Just how will Americans cast their votes in November?
Americano
The Spectator
4.0 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be re-elected? What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be discussing all of these things and more, more than once a week, because |
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| 0:52.4 | I'm joined today by Zach Christensen, who is publisher of the Spectators' |
| 0:57.0 | US edition, and we're going to be asking if the 2020 election could end up being postal. |
| 1:03.9 | Now, Zach, with the ongoing pandemic and the ongoing crisis and the ongoing uncertainty |
| 1:10.0 | about what's going to happen the next few months, |
| 1:12.4 | there are growing calls for the election to be held by post. There was some talk of a virtual |
| 1:18.3 | election. I think that's not going to happen now. I think that's been debunked. Correct me if I'm |
| 1:22.8 | wrong. But I think the general feeling now is that there is quite a good case, or certainly among a lot of Democrats, it seems, there's quite a good case for having a postal election. |
| 1:33.1 | How realistic do you think that is? |
| 1:34.9 | Well, I think it's tough. |
| 1:36.5 | I mean, essentially the way that it works in the U.S. is that states manage their own elections. |
| 1:40.5 | And so it would be very tough for the federal government to come in and impose a |
| 1:46.1 | sweeping rule that all, you know, elections have to be done, vote by mail. So each state would |
| 1:51.7 | have to make those decisions individually. Right now, lots of people can vote by mail in most states. |
| 1:57.9 | You know, it's called absentee voting. And so you request a ballot and then |
| 2:02.4 | the ballots mailed to you and then you mail it back in. Right now, though, you have to request it. |
| 2:06.4 | I think the proposal that's being put out by a lot of people is that ballots are automatically |
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