First-Timers: Out of Prison and Finally Able to Vote

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Winning November’s presidential election will likely mean turning out a whole host of people who have never voted before. In our new series, First-Timers, we speak with voters from around the country and across the political spectrum to ask them what’s bringing them to the ballot box for the first time. Guest: Dewayne Comer, a formerly incarcerated first-time voter from Syracuse, New York. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.9	I'm wondering if you can describe to me what election day is going to look like for you.
0:32.2	Like are you going to go to the polls on election day?
0:34.4	Oh, I can.
0:35.4	First time voting, you think I'm going to let him get away that easy?
0:38.2	I'm going to vote.
0:41.3	It's pretty hard to miss the joy in Duane Comer's voice when you talked to him about the
0:45.7	election.
0:47.2	This is the first year Duane is going to be able to cast a ballot.
0:50.0	He says, if he had his way, he'd drive a Cadillac to the polls.
0:54.9	You know what I'm actually going to do?
0:55.9	I'm going to record it on my phone because this is really going to be nice.
0:59.3	Just roll up.
1:00.3	Yes.
1:01.3	Roll up, going to do the vote, have someone who's there, just fill me doing this.
1:08.5	Because it's to me, it's monumental.
1:12.3	If I told like 18-year-old you that you were this hyped for voting, would he have believed
1:18.6	you?
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