By the People: How to make sure your vote is counted

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Host Ian Millhiser talks with voting rights lawyer Sophia Lin Lakin and vote-by-mail advocate Amber McReynolds about voting, COVID-19, and what steps you can take to ensure that your vote is counted this election. Relevant resources: Confirm you are registered to vote How to vote at home ACLU’s Voting Rights Project ACLU’s Voter Education Tool Featuring: Sophia Lin Lakin, Deputy Director of the Voting Rights Project at the ACLU Amber McReynolds, CEO of the National Vote at Home Institute Host: Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser), Senior Correspondent, Vox Credits: Producer/Editor: Jackson Bierfeldt Editor: Elbert Ventura Executive Producer: Liz Nelson About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts. Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Since Trevor Noah left the Daily Show, there have been a lot of fill-in hosts.
0:06.0	Like Roy Wood Jr., he's one of the show's correspondence.
0:09.0	And he is not shy about his intentions.
0:12.0	We are all openly saying we want the job.
0:14.0	I don't think there's a single clue.
0:16.0	I'm just being straight up.
0:18.0	I don't think there's a single clue.
0:19.0	So you want the job?
0:20.0	If they ask me that job, I'm taking it.
0:22.0	Okay.
0:23.0	Now I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do with it.
0:25.0	But I take that job.
0:26.0	Roy Wood Jr. on maybe hosting the Daily Show.
0:29.0	Also, how he's preparing to host the White House correspondence dinner.
0:34.0	This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.
0:43.0	Well, first and foremost, follow the instructions in your ballot packet.
0:47.0	So when you're, if you request a mail ballot and I would also say do it early.
0:51.0	If you want to do that, I would sign up today.
0:55.0	I don't know how to gauge my level of worry in this context.
1:02.0	I feel like I'm at a, you know, highest alert constantly these days.
1:10.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:13.0	I'm Matthew Eglace.
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