'If You Can Keep It': Election Security In 2024

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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At 1A, when it comes to election coverage, we focus on the stakes, not the chatter.

And nothing could be more high-stakes than the country's ability to conduct elections safely and with integrity.

Harassment and the threat of violence are causing a high attrition rate among the nation's election workforces. But there are still folks out there preparing to meet these threats, both physical and virtual.

We discuss how election workers are being protected.

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0:00.0	On Wait Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, we have very important things.
0:05.8	Here's U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
0:08.2	We are also reliably informed that among your enthusiasmms in addition to a macroeconomic policy is mobile
0:16.0	games.
0:17.0	There is some truth in that.
0:19.0	There's some truth in that.
0:19.4	Join us for the NPR podcast that considers all the other things.
0:22.8	That's wait, wait, don't tell me.
0:24.1	You're listening to the One A Podcast. I'm Todd's Wellick and it's time for
0:36.7	another installment of if you can keep it. This is our weekly series where we leave
0:41.7	the horse race to the side for 2024.
0:44.4	Instead we focus on the stakes of this election for people, for the country,
0:48.5	and for our democracy. Today's focus, physical and virtual security at the polls.
0:54.4	Here's Attorney General Merrick Garland last Monday.
0:57.4	We have seen a dangerous increase in violent threats against public servants,
1:02.2	the ones who administer our elections. Those
1:05.1	threats endanger our democracy itself. Harassment and threats of violence are
1:10.5	causing election workers to quit their jobs.
1:13.2	In 2022, the most recent year with complete data,
1:16.6	the turnover rate for election workers was close to 40%.
1:19.8	That's compared to 28% in 2004. And that's according to research from UCLA and the
1:25.4	bipartisan policy center and 40% of election workers say they've experienced
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