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Today, Explained

The Voters

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Election turnout is on track to be the highest in a century. Farmers, essential workers, prisoners, and two ladies named Ruth explain their 2020 presidential pick. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The United States presidential election is now less than a week away.

0:16.2

It might take days to get the results.

0:18.2

It might take a week.

0:19.2

It might take a month.

0:20.0

We don't know.

0:21.0

But it could be over on November 3rd.

0:24.1

And wouldn't that be nice?

0:25.7

We've been talking about this election on the show since February of 2019.

0:31.0

Seriously, I looked it up recently.

0:33.5

We've come at it from any number of angles.

0:35.6

But one thing we haven't done a ton of is just hear how people plan to vote.

0:41.5

Who people plan to vote for?

0:44.5

So today, we're going to do that.

0:46.8

We're going to hear from farmers, from frontline workers.

0:49.9

We're going to hear from political organizers and from a few voters who are named Ruth.

0:55.5

So let's kick things off with someone who's voting for the very first time.

1:00.7

Daniel Simeon got here, senior, 48 years old in Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, Maine.

1:09.3

I've already voted this year.

1:10.7

There's a Wednesday morning I got up out of bed, had breakfast, waited around, watched the

1:16.1

news, and about 9.30, 10 o'clock, the officer called my name.

1:22.7

So I went up to the desk and I got my letter, which said official ballot and close.

1:27.8

So I took it, sat down on my bunk, and I filled out my ballot, signed it, put it back

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