 Major sponsors for Abel Denonair include Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Al-A'Israel. Food sponsors for Abel Denonair include Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. Major media sponsors for Abel Denonair include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, www.thisisabronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, U.S. Press Court, Domestic and International. Anchor, FM, and Spotify. Hello and welcome to this edition of Abel Denonair, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. Arlene is here today on the phone. Say hi, Arlene. Okay. And welcome to Abel Denonair. And on this edition, before we get to the second part of the Abel Denonair election special, let's thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many, many, many, many, many, many others. Thank you to our sponsors. Now let's go to the second part of the election special of Abel Denonair. Before we get to the numbers of the electoral votes, let's really explain in simple terms to our viewing audience who happens to be people with special needs and people that serve people with special needs and who really don't understand the electoral college. So I'm going to really explain this. And you can find this on Wikipedia. So the simple answer to what the electoral college is is the United States electoral college in simple terms which can be found on Wikipedia. Okay. So the United States electoral college is a name. It's not a real college, but it is the name to describe the official 538 president-electors who come every four years during a presidential election. Okay. To give their official votes to the president and vice president of the United States. The number of each of the electors of each state is determined by the number of the representatives a state has. So we have, so we have several states and so it's given that name. There are 435 representatives in total and 100 senators. The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution awarded Washington DC three electors. Combined, there is a total of 538 electors. Electors usually vote for a winner of their popular vote in the state. In some states, they vote depending on the popular vote in each congressional district. The Constitution leaves states to decide how electors will vote. Faithful electors are, faithful electors are electors. And that they vote against the popular vote. There is a fine in some states if the elections are thrown. The electoral college was created by the founding fathers of the United States and they were afraid that the popular vote would be easily swayed. Because congressional representatives are determined by more electors because most states have to take a winner of a take all system and the winner of the popular vote in the state gained all the electors. Several presidents have lost the popular vote and won the electoral vote. A candidate needs to win a majority of electors. So let's go back and let me read the rest of this so you guys understand it. The electoral college plays a very important role in today's elections and is the subject of a lot of controversy and some people approve of the system, some do not. And that is what the electoral college is in simple terms. Anything you wanna say about that and the reason why people with special citizenship vote? Yeah. And the reason why a lot of people, and the reason why a lot of people don't vote is that for many years there's been situations with not having the polling places accessible. And they're trying to change that in a lot of states that to have more accessible polling places with. Yeah. So now, why don't we do this? And so it's gonna be in editing. So let's, the election as it stands now, the election results as it stands now and the map will be shown. So right now it is frozen with Joe Biden at 264 and Donald Trump at 214. So the map will, then the map and we'll be putting that this map is from the Associated Press. The Associated Press has not called the race. So they are not in charge of the race. They have not called it. But the map is on your computer, you can go to it and it's from the Associated Press. And as it's been updated as from 11th, 1143 AM, and this is live as it happens. So as 1143 AM, we're still at 264 and you can see that we're still at 264 and you need 270 to win, okay? So the reason why it's been frozen, so we tried to explain to you why this is happening because of COVID-19 and Vermont has an uptick in COVID cases. But because of COVID-19, just so people with special needs are viewing audience can understand, is that a lot of votes haven't been counted yet because the ballots were mailed home to people's homes so they, because they don't wanna go to the polls. So it's in a sense an absentee ballot if you're not at the polls. You know, there's an uptick in Vermont because probably too many people were at the polls or that kind of thing. So as we stand now, Joe Biden has 264 and Donald Trump has 214. And as I said in the other, in part one of our election special, I'm gonna repeat some of the things because this is extremely important. Joe Biden, even though I'm impartial, being internalist, there are certain candidates that do more for our population, you know, people with special needs. And it's extremely important to go over, to go over some of that in terms of what Joe Biden will do for the special needs population and let's go over that, okay? Joe Biden's page simply says Joe Biden coalition here. So there's a coalition for Biden. If anybody wants to volunteer for his campaign, you know, it's JoeBiden.com forward slash disability coalition, but there is to fully ensure what according to the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with special needs need a shot of getting ahead. So Joe Biden is going to be, if he gets in as president he will be having more jobs and more services for people with disabilities. And you know, similar to what Bernie Sanders is doing for our beautiful state of Vermont now. He's giving people with special needs a lot of services and it's very important. Biden's disability, I'm gonna go over this. According to the newspaper or the website, it's called The Nation, so the nation.com. There's an article here. Biden's disability policy is surprisingly good. How his campaign is not yet consistent, but it will be getting more consistent to help people with special needs. You know, he's going to be giving more jobs and more services, more medical care. But basically, Biden is going to put back what Donald Trump took away. And according to Donald Trump's campaign, Donald Trump wants to really get rid of special needs services. But let's see, just so you guys, the viewers have an idea what Donald Trump did for people with special needs disability services. Let's see, what he did. Yeah, but we're not talking about that. Yes, back in 2016, he did mark people with special needs. But yeah, Trump's administration, let's see, July 11th, 2020, according to Disability Scoop here, Donald Trump, he released aid for