From the ACLU, this is at Liberty.

But I'm not Emerson Sykes.

My name is Kendall Seasmeyer and I'm the producer of this podcast.

I'm taking the reins for this episode as Emerson is off.

A quick note to listeners.

Today's episode was recorded outside of our office due to our mandatory work from home policy during the unfolding coronavirus pandemic.

We take seriously the safety of our staff and the guests on our podcast. Please excuse any change in audio quality.

With the recent spread of COVID-19 in the United States, we now face a public health emergency, unlike any we've seen in our work at the ACLU.

Across the country, schools are closed, employees are adapting to new work-from-home policies, and some state and local officials have even implemented shelter-in-place orders.

At the ACLU, we work with a variety of vulnerable populations. COVID-19 brings new concerns to our

daily fight to protect civil rights and liberties. For this episode, I spoke with three of our

colleagues who work on voting rights, immigration, and prison reform

to learn about how COVID-19 is affecting their work.

First, I spoke with D.L. Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project,

to learn about how COVID-19 is complicating the voting process and what he and his team are doing to make sure that we can

all exercise our right to vote.

Dale, what are you most concerned about when it comes to protecting the right to vote during

the COVID-19 outbreak?

I'm most concerned that the traditional way that most people have voted in the past in person on election day

is going to be difficult or not viable for a lot of people.

We've already seen pretty significant disruptions of the primary elections,

relocating polling locations away from assisted living facilities where polling places frequently

...