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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Deepa Shivaram. I cover the White House. And today on the show we want to bring you a

conversation we had in September about how to run an election. People have

already started voting across the country for November's election and we looked into the mechanics of how all of that is possible.

I talked with Miles Parks and Hansi Lo Wong

who cover voting for NPR, and I started by asking Miles

what we know about how and when people are voting.

Yeah, it's always important at the top of these to say, like this is different state by state and

county by county, right?

But generally, I think what's really interesting when I talked to election officials, is that the narrative around voting has really focused the last few years on restrictions.

After 2020 and all the expansions we saw for the COVID pandemic, a number of states did restrict and roll back some of those voting

expansions which kind of gave the vibe that voting was going to be harder in 2024.

But then when you actually look at the landscape of the U.S. I

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