EXPOSED: Democrats' NEW Dropbox Scheme to Undermine Arizona Elections
On the cusp of a complete economic recession, Charlie starts off the day by exposing what industry benefits most during financial turmoil: The Lobbying Industry. In the midst of huge layoffs from Peloton, Carvana, and Netflix, the lobbying industry has exploded by allowing sneaky corporations to fly under the radar as they manipulate one of the most feckless and aimless administrations in American history. Next, Charlie welcomes Tyler Bowyer on the program, COO of Turning Point Action and Turning Point PAC. They discuss the election integrity issues plaguing Arizonans, where Maricopa county is headed, and what to do next. Tyler warns listeners about what could happen to Arizona is election fraud isn’t uncovered.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Election Integrity News From Arizona00:01:52
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Lobbyists And Government Corruption00:10:23
What business is booming?
Well, oil's doing okay.
Tech is down.
New home sales are down.
Restaurants are down.
Consumer spending is down.
We are on the cusp of a recession.
But there is one industry that if you are fortunate enough to be in, that you are seeing record hauls.
Business is better than ever before.
You can't believe the amount of new interest and clients that you're able to recruit.
The amount of people you have to hire just to be able to sustain the volume of work.
OpenSecrets.org reports unprecedented $1 billion first quarter lobbying haul puts 2022 on track for a record year.
This year is on track for record lobbying spending after lobbyists collectively clocked the first biggest, the biggest first quarter haul in history with more than $1 billion disclosed during the first quarter of 2022 alone.
The federal budget was the most lobbied issue from January through March with 3,394 clients paying for lobbying on the issue.
Health issues are also heavily lobbied with 2,068 clients.
You see, the bigger the government, the more the opportunity for corporations not to worry about how to make better products or to persuade you to buy their products or to be able to develop better services, but instead, they want to be able to sneak their way in to the federal treasury, your taxpayer money, and get their part.
This is all while Business Insider, which is a rag of a website, says a wave of layoffs is sweeping the United States.
Here are the firms that have announced cuts so far from Compass to Coinbase.
Layoffs are coming.
You know, for months, employees thought they could just show up late to work, expect a 15 to 20% raise, get their stimulus check.
No more.
Layoffs are here.
Peloton has already laid off thousands of employees.
Online car dealer Carvana has slashed 12% of its workforce.
Companies like Netflix are making cuts.
Business growth is slowing while labor costs are increasing.
This is the crash crashflation that we've been talking about for some time.
But what we're seeing now is the economy is in such fragile footing unless you work for a lobbying firm.
Lobbying related to health continues to dominate spending as recovery from the coronavirus pandemic continues.
So while they were always talking about public health and stopping the spread, while they were pushing forward to pushing aggressively to try to have more spending against COVID, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson Johnson, amongst many others, bio and tech, saw a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to skim off the federal treasury off your money to make them rich.
So what do they do?
They hire lobbyists.
The larger the government, the more opportunity for corruption.
This is one of the things I laugh at Bernie Sanders and all of his supporters.
They say, well, we want to stop corruption in government.
Oh, how?
By making government bigger?
We want corporations to be weaker.
Oh, by how?
By making the government bigger that would actually make the corporations stronger.
You ask them, do you trust the government?
And they say, oh, no, we hate the government.
We don't trust the government.
Then why would you want to make that government bigger and more powerful?
Why would you make the government stronger?
Pharmaceutical research and manufacturers of America ranked third overall in the first quarter of 2022, with nearly $8.3 million in spending during that period.
The pharmaceutical industry trade group was the third largest spending of 2021 at over $30 million for that year.
So you have a billion dollars being spent on corporate America, an unprecedented sum, according to Open Secrets.
Think about what they're not spending money on.
They're not spending money on new products.
They're not spending money on research and development.
They still are, but that money isn't being allocated as much for those things.
Instead, they see the greatest bang for their buck hiring a lobbyist for $150,000 a month.
By hiring a lobbyist for $150,000 a month, they're able to navigate the halls of Congress.
So here's how it works.
Let's say you are Pfizer.
And number one, Pfizer doesn't want to be aggressively investigated by the federal government.
