Why We Vote Ep. 191: Critical Infrastructure, Biden Administration & National Emergency

Ashe in America and CannCon open with Media Matters' list of "key election denial activists," which leaves them off, and shout out those who made it, like Mark Cook, Kevin Moncla and Clay Parikh. Then it's Runbeck: the vendor says 3,126 Maricopa County vote-by-mail packets reached the Postal Service six days early by mistake, and the hosts weigh that alongside a ballot error in Colorado and a vendor data problem in Champaign County, Illinois. Georgia is the main event. The State Election Board's resolution asks the DOJ and DHS to help push Dominion software updates with hard drives preserved first, and the hosts push back on Marilyn Marks and the Coalition for Good Governance, arguing the blame for not patching lies with the Secretary of State. Cleta Mitchell argues that Trump's 2019 Executive Order 13873 already declared the national emergency, putting the job on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; the hosts connect that to Jon's Devolution Part 7 and question a Reuters special report on Kurt Olsen and Ben Cotton. They close on unrequested absentee ballot applications in Georgia, which they say should be called out whichever side sends them, then send viewers to General Michael Flynn on DEFCON ZERQ.