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From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdat.

I'm Greta Johnson and I am certain that I do not need to tell you that election week is almost here.

Maybe you, like me, have decided to mute every single human on Twitter who is giving you a countdown of how many days there are left.

Maybe you're also getting a whole bunch of texts and calls.

Maybe you are kind of super over it.

Well, while we are on the subject, I do think it's worthwhile to

zoom out for a second and recognize the fact that voting in America is actually

really weird. Like not a lot of us do it and a lot of elections end up

coming down to the people living in just a handful of states which means it

might be worthwhile to think about how we actually got here, and, you know, why we have the Electoral College.

And what does it matter if people vote anyways?

Here to guide us through these questions and more is Aaron Geiger Smith.

She's a journalist who recently wrote the book

Thank you for voting the maddening

enlightening inspiring truth about voting in America. It's a book that is

super nonpartisan but pretty explicitly pro voting.

Aaron, hi.

Hi, thanks for having me.

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