Two Million Americans Have Already Voted

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Early voting is way up in 2020. But conspiracy theories spread by the president and protests at polling places have spooked some voters, and changed how some plan to cast their ballots.

Life Kit: How To Cast Your Ballot

This episode: political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, voting correspondent Pam Fessler, and voting reporter Miles Parks.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Corey.
0:02.0	So I took a vacation to New Zealand back in January.
0:05.5	The plan was to rent a camper van and travel around the country.
0:09.0	But guess what?
0:10.0	I'm still here, and I'm still living in the camper van.
0:14.0	This podcast was recorded that.
0:16.0	October 1st at 207 PM.
0:19.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:21.5	Wish me luck as I try to figure out how to receive and submit my absentee ballot.
0:25.5	I'm speechless.
0:30.5	That sounds like a vacation that more from great to terrifying real quick.
0:34.5	Good luck.
0:35.5	Hey there, it is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:38.5	I am Danielle Kurtzleben, I cover politics.
0:41.5	I'm Miles Parks and I cover voting.
0:43.5	I'm Pam Fessler and I also cover voting.
0:45.5	And our listeners may have gathered from the fact we have Miles and Pam here.
0:49.5	We are talking voting today.
0:51.5	The election day is technically more than a month away.
0:55.5	32 days and 10-ish hours, but who's counting?
0:59.5	But more than 2 million Americans have already cast their ballots.
1:03.5	So election day or no, people are getting it done.
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