They want to continue to be able to approve vaccines for children.
They want to continue to be doing all sorts of sneaky and deceitful and treacherous things.
But Pfizer also wants to continue to receive billions of dollars from the federal government in mandatory vaccine expenditures, in all sorts of different things.
So what Pfizer will do is they will go hire a lobbying firm on what is metaphorically called K Street in Washington, D.C.
It's literally called K-Street.
And so on K-Street, it's kind of known as the lobbying capital of Washington, D.C.
They will hire, let's just say, Sal and Moe's lobbying shop.
So they will pay Sal and Moe an extraordinary amount of money.
Now, this is one of the ways that corporations are able to give money directly to politicians without giving money directly to politicians.
So what they will do is they will give these lobbyists, let's say, $150,000 to $200,000 a month.
And these lobbyists will, of course, take some of it for themselves.
They'll pay some overhead.
They'll pay for some office space.
But they'll use a lot of it to then go give direct contributions to Senator Chuck Schumer or to Senator John Cornyn.
So what they'll do is Sal and Moe's lobbying shop will take that amount of money from Pfizer.
They'll take that amount of money from AstraZeneca.
They'll take that money from Raytheon.
They'll take that money from Northrop Grumman.
And they'll host a fundraiser at the Capitol Hill Club saying, join us in support of the candidacy for Chuck Schumer for Senate Majority Leader or join us for this fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi.
And by the Republicans and Democrats are equal offenders of this.
So they'll do this fundraiser.
Now, by law, corporations cannot give money directly to these politicians.
There's ways they get around it.
We'll talk about that in a second.
This is one of them.
This is the easiest way they get around it.
So they hire the lobbyist, but the lobbyist is then able to give money directly to these candidates.
But they don't just write the check.
They have to do a whole event.
And then they have a briefing with the politician before the event.
So then before the event at the Capitol Hill Club, they'll rent a small room next door.
And since they're a registered lobbyist, they're allowed to do this legally.
I'm not accusing anything of illegal.
Is it unethical and sloppy?
And is it just gross?
Yes, but it's not illegal.
These lobbyists know what they're doing.
So they sit down with the politician.
They'll say, yes, we have all these people waiting for you in the next room, all of whom, by the way, are lobbyists that work for them, who all give the $1,000 or $2,000.
And there's kind of a wink and a nod that you're supposed to give to these candidates.
Now, you're not allowed to reimburse campaign contributions.
That is illegal.
But there's an expectation that if you work at the highest levels of these lobbying firms, that you better put aside money every single year to give money to politicians.
It's kind of baked into the deal.
Now, that's borderline legal and illegal.
And that's something that lobbyists are always kind of on the edge with.
But they'll sit down with the politicians.
They'll say, okay, Senator Schumer, you know, I think it's really important that we send $40 billion to Ukraine.
And they'll be saying this to the politician, and Schumer will be listening to all of this or whomever, Pelosi or Cornyn or whatever, and they'll be listening to this.
And the politician knows why the lobbyist is saying that.
The lobbyist is being paid to say this.
The politician knows that when they walk into the next room in the fundraiser, they're going to receive money under kind of the wink and nod promise that they're going to advance the interests of the corporation, whatever that corporation might be.
Now, this system has been getting more and more broken, but these corporations have just become so cavalier and brazen.
And we live now in a situation where the wealthiest counties in America are surrounding Washington, D.C. Instead of trying to extract oil or trying to develop new products or build cars, the wealthiest counties are where you don't make anything of value.
You extract from everywhere else and you redistribute it and launder for your own part.
As you struggle to pay your bills, lobbyists are richer than ever.
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Ballot Referendums And Drop Boxes00:16:52
Now, what are the richest counties in America?
And what used to be the wealthiest counties in America?
Well, the kingdom of Washington, D.C., by extracting your money, has created an unprecedented concentration of wealth.
The wealthiest counties in America are all around Washington, D.C.
The wealthiest county in America is Loudoun County, Virginia.
What do you use on a daily basis that is made in Loudoun County, Virginia?
Anything?
What are they known for?
