Hey, everybody. I'm Ashley C. Ford, and I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.

And in our new miniseries, we're talking about voter fraud. For years now, former President Donald Trump has made it a key talking point despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud.

But what impact do claims like these have on ordinary voters?

People like Olivia Coley Pearson, a civil servant in Douglas, Georgia, who was arrested for voter

fraud because she showed a first-time voter how the voting machines worked.

Hear how she fought back on the latest episode of Into the Mix.

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It's been almost two weeks since the presidential election. The outcome was not what I wanted, but I cannot say that it was unexpected.

If anything surprised me, it was how definitive the Trump victory was.

And if anyone says that there's a simple and obvious explanation, I would suggest not listening

to them anymore. There isn't a reason for this. There are many reasons. And we just

don't know enough right now to parse it out in a satisfying way. But that doesn't mean that we

have no idea what just happened. We know plenty. The road to this result has been paved for several years,

and regardless of who you voted for or what your politics are,

I think we all have a duty to read the political room as best we can.

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