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ποΈ 30 June 2025
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0:15.6 | Hi, this is Melissa from Canapolis, North Carolina, and I just stopped by my local farmer's market to purchase some fresh peaches and canalope. This podcast was recorded at 1.19 p.m. on Monday, June 30th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will be enjoying some yummy, fresh local produce. Okay, enjoy the show. |
0:40.8 | I had a peach this morning, but I bet hers is better. |
0:43.7 | I feel like I love peaches, but I'm very intimidated by the mess. I feel like I always end up with just like goop all over my hands. |
0:49.4 | I don't know how to cut a peach. I will admit that at this stage in my life, I just, it doesn't make sense to me. |
0:54.7 | Just you got to bite straight in. Right. Hey there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Dupes |
0:59.2 | Chivaram. I cover the White House. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Jude Jaffe Black. I'm on the |
1:03.5 | power and influence team. And today on the show, an NPR exclusive. The Trump administration has built the first searchable data system that can check |
1:11.8 | whether a person is a U.S. citizen. It's being rolled out now to help states ensure non-citizens |
1:16.6 | don't vote in federal elections. So, Miles, let's start with this. How big of a problem is |
1:21.7 | non-citizen voting in federal elections? We've talked about this a lot over the last year or two, |
1:26.9 | right? It has never been found to be a widespread problem in American elections. We've talked about this a lot over the last year or two, right? It has never been |
1:28.7 | found to be a widespread problem in American elections. And I will say people, states, government |
1:35.0 | entities are devoting more resources than ever to try to find root out this quote unquote problem. |
1:40.7 | And it is still just never been found to be anything but microscopic numbers. |
1:45.0 | But I will say that for the kind of small number of people who are on voter rolls, when |
1:51.1 | election officials do have a question about their citizenship, that has been an issue. |
1:56.0 | Election officials find it pretty tough. |
1:58.3 | It's laborious work. |
1:59.6 | It has traditionally taken a number of different |
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