Election Workers Voice Concerns, Influencers In Springfield, Sickle Cell Treatments

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

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Former President Donald Trump tried to overturn the election results and slander election workers in 2020. Less than two months before this year's election, officials are preparing for new conspiracy theories. Online influencers are trying to find evidence of debunked events in Springfield, Ohio, and many people with sickle cell disease are slow to sign up for new genetic treatments.

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0:00.0	Early voting has started for this year's presidential election.
0:06.2	And after 2020 when Donald Trump tried to overturn the results and slander election workers,
0:11.3	officials are getting ready for new conspiracy theories.
0:14.1	I'm Steve Insky with Leela Foddle, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:19.2	Former President Trump picked up a false story off the internet and ever since
0:25.0	influencers have been trying to find evidence of imaginary events in Springfield, Ohio.
0:30.0	I have seen a lot of those independent journalists just walking around with their phone.
0:36.0	Okay, what are they finding?
0:38.0	And there are now genetic treatments for people living with sickle cell disease, but some people have been slow to opt in. I'm really
0:46.1	nervous about how that will affect fertility. Stay with us we'll give you the news
0:51.5	you need to start your day.
0:53.0	Voting has begun in the 2024 general election.
1:05.0	States are starting to send out absentee ballots and early in-person voting starts today, in Virginia and Minnesota.
1:12.0	This is the first presidential election since
1:14.5	Donald Trump's efforts in 2020 to overturn his defeat. Part of that effort
1:19.1	included demonizing election administrators and other acts and now election officials are
1:24.7	supposed to do their jobs in a presidential race again.
1:27.6	NPR's Miles Parks covers voting and he joins us now from the swing state of
1:32.0	Michigan.
1:32.6	Hey Miles.
1:33.5	Hey, Lailo.
1:34.4	So you were at a media briefing
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