Everything that can go wrong in November

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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November's election is about to be a perfect storm — that we can all see coming. Garrett M. Graff digs into his POLITICO magazine cover story with Scott Bland about the voting issues that have tripped up primaries in 2020 so far, and why November won't look like any election we've seen before.Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.Garrett M. Graff is a contributor to POLITICO magazine. Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the fall of 1991, the Andrea Gale left Gloucester, Massachusetts and headed for the fishing
0:10.0	grounds of the North Atlantic.
0:25.0	Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history.
0:29.9	Most people when they say perfect storm get the metaphor wrong.
0:31.3	Mayday, mayday. get the metaphor wrong. May day.
0:34.0	They describe a perfect storm as something that is a surprise event,
0:41.0	totally unforeseeable that comes out of nowhere. But if you actually read
0:46.3	Sebastian Younger's book The Perfect Storm, that's not what that Atlantic gale was all about.
0:54.2	It was actually a very well forecast storm,
0:58.4	totally predicted, easily foreseeable.
1:02.2	The warnings were simply ignored. This fall I think we're shaping up for the perfect storm election.
1:17.0	I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election.
1:21.0	I really do.
1:22.0	He's talking in July about November's rigged election.
1:25.5	You guess what's going to happen?
1:28.0	Today on Nurdcast, we have a cheery task in front of us.
1:30.8	We're going to go through everything that's gone wrong with voting
1:33.6	so far this year and it's a long list.
1:36.6	2020 politics or anything but typical. There was the Iowa Caucus debacle in
1:41.8	February. A major coding issue with a mobile a
1:43.0	Caucous debacle in February.
1:45.0	The long lines plaguing
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