Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Miles Parks and I cover Voting.

And Miles, you have a special guest here with us today. Do you want to introduce our

friend?

Yeah, absolutely. We have Pam Fessler with us today who also covers Voting for NPR.

Hey Pam.

And I am very happy to be here. Hi. How you doing?

Well, you know, we're just going to have the Pam Tam confusion, but other than that,

everything will be fine.

Exactly.

Well, it's Memorial Day, also known as another day at home.

Just staring wistfully into the distance.

There you go. So we have you both here today because the coronavirus pandemic has made

voting more interesting or it's, it's certainly made the issues around voting that have been

brewing for a while. It's thrown them into stark relief.

And I'm hoping that you can help put some of these headlines that we've seen into context.

In particular, President Trump has been making a lot of noise lately about voting by mail,

raising concerns, though without any evidence about potential fraud.

And last week, NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist had a poll that found that half of people would

like to vote by mail in November if that's an option. Of course, that's because of coronavirus

fears in part.

Yeah, that's right. I mean, we are having a major, major revision in the way we vote in

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