Are We Having a Healthy Election?
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this Election Day, we are checking in on how healthy the election actually is. Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School and Charles Stewart III of MIT together run the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project. Zahavah Levine and Chelsey Davidson manage the project on the Stanford side. Together, they have supervised a collection of students who have produced 32 articles for Lawfare on election administration as part of the project. Benjamin Wittes sat down with all four of them to discuss how the election is actually going, what the rules of mail-in voting are, how litigation has affected the conduct of the vote, if we have enough poll workers and what results we can expect this evening.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | We came into this election with real belief on one side or the other actually that the |
| 0:38.9 | election would be rigged in one way or the other. |
| 0:42.4 | And the issues with male balloting and the claims of the president since then, the tweeting |
| 0:46.5 | etc has all fanned those flames. |
| 0:49.2 | Now we may be in a situation where on election night if the president claims victory that |
| 0:55.1 | you are going to see the social media companies flex their muscle in a way that will just |
| 1:00.0 | provoke some of the acro-mode we've seen in the last few weeks. |
| 1:03.7 | Because they all have policies now to address false claims of victory even from candidates |
| 1:09.7 | where they will either demote it, take it down or put a filter over these kinds of false |
| 1:14.8 | claims of victory. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast November 3rd, that's election day |
| 1:22.4 | 2020. |
| 1:24.4 | As I say, it is election day and we have a shockingly good news story for you today on the |
| 1:31.1 | LawFair podcast. |
| 1:33.3 | Nate Persily of Stanford Law School and Charles Stewart of MIT together run the MIT Stanford |
| 1:40.9 | Healthy Elections Project, Zahavalevian and Chelsea Davidson manage the project on the |
| 1:48.2 | Stanford side. |
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