flores, so some of the rebel groups that have caused this is a surgeon, meaning that they, i, and varying, that france saw it of interest for the jihad is to not come to an end to be here perpetually. but emanuel micron is on a 4 day tour of this continent is going to visit god born, the will be in no goal. and he will end these 4 in the d out of the way with some of the strongest feelings about the french, emanating from there was a peace agreement that was signed in that region. but they still see the french very much as being a spent force in that region. being able, or rather, i'm willing to do anything to address the insurgency that's been caused by the expansion of what they say is the key. godly government,

represented in this case by m 20 to the rebels. the french have a long way to go here, if they're going to research and re kindled the relationship that they've had with the numerous african countries. because more and more we're hearing of countries re considering even the use of the frank, that is the currency that was introduced by fronts as a former colonial power here. and they say that that has not necessarily serve their interest. and it's only served to fraud in as says that it allowed them to, to pin these countries down and have them in a choke cold over the economy. that's not looking very good. frankly, the french president not receiving a very warm welcome from former french colonies, as the african union is now poised to join the g to integrate more deeply into the

bricks family, and move increasingly towards international trade in currencies other than the dollar and the europe. hello, multi polar world. by more it ought to be thought. ah, a wrong one, i'll just don't hold any new world. yes, to shape out disdain becomes the african and engagement it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground with

the free and fair elections are the cornerstone of democracy, giving citizens a voice in their government in the most fundamental way. but our elections today truly free and fair, or how they evolved into a game of money politics as party grow increasingly devices. i'm christy. i and you're watching the cost of everything. where today we're going to be taking a look at election. how much does it cost or countries to host election? what is all the money spent on and are they truly free and fair? ah, the political spending in the us 2020 election total 14.4 $1000000000.00,

which is more than double the total cost of the previous record breaking 2016 election cycle. so where does all that money go? well, over half of it goes to media and advertising on television, radio, news, outlet, web, as and social media. about 15 percent of that goes towards fundraising efforts to bring in more donors and sponsors. 20 percent then goes towards administrative costs and salaries for the campaign. managers and consultants. and the last 12 percent goes towards the campaign expenses such as consulting events, surveys. so in 2020, there was a total of $8500000000.00 spent on over $9300000.00 tv as radio and digital media. now, one can argue that this chunk of money was completely wasted as a us easily outspend every other country in the world. but without producing an election, that is in any way more fair or free a lot of spending,

but very little substance as the exceptional amount of time and money does not produce in engaging democratic process. the u. s. ranks near the bottom in terms of voter participation when compared with others developed nations. now in comparison, india's last general election cost $7000000000.00 with most of the budget going towards social media as and travel. now when the relative population of both countries are taken into account 300000000 in the u. s. versus $1300000000.00 and india, the per capita spending is way out of line with that of the world's largest democracy . now, in germany, campaigns only last 6 weeks, so while there is no limit on campaign contributions, there simply isn't enough time to run up a huge bill. parties are given air time on to public television networks and usually makes just 190. second, add to convey their message during those slots. meanwhile,

in the u. k. elections bending is strictly limited, and each party cannot spend more than $30000000.00 pounds in the year before the election. now in the u. s, a big portion of this outrages budget comes from dark money, which is contributions from donors that remain hidden from the public. the amount of dark money the us spends in an off year was almost $3.00 times as much as the $30000000.00 pounds great britain spent and far more or less bring in professor char torres, spell a c author and law professor as destined law. so 1st off, how do us election campaign spend their money? so there are $2.00 ways of thinking about the cost of elections. one is the cost to administer elections. estimated to be about $2000000000.00 for a general election and the united states. cost of the federal action was

over $14000000000.00 and why our elections so expensive and efficient and which countries have a better model. the united states has expensive election administration because we have so many different entities that are administering elections. so we have a level of federal oversight which is actually quite small. most of election administration is administered at a hyper and local level. so one way to think of the american election is that it's not just one election. it's really 10000 different elections running simultaneously. now it looks like there's been a decline in load or turn out in the us. what caused this and why are some voter turnout so much higher in other countries like singapore,

with 95 percent out. so voter turnout was actually up in 2020. that was a very unique election. one of the things that res turned out in the 2020 election is states to rely voting rules to accommodate voters during the pandemic. but what states have done in the last 2 years is many of the same states that relaxed their rules in 2020 of tighten them again. now we saw an unprecedented level of political ad spending in 2020. do you think this was an effective use of funds and does it set a precedent for future campaigns going forward? so in the area of campaign finance, nearly action has been more expensive than the previous presidential action. and we definitely saw that pattern in 2020, which was the most expensive federal election the united states has ever seen.

