Whose Vote Counts

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not. With Columbia Journalism Investigations and reporters from the USA TODAY NETWORK, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric and realities around mail-in ballots, and how the pandemic could impact turnout.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:07.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.0	Right now, whose vote counts? The correspondent is Janani Cobb.
0:40.0	They've made it so difficult for people to vote here, just asking too much of people to come out with this virus going on.
0:52.0	It was a major election in the middle of a pandemic.
0:55.0	There's been confusion around what actually is a lot of...
0:58.0	It was difficult to request an absentee ballot.
1:01.0	I didn't even know how to do it.
1:03.0	I didn't know about that option to vote through the absentee learning.
1:07.0	The ballots, they cheat, okay? People cheat. Mail ballots are fraudulent in many cases.
1:13.0	Absentee ballots delayed in the mail.
1:15.0	I request an absentee ballot.
1:17.0	They didn't come in time.
1:18.0	I never came.
1:19.0	So I was forced to go and vote.
1:21.0	One of the five polling stations.
1:24.0	Voters forced to choose between their health and their civic duty.
1:27.0	Those lines are long and Wisconsin, despite the state's safer at home order.
1:31.0	Is unepical?
1:33.0	It was such a putriic decision.
1:35.0	They're going to die because of this.
1:37.0	Claims of voter suppression.
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