Welcome to the beat, I'm Mari Melber. There are 42 days to election day, and the campaigns are making the usual push for people to vote and vote early if they can.

Make a plan to vote early.

Do not boo. Vote.

I don't love that this country has gone from election day to election season.

Use early voting. Use mail-in voting on election day.

You're looking at a registered independent who's proud to vote again and again and again because

I'm an American and that's what Americans do.

Early voting has already started in some states.

The election is basically here.

It's here.

Candidates ask people to vote because that's the whole purpose of a campaign.

Win more votes.

And that has usually meant motivating people for election day, which is why we hear so much

about voting occurring on a single day.

I like the part when you see you don't go to school on election days.

The candidates and the voters cast their ballots.

81 million voted four years ago.

The population has grown since then,

and more than 81 million ought to vote this time.

Polls are open now by tonight after the polls close we will know who our

41st president will be.

The emphasis there is on election day. But that

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