so the trend of american elections costing more and more in terms of campaign finance is a trend that's continuing. it's hard to know how you measure efficiency in this context. i mean, you can look at the amount of money that is spent per vote. and the, the candidates, you end up spending the most per voter are the vanity candidates. so for example, when connie west ran for president in 2020, he had one of the highest costs per voter because very few people ended up voting for him. even though he and his team had spent millions of dollars. but it's difficult to think of elections in terms of that type of efficiency because there

are other values at stake including democratic values. so one of the reasons that we have such high spending in us elections is our supreme court thinks of money equalling speech. and under our 1st amendment, the supreme court has been unwilling to regulate, in a very serious way the, the expenditures that are made in our elections. and not all elections are fair. there are many cases of electoral fraud. voters suppression unbalanced campaign finance rules and imbalance access to media in what country or countries do we see the most of that? so one of the, i think, really pernicious math that persists about american elections, which was perpetuated by ex president trump while he was president, is that there's rampant voter fraud. this is

a mess. and unfortunately millions of his followers believed this mess. and so, for example, after the 2020 election, there were over 60 law suits that challenge boats in swing states in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. and the accusation was often that there was voter fraud. but in these court cases, they could not prove any voter fraud and voter fraud in reality is a really rare occurrence. you know, every now and then you will get someone who's not qualified to vote voting. and occasionally you get some knuckleheads somewhere who tries to vote twice the people who try to vote twice. and people who vote when they are not qualified, usually get caught after the fact and prosecuted. but those prosecutions are more rare than being struck by lightning. so it's not

a real problem in the united states, but the rhetoric around it would lead many americans to believe it is. and what exactly constitutes as voter fraud? well, so for example, in my state in florida we are very strict rules on ex felons getting their voting rights back. and so if you are an ex felon, and you haven't done all of the steps to get your voting rights restored, and you vote than that's an illegal vote. and so that is one of the examples of what could be prosecuted after the fact. ah, yes, someone votes when they're not allowed to vote. and then again, there have been examples here in florida. there's this place called the villages. it's very conservative. and

a number of individuals in the villages were prosecuted for voting twice. and i that is the type of voter frog we get, but that was essentially 3 individuals in the villages getting caught doing that out of millions of boats in the state of florida. thank you so much, professor char, taurus fallacy for your time today. now one of my african elections, how much does it cost to run an election and some of the african nation and is the cost higher? we'll have more after the break with ah ah

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a various jobs with artificial intelligence. real summoning with a robot must protect its own existence with who is the aggressor today i'm authorized with additional strong sanctions? today, russia was the country with the most sanctions imposed against it, and nobody was constantly growing through such of literally almost a cosigner as you speak on them. when you're sitting mostly mine, the shuttle were banding all in ports of russian oil and gas energy. and so for the price, for another guarantee was lower the british, as we said, said this info little,

we're pretty good regarding joe biden. imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. mr. bursher boomerang ah ah, welcome back. african electrons are also remarkably expensive to run and yet they are very contested between 202018. it is estimated that africa spend approximately $44000000000.00 on holding elections. countries in africa spend on average $4.50 per capita on their elections compared to the world average of $2.10 per person. now while the. c uses cost is high due to ramp and spend me on ads and no limits from campaigned owners. africa elections are expensive for a very different reason. lack of trust. the cost of running elections in africa has

been pushed up by low levels of trust in the electoral process to manage miss trust . some have turn to foreign companies to print out balance with expensive security features like those used on bank notes. others have procured costly electronic voting machines to minimize fraud, setting the taxpayer back. but unfortunately, the votes were still contested. kenya's 2022 election for instance, cost the state $370000000.00 to run, yet was still contested at the supreme court with the losing candidate alleging criminality. the countries, previous election in 2017 cost $500000000.00 and saw the presidential results nullify due to quote serious irregularities. so while countries in africa started opening up to democracy 3 decades ago, the region is still characterized by weak institutions, manipulation of electoral law. and serious limitations of civil and political rights. all of that contributes to low level of trust in

