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Hi, I'm Dan Premak, host of Axios Recap, and welcome to Axios Election 2020 special coverage.

And I'm Naila Boodoo, host of Axios today.

Our two shows are teaming up for the next 24 hours to bring you answers to the most urgent questions on this very unusual election day.

This is the first of many updates to come.

And right now, what we want to understand is, how's voting going?

I'll be back with you in a few hours. So for now, Dan, take it away.

Thank you, Naila. We are recording this at 2.30 p.m. Eastern Time. And with me is Kristen Clark,

President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under law. So Kristen, obviously, every election,

there's some, you know, small problems here and there, whether it's a federal election or a small,

you know, local election. Overall, though, how is election day going so far this afternoon?

Well, I think the verdict is still out. The phones

have been ringing here. We are running our nationwide election protection program. We've got

42,000 legal volunteers who are working the phones and taking calls and complaints from voters

in every corner of the country.

And, you know, a lot of phone traffic from Pennsylvania, from Florida, from Texas, voters who are trying to figure out where to go and vote.

Voters who are sadly this morning finding sites that opened up late.

And so they've got to make a you know a second

trip back to the polling site some voters who didn't receive their absentee ballots and so are

trying to weigh their last minute options you name it we're kind of dealing with it there are some

problems so that we've encountered that are a bit higher on the

Richter scale. And so, you know, we're rolling up our sleeves and trying to figure out what we

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