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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A partisan election board in Georgia has been trying to change the rules around voting and election certification. It's giving 2020. In the first episode of our battleground state series, we go to Georgia to learn how election guardrails will protect the vote. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members A billboard sponsored by the Congressional Integrity Project in Atlanta. Photo by Derek White/Getty Images for Congressional Integrity Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The 2020 election was always going to be a weird one. Trump v. Biden, America v COVID.
0:06.0	It was a tight race and Donald Trump's divisive presidency gave the Democratic Party a chance to flip some states that had been voting Republican for years.
0:14.0	But the Trump campaign lied and said that the Democrats stole Arizona and Michigan
0:19.2	and North Carolina and others and soon came the threats to election workers.
0:24.0	We're gonna fucking hang you a traitor.
0:25.8	I will take a bullet to your fucking head if you
0:29.2	were my rights anymore.
0:31.6	Maybe the most contentious fight was over Georgia.
0:34.0	Donald Trump was caught on tape asking the Secretary of State to find him some
0:41.6	votes. I think it's pretty clear that we won.
0:45.6	And Rudy Giuliani engaged in so much defamation
0:48.5	that he currently owes $148 million
0:51.1	to two Georgia election workers. Now it's 2024 and we're doing it all again. Are we
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