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now as this fight over votes plays out
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local four's learned that republican
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state senate majority leader mike
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shirkey and house speaker lee chetfield
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are expected to visit the white house
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friday the michigan democratic party is
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calling
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the trip quote unquote shameful karen a
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lot to unpack here
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and we'll bring you the very latest
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coming up on the news at five until then
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we'll send it back to you
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all right thank you ken we've had close
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presidential elections before many of us
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can vividly remember the year 2000 with
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those hanging chads in florida
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but this here feels different and some
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experts see reasons
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for concern as hyper partisan fights
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seem to buck the norms of democracy
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we've come to expect
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paula tupman this afternoon went looking
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for perspective on what we're seeing
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some experts believe that the so-called
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longest enduring experiment of democracy
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that is the united states is in peril
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here's a fact about the human condition
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governments fall system of government
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lasts forever
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professor richard primus is a
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constitutional law expert at the
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university of michigan
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i mean people throw sharp elbows in
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elections people sometimes say things
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that aren't true
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people there are lots of underhanded
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techniques that are used but when we get
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to counting the votes
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and once the votes are counted right we
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have a pretty strong
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practice of everybody saying okay like
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the math is the math
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right if it's super close we have a
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recount right but the math is the math
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and now we
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move forward the simple act of two
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members of the wayne county board of
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canvassers
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picking and choosing which results they
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want to certify
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is deeply concerning to professor peter
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trumbor
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chair of the political science
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department at oakland university
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the idea that they would certify
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all the votes in wayne county except
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those from the city of detroit
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when the problems for example in livonia
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with uh sort of the mismatch between the
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the poll books
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and and the final numbers were
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equivalent
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um that they would accept the votes from
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livonia which is
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90 some percent white while throwing out
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the votes
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from the city of detroit which is the
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largest majority black city in the
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country
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i think tells you all you need to know
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there's reporting that president trump
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got involved in the wayne county dispute
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himself
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reaching out directly to republican
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canvassers monica palmer and william
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hartman
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to try to nullify
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the votes of hundreds of thousands
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of who are supposed to be his own
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constituents is simply
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is simply shocking but the damage is
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already being done because if you can
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successfully get enough people
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to choose to believe they have been
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cheated
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or slighted and they are unwilling to
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recognize the winner
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whether they voted for them or not
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democracy
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is injured this is the only time
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in those 200 plus years of history that
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we've had a president who has sought to
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burn the place down
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as he's headed out the door i think that
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that what this is showing us
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is that anybody's democratic rights are
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at risk when you have unscrupulous
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people in power
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that really seems to be it right that
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everybody's vote
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is is at risk of being taken from them
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and that we really need uh i think we
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really need some
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some serious vigilance to make sure that
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it doesn't happen
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and so what our experts are basically
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saying is for anybody who wants to
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continue to have a choice
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in leadership by way of voting they need
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to get in touch
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with their lawmakers and demand that
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they uphold
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the sanctity of this vote so that they
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can vote another day
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in other words in order for democracy to
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live another day
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for you to even vote this is the time to
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make sure
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that the that this election is indeed
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certified
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and upheld because there's just no real
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evidence of fraud that is being leveled
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against
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the city of detroit and indeed michigan
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all right thank you paula
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