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How We're Voting
Myrna Pérez, director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program, and Ari Berman, senior reporter at Mother Jones, covering voting rights and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, talk about how the pandemic is affecting pre-existing voting problems and creating others, and take calls from listeners around the country about the voting situation in their state.
This segment originally aired on the national program America, Are We Ready? on Tuesday, September 22, 2020