social media and you know there's people on the [11:58.200 --> 12:00.120] hard right who are spreading that. [12:00.120 --> 12:03.440] The reality is it just never happened. [12:03.440 --> 12:05.360] There's no evidence. [12:05.360 --> 12:12.280] It started with one douchebag on a far right website making that claim and that was it. [12:12.280 --> 12:19.160] Somebody on Twitter repeated his claim and boom, off like wildfire. [12:19.160 --> 12:22.520] Problem is nothing like that ever happened. [12:22.520 --> 12:31.960] There's no evidence, that's the key part, zero evidence that that ever occurred. [12:32.480 --> 12:37.680] The evidence isn't important because it promotes what's in their head in this particular case [12:37.680 --> 12:43.180] that there's this deep state democratic plot to get Joe Biden into office and the people [12:43.180 --> 12:46.880] over at the, whatever, secretary of state's office or some county, wherever they allege [12:46.880 --> 12:53.120] it happened, they suddenly just miraculously produced 137,000 ballots that they didn't [12:53.120 --> 12:54.680] know existed before. [12:54.680 --> 12:56.720] Give it a fucking rest. [12:56.720 --> 13:06.600] The last two I'm going to touch on is the claim that vote counting has been stopped. [13:06.600 --> 13:09.240] Somebody used the phrase paused. [13:09.240 --> 13:17.320] This is again an evil politically motivated plot so that your political adversary, your [13:17.320 --> 13:21.400] enemy can assume the Oval Office. [13:21.400 --> 13:26.160] So no, what's really happening is, we've talked about the county clerk's office and [13:26.240 --> 13:30.080] how they're staffed and of course the staffing is proportional to the population of the area. [13:30.080 --> 13:33.160] So for instance here we have 40,000 people, we have somewhere in the range of about 20 [13:33.160 --> 13:34.600] people working in the office. [13:34.600 --> 13:38.760] You might have a county that's got 4 million people and it may have 2,000 employees, okay, [13:38.760 --> 13:40.640] but it's proportional. [13:40.640 --> 13:42.880] So the workload is proportional. [13:42.880 --> 13:46.160] Remember I talked about at the outset that for a decade government has been trying to [13:46.160 --> 13:48.000] move away from paper ballots, right? [13:48.000 --> 13:50.080] That's the purpose of voting machines. [13:50.080 --> 13:54.480] And they got deluged this year with paper ballots they never imagined they'd have to [13:54.480 --> 13:56.480] cope with in 2020. [13:56.480 --> 14:03.080] So what's happening is the county clerk's office is running these paper ballot machines [14:03.080 --> 14:04.840] which have to be monitored. [14:04.840 --> 14:07.480] There's a whole hierarchy of how they're monitored. [14:07.480 --> 14:14.560] The employee, and by the way, obviously as fast as those machines can run, and remember [14:14.560 --> 14:20.200] they don't have as many machines as they should have had had they been able to anticipate [14:20.200 --> 14:23.700] five years ago that this was going to happen in 2020. [14:23.700 --> 14:28.180] So they have too few machines and they're trying to get this job done. [14:28.180 --> 14:32.860] So literally what's been happening in a lot of these counties is the employees have been [14:32.860 --> 14:42.540] working 12, 14, 15, 16 hour days trying to get this huge monumental deluge of paper ballots [14:42.540 --> 14:44.380] counted. [14:44.380 --> 14:45.380] This is a good thing, right? [14:45.380 --> 14:46.380] We want them to do this. [14:46.380 --> 14:52.140] But at some point the actual county clerk says, stop, go home, grab some sleep. [14:52.140 --> 14:55.860] I'll see you at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. [14:55.860 --> 14:57.100] It's not the military. [14:57.100 --> 14:59.180] There's no reinforcements coming. [14:59.180 --> 15:02.820] However many people work for the county clerk is how many people the county clerk has. [15:02.820 --> 15:07.340] So when those people have been working their asses off for 12 or 13, 14, 15 hours and the [15:07.340 --> 15:14.180] clerk tells them to go home and sleep, that's being cast as some form of corrupt stop the [15:14.180 --> 15:18.980] vote counting because if the votes were counted then my guy would win. [15:18.980 --> 15:25.060] That's why we have to stop the vote counting. [15:25.060 --> 15:28.700] Stupidity is just mind boggling. [15:28.700 --> 15:33.300] That anybody just can't figure out the simple ordinary things in life and have to turn it [15:33.300 --> 15:39.300] into some political conspiracy is just, I don't even, like I said I didn't think my [15:39.300 --> 15:42.900] confidence and respect for my fellow Americans could get any lower. [15:42.900 --> 15:46.420] Closely related to what we just talked about is another time issue. [15:46.860 --> 15:53.820] Okay, so we've been working towards getting as close to 100% votes on voting machines [15:53.820 --> 15:54.820] as possible. [15:54.820 --> 