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Today, Explained

Everything that could go wrong with the November election

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

A worsening pandemic. A poll worker shortage. A hobbled postal service. Russian hacking. Donald Trump. Vox’s Ella Nilsen explains the many obstacles facing the United States as Election Day nears. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

20, 20 explain.

0:04.1

Hey there, it's today explained.

0:07.2

I'm Sean Ramos for a minute's August.

0:09.2

Welcome to August, y'all.

0:10.4

We're marking the passage of time here in the District of Columbia with a tropical storm.

0:15.0

How about you?

0:16.0

How do you mark the passage of time?

0:17.3

Another way to do it is to calculate how close the election is.

0:22.0

And it's getting much closer.

0:23.1

As of today, it's just 90 days away.

0:26.6

But with all the mail-in voting that needs to happen, this thing's actually going to kick

0:30.2

off much sooner than that.

0:32.2

A presidential election during a worsening pandemic is of course no small undertaking.

0:38.8

So today, we're going to break down what it will take to get the United States ready.

0:44.5

But before we can even get out the gate, the president is, of course, making this harder.

0:50.1

Mail-in voting ballots.

0:52.4

You're asking for fraud.

0:54.1

People steal them out of mailboxes.

0:56.3

They'll print them and then they sign them and they give them in.

0:59.2

The people don't even know where they're double counted.

1:02.0

And they're in all the mailboxes.

1:03.8

And kids go and they raid the mailboxes and they hand them to people that are signing

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