Mobilizing the Election Heroes with Bob Brandon

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined once again by Bob Brandon, the President & CEO of the Fair Elections Center, a national, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization whose mission is to use litigation and advocacy to remove barriers to registration and voting. They discuss their outlook of the 2022 midterms now that election day is less than three weeks away, voter intimidation and how its expected to be deployed by the enemies of democracy, and how “election heroes” are mobilizing for the midterms in the face of autocratic threats. To learn more about the work of the Fair Elections Center, visit FairElectionsCenter.org. Plus, visit WorkElections.org to do your part to “Power the Polls” and become a poll worker, a.k.a election hero, on election day. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Reed.
0:01.0	Before we get started, I want to ask you two favors.
0:03.6	One, go to powerthepoles.org and sign up to be an elections worker in your area.
0:11.4	Already 150,000 of your fellow Americans have signed up to do this, but we need help
0:16.6	in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, Florida, and other key states.
0:23.1	Next, voting has begun in a lot of places.
0:26.8	King, if you're not sure whether or not it's begun in your state, go to vote.org and determine
0:32.3	whether or not you can already cast your ballot early, whether or not you should be expecting
0:36.5	an absentee ballot.
0:37.8	And certainly, if you have gotten that absentee ballot, vote it and turn it in ASAP.
0:42.6	We can do this three weeks to go.
0:44.8	Let's get it done.
0:46.2	And now on with the show.
0:56.0	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project.
0:57.9	I'm your host, Reed Gailan.
0:59.9	Today, I'm once again joined by Bob Brandon, president and CEO of the Fair Elections Center,
1:05.1	a national nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization whose mission is to use
1:10.3	litigation and advocacy to remove barriers to registration and voting.
1:14.7	Bob, welcome back.
1:16.2	Thanks, Reed.
1:17.2	I'm glad to be here.
1:18.4	So Bob, as we're recording this three weeks from Election Day, here we are.
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