15:57.020] We've been working on that for the last decade. [15:57.020 --> 16:05.340] So the goal is that the results can be rendered as quickly as possible. [16:05.340 --> 16:06.340] That's not this year. [16:06.340 --> 16:07.340] Right. [16:07.340 --> 16:08.340] We've talked about that. [16:08.340 --> 16:11.300] So what's happening now, we talked about you can only work people so hard that you've got [16:11.300 --> 16:14.820] to let them go home and get a little bit of sleep, maybe take care of their kids, whatever [16:15.220 --> 16:18.340] they have to do and then come back, do it again, you might have to send them home to [16:18.340 --> 16:21.260] sleep the next night and then they have to come back and work their asses off again the [16:21.260 --> 16:23.220] next day. [16:23.220 --> 16:27.460] This is a monumental task that people outside the county clerk's office don't understand [16:27.460 --> 16:28.940] or appreciate or really care about. [16:28.940 --> 16:30.580] They just want what they want. [16:30.580 --> 16:38.780] So what's happening is the people usually have a particular political persuasion. [16:38.780 --> 16:45.060] They want the results right now and if they can't have the results right now, it's a [16:45.060 --> 16:49.940] sign that the whole process is being corrupted and their guy is being undercut by political [16:49.940 --> 16:50.940] corruption. [16:50.940 --> 16:54.180] No, it's not. [16:54.180 --> 16:59.260] Depending on the state, you may be surprised to know that most state laws allow someplace [16:59.260 --> 17:05.260] between like somewhere in the November 20th range all the way out into the beginning of [17:05.420 --> 17:12.920] December, state law in virtually every state allows that period of time for the counties [17:12.920 --> 17:17.740] to resolve any discrepancies they have, any irregularities, come up with the very best [17:17.740 --> 17:21.620] numbers they can, get it to the secretary of state whose people then review it and if [17:21.620 --> 17:24.780] they find any problems, they reach back out to the county clerk's office, blah, blah, [17:24.780 --> 17:25.780] blah. [17:25.780 --> 17:29.980] You go through this whole process and the final stage is the secretary of state for [17:29.980 --> 17:37.440] any particular state of the union that has to certify the numbers for his or her state. [17:37.440 --> 17:42.580] So these people that are screaming that it's a sign of political corruption, it's a sign [17:42.580 --> 17:49.540] that fixes in because they don't have the numbers they want right now is just nutty. [17:49.540 --> 17:52.460] Now I want to talk about federal law for a moment. [17:52.460 --> 17:57.500] These people with these wild conspiracy theories, I have a news flash for you. [17:57.500 --> 18:03.700] You may not be aware the popular vote doesn't select the president in the United States. [18:03.700 --> 18:10.940] The way electors vote in the electoral college determines who's going to be president. [18:10.940 --> 18:19.060] So it may interest you to know that as far as the federal government is concerned, the [18:19.060 --> 18:27.100] states have up until December 8th to straighten out whatever they need to have straightened [18:27.100 --> 18:32.620] out and get their final numbers to the federal government. [18:32.620 --> 18:38.420] They don't have to do that until December 8th. [18:38.420 --> 18:48.600] Then the next date on the federal scale is the date the electors all meet and they vote [18:48.600 --> 18:53.260] on who is going to become the president of the United States. [18:53.260 --> 18:58.540] Your vote did not have any direct impact on that, depending on how your state works. [18:58.540 --> 19:07.180] Your vote is being translated into how electors from your state will vote when they go to [19:07.180 --> 19:09.860] the electoral college meeting. [19:09.860 --> 19:14.460] So your individual vote, the popular vote, does not determine who is president. [19:14.460 --> 19:18.300] I think every American should know this from grade school, but apparently these conspiracy [19:18.300 --> 19:19.940] theorists do not. [19:19.940 --> 19:29.300] So being that, the electors will not cast their votes at the electoral college meeting [19:29.300 --> 19:34.760] until December 14th. [19:34.760 --> 19:37.300] Why are these conspiracy nuts all bent out of shape? [19:37.300 --> 19:42.260] Because as I'm sitting here recording this today, it's two or three days after the election. [19:42.260 --> 19:46.180] Why are they all bent out of shape that they don't have their numbers right now? [19:46.200 --> 19:55.780] I have to say that what I've seen in the couple of days since November 3rd has been really, [19:55.780 --> 19:59.380] to me, really, really disturbing. [19:59.380 --> 20:07.860] The cockamamie theories, the claims, the conspiracy nonsense, the hatred, the angst, the allegations, [20:07.860 --> 20:09.500] the finger pointing. [20:09.500 --> 20:13.380] Jesus Christ, knock it the fuck off.