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Notes from America with Kai Wright

How to Steal an Election

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Reporter Christopher Werth brings us a story from Wisconsin, a key swing state, about the legal efforts to suppress the votes of communities of color and how Milwaukee-based organizers like Melody McCurtis are determined to make sure that every vote is counted. WNYC’s Brigid Bergen joins us to talk about the challenges that New Yorkers are facing to get their vote out amidst uncertain circumstances. Visit vote.nyc (NYC) or vote.org to ensure that you are registered to vote and make a plan. Listen to Brian Lehrer’s special, “America, Are We Ready to Vote in a Pandemic?” here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Kywright and this is the United States of anxiety a show about the unfinished business of our history and its

0:07.3

grip on our future.

0:08.7

We out here getting our young people middle-aged folks and our senior folks making sure they register to vote.

0:14.0

To avoid spreading the coronavirus at crowded polling places, states have adopted mail-in

0:19.1

voting. Absentee ballot envelopes sent to the wrong voters who then go on and sign them.

0:24.4

There's this potential to disenfranchise a lot of voters.

0:27.8

And of course everyone's going to be watching for problems.

0:30.1

In the past, voting by mail has not given a partisan benefit to either party but what it does do is increase turnout

0:37.6

They had things levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this

0:43.6

country again. Tell them to stop trying to disrupt the vote and to get their

0:49.6

hands off of our democracy. There is an ongoing COVID outbreak at the highest

0:59.6

tier of American government and we still don't know its full scope or intensity.

1:04.0

The world is left speculating about the President's own health even as a growing list of Republican

1:08.8

officials and advisors have also tested positive.

1:12.3

In New Jersey, the states urging everyone who attended

1:15.0

the president's fundraiser on Thursday night to quarantine. That's roughly 300

1:19.4

people according to some reports and this is to say nothing of the potential exposure for hundreds of others who have had to work

1:26.8

or share space with all of these rich and powerful people.

1:30.8

And I say all of that to say who knows where we are headed. But one thing is

1:37.2

absolutely clear. We are still holding an election and it is happening in the

1:41.7

middle of a pandemic that plainly remains dangerous.

1:47.0

So rather than speculate about the COVID outbreak at the White House,

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