The Evils of Election Incompetence

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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On the Gist, New York's elections are not unlike Georgia's. In the interview, our resident vexillologist Ted Kaye is back to talk about the latest in flag news. He fills Mike in on what's happening in Mississippi as they try to swiftly get a new flag design added to the ballot in November, and the recent proliferation of the 'thin blue line' American flag. Kaye's book is Good Flag, Bad Flag. In the spiel, Trump's mispronunciations. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following program may contain explicit language.
0:03.2	B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.
0:06.4	It's Thursday, August 6, 2020,
0:09.3	who slated to just dime Mike Pesca.
0:11.9	The results of the New York primary are finally in.
0:15.1	Took place in June.
0:16.6	Now it's August, Carol Amelone,
0:18.6	between the Democratic knot for her congressional seat,
0:21.2	and as the Councilman named Ritchie Torres,
0:23.5	will you very likely be going to Congress
0:26.0	having gotten a Democratic nominee in his district.
0:28.4	Now I bring up these results because New York's elections
0:31.0	were a shambles, voting by Mal didn't really work.
0:34.6	Didn't work well, at least.
0:35.8	So many ballots were tossed out
0:37.7	that people must have been disenfranchised.
0:40.2	They six week weight is unacceptable.
0:43.0	And if those two districts were in heavily Democrat,
0:45.4	it would have put the winners at a significant disadvantage
0:47.9	in the general.
0:49.3	Not all election delays and blunders
0:52.5	are motivated by nefarious intent.
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