Hey everybody it's David Plough. Welcome to Campaign HQ. Well we're almost in August, so the calendar continues to turn.

You know, I want to kind of focus my opening today before we get to our guest on just

voting. So, you know, we've talked about it quite a bit on this podcast and there's some great

journalism happening around this, but just a caution for all of us that just the simple

act of voting is going to maybe determine this election.

You know, I mentioned I think last week, you know, some of these primaries are showing

seven to eight percent of mail-in ballots are being thrown out. I've seen some data suggest amongst

first-time voters which predominantly are younger voters it's over 10 percent.

So people who aren't just familiar and again the rules differ by state you know story about my own

mistake so in the March presidential primary in California my wife and I were

voting around the table and in California you have to sign the envelope that the ballot goes into and I signed my wife's

ballot and she signed mine.

So we had to take those physically into our precinct, which were able to do, so our votes counted.

But if we had sent those in, they might not have counted.

So I guess my message is all of you individually, your friends and family members who are committed to

getting Trump out of office you know just make sure you're talking to them sharing

good content checking with them make sure they're first of all their request is in

there's no reason to wait if you're going to vote by mail and

listen if you want to vote in person and you're not worried about the safety

issues around there you know your votes can account as long as you're

registered so you know in person voting is just fine you know your votes can account you make a mistake on a mail

and it may not count so you know well I don't think we necessarily want to

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