Why would such a high concentration of wealth occur in Loudoun County, Virginia?
It's because their proximity to Washington, D.C., that's why.
The three wealthiest counties in America, Loudoun County, Virginia, median household income, $115,000 a year.
City Falls, City of Falls, Virginia, $114,000 a year.
Fairfax County, Virginia, $105,000 a year.
Fifth wealthiest county, Howard County, Maryland, $103,000 a year.
Eighth County, City of Fairfax, Virginia, $97,000 a year.
11th County, Arlington County, Virginia, $94,000 a year.
13th, Montgomery County, Maryland.
14th, Stafford County, Virginia.
15th, Prince William County, Virginia.
16th, Calvert County, Maryland.
All the surrounding counties of Washington, D.C., they're having a heyday.
While the health industry dominates overall, OpenSecrets.org writes, the top spender of this year's first quarter was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about $19 million in lobbying spending.
A longtime top lobbying spender with more than $1.7 billion spent since 1998, the chamber spent over $66 million on lobbying in 2021 alone.
The business lobbying group's heavy spending made it the top lobbying spender, despite fallout among Republicans after the chamber's endorsement of 30 Democrats seeking House seats in 2020.
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization spent $3.2 million on lobbying in the first quarter of this year.
$1.2 billion spent on lobbying your government.
Because when you have these potential multi-trillion dollar bills that are passed, there's so many carve-outs for the lobbyists to be able to send on D.C., be able to get a senator or two, host a fundraiser for them, donate to their PAC.
Now, another way the corporations are able to circumvent this is they're able to donate to social welfare organizations.
So, how many of you have seen these advertisements in your state where it's an attack ad, but it's kind of worded a little bit weirdly, where you kind of look at it and it starts really negative for part of it.
For example, it will say something along the lines of Senator Mark Kelly is fighting, or it could be a positive one.
Senator Mark Kelly is fighting for lower drug prices.
Call this number to thank Senator Mark Kelly for his amazing job fighting for lower drug prices.
I'm sure all of you have seen these ads and you wonder if they're just going to do an attack ad, why they have to put a phone number there to call.
Well, it's because the corporations are able to give to those organizations and remain anonymous and give unlimited if it's technically lobbying and social welfare versus a total attack ad.
So they're able to run those ads that have the effect of a positive kind of takeaway or the effect of a negative one.
So they'll say, call Raphael Warnock right now and say he's doing a wonderful job fighting for racial justice in Washington, D.C. Here's the number.
Where it's a little different than we need to defeat this candidate or defeat that candidate.
Corporations pump in hundreds of millions of dollars into these 501c4 organizations, these social welfare groups.
They can remain anonymous and that money can come directly from corporations.
And it's important for you to know that as you watch these ads, especially the one around like drug prices with Mark Kelly, that it's the very same companies that are spending billions in Washington, D.C., that are the ones that are flooding your airwaves.
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So, look, we have something really important to share with you of what's happening in Arizona, and this has national implications.
I'm going to read the tweet from the Maricopa County Republican Party.
Maricopa County Recorder's Office told me that there would be one or two drop boxes, the Maricopa County Republican Party said, in the primary election.
And yet, newly published lists, there are 16.
Sure, 15 are in government buildings and not open 24 hours a day.
Voter can drop off ballots and vote centers.
We don't need these.
Why are there still drop boxes after what we have learned?
With us to help unpack this is the Arizona expert himself who runs Turning Point Pack and Turning Point Action in the family of Turning Point efforts.
Tyler, welcome back to the program.
Charlie, it's crazy what we're up against still, even after 2000 mules of what we're seeing with so-called Republicans just not understanding what we're up against.
And it's just a wild situation that we're in right now because this guy, his name is Steven Richer.
He is the recorder for Maricopa County, which is the chief elections official for Maricopa County, which is the fourth largest county in America, is still implementing drop boxes.
And the excuse that the left and establishment Republicans are going to make was like, well, we've always done this.
And that's the point.
Now we know with what happened, what's been unveiled in 2000 mules, that they're going after people.
They're literally going after people in Arizona right now.
