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Advisory Opinions

Voting in a Pandemic

Advisory Opinions

The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, joins David and Sarah to discuss how you pull off an election during a pandemic. Rachel makes the case for why states need to start thinking about how coronavirus may impact November now, and expand absentee voting and drive-thru voting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You ready?

0:02.0

I was born ready.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Advisory Opinions Podcast. This is David French with Sarah Isger.

0:24.0

And we have a guest for you today. As I'm going to say, as you'll hear me say many times,

0:30.0

over the course of this podcast, this is a guest that I know and Sarah doesn't know, even though I thought Sarah knew everybody.

0:38.0

But you're going to really, really appreciate this guest Rachel Kleinfeld,

0:44.0

an introducer in just a second. Sarah, she knew her stuff.

0:50.0

I mean, you told me, you sent me her article and I was like, yeah, this is the perfect topic to talk about,

0:58.0

non-imperson voting heading into November, especially on the heels of Wisconsin.

1:02.0

But I thought we were going to have sort of a, you know, male voting good, in-person voting bad in the age of pandemic.

1:09.0

And instead, I just feel like I experienced a PhD level class in voting behaviors.

1:17.0

And she's just so, so knowledgeable. Also, I love that she's in New Mexico by way of Alaska.

1:25.0

So we get this really western perspective and feel. And she's coming to us from this, a dobe house, which looks beautiful.

1:33.0

And she, I mean, spoiler alert for the end. She's cooking with green chili.

1:39.0

Well, and not to have any intradispatrivalry. But so Jonah and his remnant podcast had Lyman stone on.

1:48.0

And I would urge you to listen to all of that podcast. It was absolutely phenomenal.

1:53.0

This podcast is every bit as good as the Lyman stone podcast.

1:59.0

But on a different topic, male in voting and the integrity election in 2020 in November.

2:05.0

And it was fantastic. So without further ado, let's hear from Rachel.

2:13.0

So as listeners know, Sarah knows everybody. But I know some people too.

2:21.0

And one of the people I know is my friend Rachel Kleinfeld, who's the senior fellow in the democracy conflict and governance program at the Carnegie endowment.

2:29.0

A member of the bipartisan national task force on election crisis. More importantly, a person I've gotten to know.

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