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Election 2020: Your Voting Questions Answered

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest challenges facing the election this year is simply the process. For the first time ever, all California voters will receive a ballot in the mail. Some voters are concerned their vote may not be counted. On top of that, voters are hungry for trustworthy information about candidates and issues. We take your questions about voting this year with Kim Alexander, president and founder of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We're joined now by Kim Alexander, founder and CEO of the

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Nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, here to answer your questions about voting this year.

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The process is different, especially if you plan to vote in person, since every registered voter

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is being sent a mail-in ballot. So if you're confused or uncertain about what to do this year,

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given your situation, you can call 866-733-6786. Again, 8667-73786. You can also get in touch on Twitter or Facebook

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at KQED Forum or you can email your questions to forum at KQED.org. Kim Alexander, welcome back

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to forum. Hi, Mina. Thank you. Thanks so much for talking with us. So one of the things that I wanted to

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just hit on right away is I'm hearing more and more people say that they would prefer to vote in

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person. What do people know, what do people need to know about what will be different this year

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if they go to vote in person? Well, first of all, the good news is that all voters have

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lots of options. So you can cast a vote by mail ballot or you can go vote in person or I think

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the best of both worlds is a little bit of both to fill out your vote by mail ballot at home and take

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it in person to a voting ballot drop box or a voting location or your county election office. So you have all those

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