Shadowing Practice: BREAKING: Scott Colom Increases Lead DESPITE Massive Voter Fraud - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We've got a pretty wild update to get to regarding the midterm elections as Mississippi has new votes coming in.
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Scott Colombe, the Democrat, increases his lead, but not without insane amounts of voter suppression.
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Hey folks, my name is Dave Neal.
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I'm a stand -up comic and host of the Rush Hour podcast.
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Forgive my aesthetic, I am recording here in the car on the way to a stand -up show tonight in Atlanta, Georgia.
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If you happen to see this and want to come to the show, by all means, we'll be at Helium Comedy Club at 7 .30.
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But in the meantime, while I charge my car, let's get into these updates.
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Scott Colombe, the Democrat running for office, is winning and winning by enough to call this race.
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But what we're learning is they threw out way more of the provisional ballots than they even anticipated.
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He continues to expand his lead.
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So I'm going to dive into this article.
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We'll share what Scott Colombe actually has to say.
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But check this out.
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Mississippi's newest barrier to voting is Experian Data, brother of slain civil rights activist rights.
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So 62 years after this man's death, the Andrew Goodman Foundation is working to register Mississippi students to vote.
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This man was killed 62 years ago because he was trying, and he was killed by the KKK, murdered him on June 21st,
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1964, because he was trying to get black Mississippians to vote.
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An affidavit ballot is what Mississippi calls a provisional ballot, or ballots that for various reasons must undergo additional scrutiny.
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Some may have used an affidavit ballot because they did not have a photo identification on them.
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Others, because a poll worker could not find their name on the rolls.
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Estimates of what is still unresolved nationwide run from 12 ,000 to 18 ,000 ballots in a U .S.
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Senate race that has not been called.
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So they registered all of these voters.
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Then they show up and check this out.
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Watson's office flagged them by using address data from Experian, the credit bureau, under a $50 ,000 contract last year to clean the rolls statewide.
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Mississippi Today has reported that the data is unverified and wrongly inactivated legitimate voters.
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How messed up is this?
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So here's the latest updates regarding the Mississippi race.
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Now, this is huge for democracy that it was too big to rig, but this is what they've done for absolute decades.
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And this is why we need a better system.
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We need a better system where you can't do all of these shenanigans to delegitimize people's votes.
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Mississippi U .S.
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Senate 807 Hines County Affidavit Votes.
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Scott Colom is up plus 703.
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And nationwide, he's increasing his lead to almost 4 ,000.
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So he's netting votes.
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Even with them trying to stop the counting and stop people from getting their votes counted, he's continuing to defy all odds.
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The Mississippi Secretary of State purged thousands of voters from the voter rolls using credit card data, preventing thousands of people from voting.
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It could have cost Cologne the election if it were slightly closer.
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That office should be a top target for Democrats next year.
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Listen, Mississippi's a blue state now.
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It's not going back.
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Now that they're going to be able to get enough eyeballs on these situations
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and call out these racist and illegal acts of voter suppression, you're going to have to try.
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And by the way, if you're a Republican, just try to win on policy.
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Don't win by gerrymandering and voter suppression
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and closing down polling locations in cities where people don't have to wait in line all day long.
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And, you know, they pray off of cities because cities tend to vote more for Democratic candidates.
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So breaking news, Democrat Scott Cullum's lead in the Mississippi Senate race has increased to 4 ,400 votes.
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And they say, just call the effing race already.
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I mean, they're literally splitting hairs now.
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Scott Colombe has won.
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He's going to get onboarded late.
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All eyes are going to be on him.
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And this is a guy that is taking the country by storm.
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Nobody thought he had a chance.
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Literally nobody.
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I wanted to share what Scott Colombe had to say.
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Mississippi using the credit card agency to scrub voter rolls.
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Here's his response to this information.
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Do you want to stop using credit data or
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that the legislature should pass a law restricting him from using this type of data?
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Absolutely.
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And Spearier told him they were not reliable, and he did it anyways.
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So I think that this chaos is the result of that decision.
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And it's not me just saying it.
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The reporting about this has been great.
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Republicans and, you know, Republican counties with election commissioners, I don't know their political parties, doesn't really matter, but people in Rankin County,
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people in Lee County are saying this was chaotic.
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You know, I said at the primary that I had a good friend who voted in the primary.
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luckily he's gonna be out of color election day
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so he voted after t he votes for everything it didn't matter
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if it was dog catching this guy votes
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and they moved him to inactive status and luckily he called it
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and got it fixed but our secretary of state why did he use experience
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when they told him it was unreliable yeah and again let me cut that off there
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As far as I'm concerned, excuse me, hold on my lap top up.
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As far as I'm concerned, they all have to be investigated.
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We need a system that is a national day of voting.
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We need to make it easier to vote.
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And by the way, this is what
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Trump tried to do with the SAVE Act.
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Remember, the SAVE Act wasn't about voter rights.
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It wasn't about voter integrity and voter safety.
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It was about making it harder for people to register, making it harder for women to vote.
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Women might tend to vote more
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Democrat, depending on where you live, but making it harder for them to vote because if they ever changed their name due to marriage,
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they'd have to produce a birth certificate.
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Let me ask you guys this.
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Can you find your birth certificate today?
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I know some of you can.
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I've traveled a lot for a million bucks.
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I couldn't tell you where the hell my birth certificate is.
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And vote, you should be allowed to have same day registration.
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You should be allowed to show up to a poll with your driver's license and vote.
