The White House, the Congress, the prospect of change.

The importance of each and every vote.

Protect and to preserve our voting system.

From the ACLU, this is at the polls, a special mini-series on, you guessed it, voting.

I'm Molly McGrath, a voting rights lawyer and organizer, and your host for this series.

You've right to vote of all of our young people.

It belongs to you.

The machinery of democracy should work for everyone, everywhere.

This week, we'll be answering the question, how will the courts influence the 2020

election?

And stay tuned for the end of the episode, where we'll be answering

questions from you, our listeners. By now, if there's one thing we know about the 2020 election,

it's that things aren't, shall we say, normal. Coronavirus concerns have created a blizzard of absentee ballot requests.

Requests for ballots are off the charts because of the COVID safety concerns.

On this podcast, we've been talking about the ways that holding an election during the middle

of a pandemic has presented new challenges for our institutions, the news media and how they might not be able to declare

a winner on election night, how our vote by mail system has put a spotlight on the role of the

post office. Now it's time to talk about our courts and how we're fighting back and what we can do

as voters to stand up to the unprecedented attacks on voting and our legal system.

Mail-in voting, I don't trust the people that are calling for it, demanding it. It lends itself

to corruption. In the mass mail-in system that there is fraud. This methodology, which, as a matter of

logic, is very open to fraud and coercion, is reckless and dangerous.

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