'If You Can Keep It': The Matter Of Mail-In Voting

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

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It's just not one election that picks the president. It's 51. Every state and Washington D.C. has its own rules and deadlines for voting. And in most states, early voting is already underway.

More than 4 in 10 voters cast their ballots by mail in 2020. That's according to an analysis from MIT's Election Data and Science Lab.

Nearly 4 million mail-in ballots have already been cast in this election. That's only a fraction of the more than 53 million voters have requested so far – about a quarter of all expected voters. And the requests are split evenly between political parties so far. That's according to The New York Times.

We discuss the role mail-in ballots could play in determining the outcome of the election.

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0:24.0	You know, it's not just one election that picks the US president. It's 51. Every
0:37.6	state and Washington DC has its own rules and deadlines for voting and in most
0:42.4	states early voting is already underway.
0:45.0	Today for the latest installment of our weekly election series if you can keep it.
0:50.0	We're talking about mail-in voting.
0:52.0	More than 62 million people voted by mail in
0:56.2	2020. That's four out of every 10 voters nationwide according to an analysis by
1:01.7	MIT's election data and science lab.
1:04.8	Nearly 4 million mail-in ballots have already been cast in this election.
1:09.6	That's only a fraction of the more than 53 million ballots voters have requested as of today
1:14.8	about a quarter of expected voters and so far according to the New York Times the
1:19.5	requests are evenly split between the political parties.
1:23.0	So what role could mail-in ballots play in determining the outcome of the election this year?
1:28.6	And with the postal service under, and with the postal system under strain, smoothly will mail in voting go and how
1:35.1	vulnerable is it to disinformation attacks. I'm Todd's Williken for Jen White and
1:39.3	you're listening to the 1A podcast where we get to the heart of the story. We'll get into all that and
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