a fair and free election. if voters and candidates do not believe in the institutions, processes and structures behind an election, then there is little that a new high tech, innovative bono machines that can do to help. and for more or less bring in reginald strasser, king journalist, and senior producer at sierra early on broadcasting corporation. so reginald, what is the cost of elections and other countries and how does that compare with that of the us? why do you see in our system what we do? these are to be out a general elections which includes the presidential election on the mentor elections, the local council elections. and so it's a combined connections for all of these other representatives. and then in for a generic election presentation of generations, cost of $20000000.00 an average of $20000000.00 and done the

government the. busy government contribution was about $11000000.00 and the rescue from the international community here. and you see that kind of murder. i don't know whether you guys because you're simply in america as compared to horses value. if you are, we are a class of his lectures. rather than having a single presidential election at one time. now how our electrons run in other countries to keep on getting days off and what kind of laws are there surrounding election days? let me rephrase my answer to that question that our election system is governed by the 1st before the constitution. and then the various roles. i'm down the she was out to the truck commissioner for i knew which supreme tennis

or supervisors, the nation which overseas the missions now coming to your presentation. we are going to cut over date of the candidates. busy for the elections for the presidential, for the mentee, as well as the local councils, and read, you know, believe, and electra electra electra or to teach all what it's going to be a good teacher. she come from religious groups all. busy from tribe, no, we don't believe that, but we believe in our media positions based on the membership drug project or some would have been ready. you are historically in the us, you all the reporter can send a demo purse and then on to say, a 1000000000 can on the last time she brought to reach linda,

what happened to work, but here soon we em all the tang. but if you go pass by this to strongest, ah, the other because got rid of a b, c and the s and p proxy with the 2nd part. these are the 2 strongest odd years. of course, in recent times have been challenged by a peer to see like m b, m and all the rest of it. but they're going to be the same goes both parties failed on student godson that should be suffering from resurrection. and now there's this growing, we're calling to prohibit machine voting and machine counting ballots and feature elections. and instead revert back to hands counting. what do you make of these concerns and are they valid?

well, i low and the lectures commission is trailyn is vice hudson is when somebody at your supervisor the lectures. and we have lectures, observers ah, from, from the, into the, from, i can look a little as well as in the international community as well. remember i told you that we have a do not know like on the open, the, you know, the british government, the american government, you know, the, they're all saying they're trying to present electron observe. you've got an issue with them to see to want to, to elections. but again, you know, whether these electrons are monitored through the day when we don't want to renew that up to the last continent, the declaration of the reserves, they're better responsibility to finish. but then,

and sometimes you on post the lecture disagreement. yeah, i'm one of those with sacrifice and the observers by their bags and leave the if possible. if it's so in class, we'll decide to take the bottle to the court for a legal room. if be cut off because of one reason you know that and samantha back to lizzie renewals are, it's invariably dancing about us. but today, i guess that's on that mindset of the change and elections have been more and more polarized and recent years. it was very evident in the recent us election and is also now the brazilian election. why hasn't gone so polarized and contentious?

well, i didn't, well, i'm rude. oh, this general world just because you know, i will watch the emergency room of drop a me a bonus ro in champagne, and then you got the judge brown's mom was just gotten on was really a supportive. yeah. even just the same way. are you booking for borders injections? i don't think we're going to go to look good. thank you so much. reginald strasser, king journalist and senior producer at sierra leon broadcasting corporation for coming on today. it's easy to see who wins and inexpensive election cycle. the party with a bigger check. as big money and super packed, dominate the u. s. political campaigns. it starts to drown out the voices of

ordinary americans. in a democracy, politicians are expected to represent each person equally, regardless of their financial status. the principle of one person, one vote means that no matter who we are. 7 regardless of education, housing or financial status that they will be heard. however, money and politics complicates this idealistic system. when organizations donate a large contribution to the campaigns, that politician is more inclined to be responsive to that organizations needs. now this puts the voices of every day citizens at a disadvantage. the same is true in africa where money talks, but citizens are aware of this unfair disadvantage and they do not trust the voting system. increasingly, economic and political inequalities are interlaced, leaving many americans, poor and voiceless. the u. s. now has some of the lowest rates of upward mobility

in any developed country in the world. so while the us as a self appointed champion of democracy, maybe it is time for it to learn from other countries on how to run a truly free and fair election. solutions would include tighter limits on contributions candidates can directly receive greater transparency of who pays for political ads and disclosing all donors and stopping the flow of dark money. i'm christy, i. thanks for watching. and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything ah ah, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free people, and to defend the world from great who's

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