disability service providers. So according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, back in July, $15 billion will go towards providers serving individuals covered by Medicaid and children's health insurance programs, including people with special needs. So yeah, Trump is doing things, but he's not doing enough in our opinion. He needs to do more. And if he does become president, Trump, in my opinion, needs to stop mocking people with disabilities. You can't go on TV, can't go on television and mock the press or mock reporters or mock people. If you're going to help people, you can't mock them, you have to be with them. So that's just my personal opinion in terms of being part of the press. He shuts, he tells the press in the press room shut your mouth, don't open your mouth, that kind of thing, he can't do that. He told somebody from CBS News recently not to talk, so it's not a good thing. Anything you want to say about that? Hello, Arlene? Anything you want to say about that? About how Trump should act as president towards people with special needs? Okay, that's your opinion. All right. So, yeah, so let's go over again really what, let's go back to the page that we need to go back to. Okay, can you not do that? Okay, so let's go back to Biden's disability policy. Really talk about that. So yeah, it's surprisingly good. There has been damage, according to some advocates, there has been damage to the ADA. We need to have, get rid of more curb cuts. We need to have more ramps. We need to have certain things, but according to Biden, Biden's disability policy in terms of COVID-19 is roughly equivalent. This is according to one reporter's opinion. Basically, due to COVID-19, a lot of services have were shut for people with special needs. So according to this reporter from the nation.com article, it says because of COVID-19, it's like a car being on fire and your mechanic is suggesting a plan to replace the brakes. Rotate the tires and change the oil. According to nation.com, a nation.com reporter. So yeah, a lot of services need to be put back in place. During COVID-19, a lot of services were taken away. If a person with a disability needs an epilepsy specialist, you can't shut the office down, you know? So things like that need to change. And according to Governor Scott, matter of fact, let's go to COVID-19, since we're talking about that, and the elections at the same time because it's related. It's related. So let's, disability, the wrestling papers, don't do that. The wrestling papers. The microphone, the microphone. Disability, mask wearing. Oh, here we go, this is important. Back in August, Scott mandated, Governor Scott mandated for people with everybody to wear a mask, okay? However, however, this is according to the VT digger, Governor Scott said in August that he issued everybody to wear a mask and cover their faces out in public during COVID-19. However, if you are, let me go back down to the part here, it's important here. If the mask is hurting you because you're disabled, you don't have to wear it. But it's mandated for everybody else to wear it. You know, that's basically what, I'm just trying to look for the part here where it said that. Oh, here it is. Yeah, for those wearing a mask, according to the VT digger, for those wearing a mask and that you're concerned for those who aren't, I am asking you to give them the benefit of this doubt. You cannot attack or shame anybody with a disability for not wearing a mask because there could be a reason why they're not wearing a mask. So if it's mentally straining you or you're not able to wear a mask, you don't have to wear a mask, just social distance basically. So it's really important that we need to wear a mask though if you are going on a GMTA bus or you are going somewhere that requires you to wear a mask like a store or something like that. But if you are disabled, you don't have to wear one. But you are responsible to social distance. You know, getting back to the election map, we really hope that according to the Electoral College and those that really need it, that really need to understand, we really hope that this election special really helped people understand it. And we wish the right candidate to win. But in terms of this commentary that I'm gonna be giving in a second, so let me go to the commentary because it's really important. For the past 25 years, I have been a journalist and helping people with special needs understand themselves and understand the ability that they have despite their challenge and despite their disability. I am stepping back from voting. I am independent, but I am stepping back from voting and will not vote in any election due to the fact that I am in the press and I need to remain impartial. We hope that the right person does win. And being impartial, just so everybody understands, let me look up the word impartial so people understand what that means. Let me define what impartial means and then we'll end the show. Define impartial. Impartial means, what is impartial? British English being impartial especially for an election means that you are able to act that you are able to act fairly because you are not personally involved in this situation. Yes, we are advocates. I don't like what's going on with the current president and what he's doing, but I'm not liberated to say, you know, really say, yes, I think there should be more services that he should do for people with special needs and certain things like he shouldn't part. I feel that he should not put a person with a disability inside an institution. People with special needs should not be in an institution, but that's my personal opinion. But yes, I need to remain impartial being a journalist so I will not be voting in any presidential election. Let the right person win. Anything you want to say to that before we end the show? Well, that is your, that is your, that is your, matter of fact, there is, I know comedy makes you know, certain things better for people due to COVID. So I'm gonna see if you guys can hear this. I'm going to, there's a clip. We're gonna put this in the editing because I think it might be good. And I'm gonna play the audio excerpt. See, because my, yeah. So let's, here we go. As far as temperament, I think I have a great temperament. I built a phenomenal business with incredible iconic assets. I've had tremendous success with number one best sellers all over the place and everything else I've done. But I will tell you this, what I am far and away greater than an entertainer is a businessman. And that's, believe me, my temperament is very good, very calm. With that, we end with that. We end this edition of Abledon On Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Thank you to our sponsors. Sponsors for Abledon On Air include, Green Mountain Support Services of Vermont, Washington County Mental Health, Alaa Israel. Food sponsors for Abledon On Air include, Geffen Foods Israel, Osam Foods Israel. 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