And they're still trying to implement and actually aggressively add more drop boxes in certain counties.
And it's just total insanity.
But this is just Maricopa, right?
This doesn't count Pima or Coconino.
Is that right?
I might be mispronouncing it, but yeah.
Yeah, no, that's perfect pronunciation of Coconut.
Yeah, this is just Maricoba County that we're focused on.
So, this is the slugfest that we have right now, which has been traditionally a big Republican county, the biggest Republican county in the country.
You know, Democrats are trying to totally take it over.
Yeah, but we have even uglier counties in Arizona.
Coconino, Pima, that's where U of A, NAU are at.
Flexible.
Yeah.
are much bluer.
And who knows what's happening there, right?
That's, I mean, it's completely run by Democrats there.
And so who knows what's happening there?
So let me ask you about how is it that the Republican legislature in Arizona is allowing this to happen?
So it's increasing the amount of drop boxes.
Now, this is not voter centers.
Can you make that distinction too?
Because, you know, I'm going to be voting for the first time here in Arizona.
And so I believe I could drop off the ballot to a voting center.
Can you talk about that?
Because people in our national audience might not understand how it works in Arizona.
Yeah, look.
So Arizona, like a lot of states, has implemented a couple of things, two really bad things.
One is drop boxes, which they're trying to make early and earlier and more available and less and less watched.
And so what happened in the last general election essentially was that there were a bunch of drop boxes.
We know the Zuckbucks helped fund a lot of these and they were uncameras on them.
And so this was part of the issue that was unveiled in 2000 Mules.
Those are open for essentially early ballot collection.
And vote centers were implemented for the first time.
And this is where you kind of get in the weeds.
And this is what everybody in America should be aware of, because what we're seeing happening in Maricopa County, we're seeing happen all across the rest of the country here is that what they're trying to do is get away from precinct by precinct voting.
And the reason why they want to do that, they want to eliminate precincts is because a precinct is a designated data set of individuals who essentially we know who is voting in that place and then we can track the physical ballots that are attached to that precinct.
Once they implement vote centers, what that basically means is that you can come in and vote from any precinct into that one place.
And then that means all the ballots are all mixed up all across the county.
And so essentially, when you have a county of 4 million plus people and millions of votes, you can't go back and actually track and associate ballots to specific precincts and know for certain where ballots essentially came from.
And this is a huge threat to our elections because now not only do you have drop boxes that are being unattended and we have people maybe taking advantage of the system, but now you have individual precinct by precinct destruction.
So, yeah, this is something that I think is really frustrating for me and for people to understand, which is Republicans have political power in Arizona.
And yet it becomes more and looking more and more like a Mark Elias-run experiment in states like Colorado or Washington or Oregon.
And so I cannot wrap my head around why the establishment in Arizona is so comfortable.
I mean, with this, Martha McSally ran for Senate twice and lost.
If we would have had secure elections, maybe she would have won.
I don't know.
I mean, she had her failures as a candidate, obviously.
However, the point is that even their own establishment kind of candidates don't benefit from this kind of loosey-goosey type balloting.
And Arizona, which used to be a comfortably 8 to 12 point Republican state, is now a battleground state that the electoral votes were sent to Biden and we have Kelly and now we have cinema.
I mean, it's quickly turning into a Colorado.
And so, you know, can you talk about now concretely how this can impact the coming race in November?
Because whomever wins the Republican primary here, Blake Masters looks like he's the frontrunner.
Kelly has $50 million in hard money.
But it might not matter if we kind of have this loosey-goosey balloting practices in Arizona.
Yeah, Charlie, you hit the nail on the head.
This is exactly what happened in Colorado.
The story, the untold story in Colorado, you know, we've heard about the blueprint, whatever.
Democrats take a lot more credit for what happened in Colorado.
The reality is that the Republican Party was extremely weak and extremely fractured.
That's exactly right.
And what happened in Colorado, which can happen in any state, by the way, and by the way, this is exactly what happened in Virginia.
And it wasn't this big Democrat blueprint that they just became so much more successful overnight.
The reality was that the Republican Party full of establishment hacks went into conservative areas, basically put conservatives into a box.
