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46% Trust Midterm Vote Count: Shady Counter Finds a Missing 1

From the BBN segment “46 percent believe midterm vote will be counted accurately”, cut down to under a minute.

On air: Hank Ledger · Published Tuesday, October 13 at 6:32 AM ET

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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: The Hill.

Hank LedgerA new NewsNation poll says forty-six percent of likely voters believe the midterm votes will be counted accurately, and that leaves a lot of people unsure.
Hank LedgerJoining us is Walter Gimble, inmate forty thousand seven hundred eighteen, from a minimum-security prison in Connecticut.
Walter GimbleThanks, Hank. I counted twice, and forty-six percent is generous.
Walter GimbleCounting is an art, and I was very good at it, right up until the incident.
Hank LedgerSo what is the incident, exactly?
Walter GimbleAn inventory error, and I will not say more, except that it involved a church raffle, a very large drum, and my clicker, Brenda, who has never once lied to me.
Hank LedgerBut the poll asks if voters trust the count. Do you?
Walter GimbleI counted twice, and the trouble isn't the counting, it's who's standing near the pile. I've stood near a few piles.
Walter GimbleNobody ever checked my pockets, and I'm just saying a pocket is a big place.
Hank LedgerYou were convicted.
Walter GimbleOf a clerical matter, Hank. Anyway, I counted twice and the real number of people who trust this is forty-seven.
Hank LedgerThe poll says forty-six, Walter.
Walter GimbleThen somebody lost one, and I'd like to know who was near the pile.

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