It isn't a crisis only when it's in Iowa.

It's a crisis when it's in any city, county, around the country.

And it's a problem that's far too pervasive and too many poor communities of color.

Like fine wine, you know, a good election count takes time.

Maybe you'll have to wait a day or two.

Introduce transparency and accountability into these sort of algorithms of exploitation and manipulation, which is for their bottom line, it's bad for democracy.

It's not actually that difficult to find any number of opportunities to get involved if what you're interested in is

helping people exercise the most fundamental right that we have.

Hi, and welcome to Amicus and the fifth and final part of our election meltdown series.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick, and this past

Wednesday night, I had the extreme honor and privilege of being joined on stage by a voting rights

and election integrity dream team. Former Florida gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum,

MacArthur, Genius Fellow, Danielle Citron, the ACLU's Dale Ho, and of course, Rick Hassan.

Slate Plus members are going to have access to an extended director's cut of this live show.

If you're not a Slate Plus member yet, be sure to check it out at slate.com slash amicus plus.

And I want to take a minute to thank Slate Plus members because their support is actually the reason we were able to bring you this special series in the first place.

We promised our live show would offer solutions.

Spoiler alert, there are no short-term quick fixes, but you are going to hear a lot about things we can all do, things that shore up public

faith and confidence in our elections, and help us avoid the election meltdown this whole

series has been sounding the alarm about. One more thing, there's a bit of a recurring visual

joke that goes throughout the show. So there was this rather lovely little rug on the set, and it became the place where we

metaphorically threw all of our worries and concerns and nightmare scenarios.

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