And then from that point forward, just allowed the state just to turn over.
And that's essentially what's happening now with Arizona, where we have a bunch of establishment Republicans in the county offices.
So they right now, most people don't realize this.
Maricopa County has four supervisors who are Republican and one who's a Democrat.
And so there should be no question when it comes to this stuff on election integrity, on supporting Republicans, on proposing a conservative agenda for voting where we have any issues whatsoever.
The problem is that we have Republicans totally acting like Democrats, working with Democrats, not even communicating with the Republican Party.
And we have a pretty conservative Republican leadership group now in Arizona, maybe one of the most conservative in the country.
And these guys just refuse to even work with them.
And so that's what you're seeing happen is, you know, like this situation with the drop boxes is that right now there should be no drop boxes.
You know, after 2000 mules, it should be a very simple, the Republican base is saying, we don't want drop boxes.
We want less early voting.
We want, and they're not even listening.
In fact, what they're doing is they're spending more of their time with the same old, same old establishment Democrats.
And they're basically aiding them to, you know, what we, what we've seen is, is cheating, you know, is taking advantage of voters.
And that's wrong.
So, and then who even gets ballots in Arizona, right?
I mean, they're now entertaining, sending out mass balloting.
Now, talk about the Tyler.
If I understand correctly, and you'll know it a lot better than I, there's a potential ballot referendum that they're collecting signatures for as well that could be on the midterm ballot that could almost make HR1 style Arizona kind of permanent.
Is that right?
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And what they essentially what the Democrats want to do in every state, if they could, is just make sure that everybody gets what they call motor voter in some states or automatic vote by mail, which is that everybody essentially gets flooded with a vote in their box for any given reason.
And again, if you haven't watched 2000 Mules, you have to.
If you watch 2000 Mules, you'll know right away why that's a bad idea.
The bad idea here is that if you start doing that, and look, Arizona State University is the largest ground campus in America.
You have hundreds of thousands of students come from all over the place into Arizona just for an education and then they leave, but they register to vote while they're here.
Exactly.
And so what happens is now you have stacks of votes that are ending up in mail spots in places.
And this happens also in the retirement community, guys.
This is West Valley.
Yeah.
You have retirement facilities, the exact same way.
People move here and then they unfortunately move out to you know, live out their last days in their home hometown, or or they pass away and you have stacks of votes that are now ending up in the hands of really bad people.
And you should if you, if you care about America you shouldn't want that to happen.
You should want people to have the responsibility to say hey, i'm going to go vote.
You know, that's how America has always functioned since day one is that We take a lot of pride as Americans that we have the ability to vote in our communities.
And that's what we should return to.
Them trying to change that is a really huge, weird precedent that they're setting that allows, I think, a huge slippery slope for a lot weirder election law.
Just let's talk about more nationally here.
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Do you think we have a better chance of taking back the house after Ron DeSantis' maps in Florida?
You were warning about the maps for quite some time.
Where do you think we're at with that?
Yeah, I mean, the truth is that it's hard to separate.
We've had a couple of battles that we've won on the redistricting front, but the maps this year are about as bad as they were 10 years ago.
Probably slightly worse if you were to evaluate it.
And thank goodness for governors like Ron DeSantis, who laid down the law and said, no, we're not doing this.
I'm not going to approve any maps that are bad.
And, you know, that's what the RGA should be doing is making sure that Republican governors are actually standing up for redistricting every 10 years.
Second Vote And Election Maps00:06:32
Like it's like their one and only job because it should be.
But yeah, I mean, look, we're in a good position to take back the house.
I think we probably will.
It probably shouldn't be.
It probably won't be as much as we should, quite frankly.
It should be 50 or 70 seats, but it might be 20 or 30 because of bad maps, right?
Well, and I'll say this is that conservatives winning in conservative places is good and moderates winning in moderate places is probably okay.
I actually think that Kevin McCarthy is a little bit better than Paul Ryan because he's left conservatives mainly alone in conservative areas and he deserves some credit for that.
And I think that's the Trump effect.
But we've got to keep fighting for conservatives to win conservative states in conservative areas.
