30 Election Day fun facts
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's been a long road to this election day, and our incredible digital team has |
| 0:05.1 | been covering all aspects of it, including a countdown of facts over the last 30 days from |
| 0:10.7 | Lisa Desjardin and Dima Zane. |
| 0:13.1 | Take a look. |
| 0:14.1 | All right, the number 30. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's talk about the key swing state of Georgia, very key this year. |
| 0:19.3 | Four years ago, Joe Biden won, but Donald Trump |
| 0:22.9 | won every single county except for 30. But those 30 counties that Joe Biden won, they had more |
| 0:29.3 | people in them, and that's why he won the state of Georgia. Republicans have control of both chambers |
| 0:34.3 | in 29 state legislatures. Let's talk about money. |
| 0:38.3 | Elections are not free to run, but in 28 states, outside groups, nonprofits, charities, |
| 0:44.3 | they're banned from donating any money to help run the election. |
| 0:48.3 | The youngest member of Congress, Representative Max Frost, of Florida, is 27 years old. |
| 0:53.3 | New York has 26 congressional districts. |
| 0:56.0 | Why does that matter? |
| 0:57.0 | Because Democrats hope to flip at least four of them |
| 1:00.0 | and use that to take over the House of Representatives. |
| 1:03.0 | Just 25 counties in the country voted for the winner |
| 1:08.0 | in the last three presidential elections. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, this one's a little nerdy. |
| 1:11.6 | 24 states share voter information with each other in a system called Eric. |
| 1:15.6 | The idea is to block illegal voters, people who try and vote twice. |
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