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And if for whatever reason they audit your vote
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and find out maybe you're not a legal citizen
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or whatever the case may be that should have already been worked out
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when you got your license in the first place
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or what other other document you have
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so vote like illegal voting essentially is not an issue
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it's it's on such a minimal level in most cases it's done by people whose spouse died
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and then they vote on their behalf um
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it it literally has been happened to several republicans where husband dies oh i knew he wanted to vote
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so so then
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when the mail -in ballot comes to vote on their behalf that's illegal people have been caught
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but this idea that we can take a whole group of people make them inactive
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and just hope that they're so broke so busy
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so you know you know worried about their own lives
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that they're not going to take the time to go through the system to figure
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it all out i gotta tell you
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and again i don't know who to blame on this one whether experian was in on it
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or whether they were just like taking the government contract but these credit agencies are so insanely corrupt.
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I got my credit knocked down.
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I spent my whole life with a perfect credit, literally as good as it can be.
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The company that was paying my student loans stopped doing auto payments without my knowledge.
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And I missed several payments and it knocked my credit score down hundreds of points.
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And there was nothing I could do about it.
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And then I couldn't get a good loan because I had bad credit score.
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So credit score is such a problematic system in the first place for so many reasons.
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Like why is it you can pay your rent for 20 years straight and then still can't afford to buy a home,
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even if you've showed that you're a, you know, sort of a reliable person.
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So the credit scores find a new way to mess with people.
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And unfortunately for the Republicans in this case, it wasn't enough because Scott Cullum's winning by a large enough margin.
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But I tell you what, man, it's scary out there.
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It's scary to think as naive as someone like me might be, and I cover the news,
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to think that this is still happening in today's world.
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62 years after a man was murdered by the KKK, all because he was inspiring people to vote.
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That's what Charlie Kirk was doing, right?
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He was getting
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Republicans out to vote at college campuses.
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Say what you want about him, but I appreciate that there's infrastructure to help people learn how to get registered to vote.
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I think, and I think the Republican Party wouldn't like this, I think it should be easier to get registered to vote.
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I think younger people would be more likely to vote.
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You know, they move around, college town, they're back home with their family, they're living on someone's couch.
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Sometimes it's just like hard when you're a young adult to know even where to vote.
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I remember when I was in college, I was like, what's my county?
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How do I, like they make it challenging for you.
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It shouldn't be that way.
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It should be a national holiday.
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And also elections should be publicly funded.
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Our tax dollars would be better spent going to candidates
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so they all had the same amount of money so
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that they couldn't pull any shenanigans
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and have elon musk spend a bunch of money to smear others um
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it would be better for our tax dollars to go to
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that versus private money going to that
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and then tax cuts for the ultra wealthy make it so
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that our tax dollars like we pay a higher percentage in taxes than rich people do
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because they donate to the um
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you know to the politicians who are you know maybe not voting on things like taxing the ultra wealthy and whatnot.
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So again, just a thought.
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Unbelievable to see this play out.
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But here it is.
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It's not going to be enough.
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Call the race.
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Call it already.
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Mississippi is blue, baby.
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And as a relocated
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New Englander to Tennessee, I got to tell you, it would be the blue wave will reach its final destination when Tennessee is blue.
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But in the meantime, congrats to our neighbor of the south or, you know, close enough neighbor to the south.
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Someone give me a map.
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We are happy for you.
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All right, Atlanta, I'll see you tonight.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “BREAKING: Scott Colom Increases Lead DESPITE Massive Voter Fraud”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: vote, voter, credit, Mississippi, Scott. This video has 165 sentences and 1882 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:45. The speaker talks fast, about 193 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| voter noun | /ˈvoʊtɚ/ | Someone who votes or is entitled to vote. |
| ballot noun | /ˈbælət/ | A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a… |
| poll noun | /poʊl/ | A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. |
| certificate noun | /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/ | A document containing a certified statement. |
| suppression noun | /səˈpɹɛʃən/ | The act or instance of suppressing. |
| behalf noun | /bɪˈhæf/ | The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something. |
| scary adjective | /ˈskɛə.ɹi/ | Causing fear or anxiety |
| knock verb | /nɑk/ | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. |
| reliable adjective | /ɹɪˈlaɪəbl̩/ | Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy |
| ultra noun | /ˈʌltɹə/ | A political extremist, in particular |
| wealthy adjective | /ˈwɛl.θi/ | Possessing financial wealth; rich. |
| nationwide adjective | /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/ | Extending throughout an entire nation. |
| meantime noun | /ˈmiːntaɪm/ | The time spent waiting for another event; time in between. |
| luckily adverb | /ˈlʌk.ɪ.li/ | In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately. |
| provisional adjective | /pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/ | Temporary, but with the intention of eventually becoming permanent or being replaced by a permanent equivalent. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. | |
| call out verb | To specify, especially in detail. | |
| close down verb | /kləʊzˈdaʊn/ | To stop trading as a business. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| knock down verb | To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls. | |
| mess up verb | To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- I mean, they're literally splitting hairs now.
- Can you find your birth certificate today?
- I've traveled a lot for a million bucks.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has not been called · has reported · they've done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | was killed · is still unresolved · has not been called |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | guy that is · friend who voted |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 42 contractions and reduced forms, such as they're, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: suppression /səˈpɹɛʃən/, nationwide /ˌneɪ.ʃənˈwaɪd/, provisional /pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/, commissioner /kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
- Long words — get the stress right: certificate /səˈtɪf.ɪ.kɪt/, provisional /pɹəˈvɪʒənəl/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, commissioner /kəˈmɪ.ʃə.nəɹ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like voter, ballot, poll.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.