That's the only way that the movement is going to grow.
And that's what we're fighting for on the front lines.
It's a super important point that we're going to have a wave.
We have a wave effect coming in November.
Are we going to get every possible point we can or are we just going to win by a little?
We may never get this kind of alignment of a midterm opportunity where we could win so significantly, it could actually give us an advantage for six to eight years to come.
It could be that big.
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So, Tyler, let's talk more about this guy that you mentioned, Richter or Riker, or whatever his name is, Stephen Richer.
Who is he?
He's a Republican, allegedly, isn't he?
Yeah, so it's really interesting.
Um, so Stephen Richer came into Arizona, uh, came in real hard and fast from out of state.
And what he was trying to do, what he was trying to accomplish was uh, run for office, quite honestly.
I had met Stephen at when I was, I believe, he was county chair of Maricopa County, and he he came into he came into town and was basically looking for somewhere to run.
I mean, he admitted so much to me when I had met him for lunch because of some mutual relationships and friends that said, Hey, you should go sit down with him.
And I got some real bad vibes from that.
Anybody that just wanted to run for office, anyway.
So, what ended up happening after a few months was that he started showing up and started knocking what was then our Democrat County recorder.
Uh, and you know, rightfully so, going after him for a number, a vast number of things and appearing to be very conservative and wanted to stand up for election integrity because we were up against what seemed to be a Soros-funded Democrat county recorder.
And then, you know, wouldn't you know it?
As soon as the guy got elected and into office, which he barely won by, you know, I think it was just like a few thousand votes, has immediately just joined the moderate Republicans and Democrats on doing anything and everything in his power to not work with people on these major election integrity initiatives.
And it's really been demoralizing.
In fact, it's even worse than that.
He actually announced launching a PAC to go after anyone that actually supports election integrity, which is even more frightening that a guy who's serving as county recorder.
I would say the same thing about a Democrat and a Republican, a guy who's the chief elections official running a PAC to go after anyone that supports election integrity.
Yes.
So it's totally insane.
And most people aren't aware of it, but he's not, has been a little bit of a letdown, would be to say the least.
And maximally, he hasn't has not been on the team of conservatives since he's been in office.
Yeah, I mean, so you have this.
So he's the county recorder for Maricopa County, which again, I want to reinforce Arizona does not have a lot of counties.
It doesn't.
I mean, I come from Illinois where we have like 145 counties.
You know, Ohio has a ton of counties.
Every 20 miles, there's a county.
Arizona is weird in that sense.
Not weird in a bad way.
It just has what, like 11, 12, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Yeah, I believe it's 15.
But yeah, like almost two-thirds of the state is in Maricopa County.
And he controls all the recording process for the whole county.
He runs as a Republican and he launched a super PAC saying, I want to elect pro-democracy Republicans.
What is he really saying?
He's saying that he wants to have mass mail-in voting, HR1, everywhere.
He is a tool of the very same people that destroyed Colorado, destroyed Oregon, destroyed Washington, destroyed by using the mass mail-in balloting scheme.
Yeah, I mean, look, at very least, he's doing everything in his power that allows the left to just take total advantage of the voters, in my opinion, with these, with these, with these methods.
And so that, I mean, that's what you have to understand as Republicans today is that the Democrats are trying to implement a very specific playbook in exactly what they did in California, exactly what they've done down in Colorado, exactly what they've done to New Mexico.
And what they're doing is trying to implement these things so that the voters actually have less voice because they're washed out by this massive wave of unattended voters, essentially, people who are uneducated, who are not even aware that they're voting, that they're sometimes trading their vote to friendly or for food or help.
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And so we need to be getting in the middle of this and demanding that every Republican that serves in a county position is 100% lockstep with us and they're showing up and they're good natured.
And the best way that you can really see this is when they show up and they pick up your phone calls and they participate and they want to listen to you and they sit down with you.
If they're not doing that, they're helping the other side.
That's right.
And that's what's happening in America.
They're controlled opposition.
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Tyler's doing a great job running that.
Big announcements coming soon.
Tyler, thanks so much.
Thanks so much, Charlie.
Thank you.
Good work.
Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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