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Speaker 1: What's up.

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Speaker 2: It's way up with Angela Yee and it's about that time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we should always be thinking about what's going

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Speaker 2: on with our politics, especially locally. I want to say,

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Speaker 2: but today we have Tim Hunter here from NYC Votes,

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Speaker 2: New York City Votes.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining.

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Speaker 3: Us, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now talk to me. You look so young.

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Speaker 2: That's funny now to be in the position that you're in.

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Speaker 2: But for people who are watching and listening, what is

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Speaker 2: it exactly that you do with NYC Votes.

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Speaker 3: Well, I serve as NYC Votes, the Press Secretary.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: NYC Votes is initiative of the Campaign Finance Board, which

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Speaker 3: has a robust matching funds program that allows everyday New

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Speaker 3: Yorkers to get their contributions to political candidates matched for

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Speaker 3: program participants. And with our initiative NYC Votes, we're raising

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Speaker 3: awareness about every upcoming election. This one is a really

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Speaker 3: big one because it's our local elections, and I'm excited

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Speaker 3: to get into it with you today.

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Speaker 2: You know, I actually hosted like just a conversation with

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Speaker 2: some of the candidates who are running to be mayor,

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Speaker 2: and it was early on at Brick and so it

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Speaker 2: was really just about you know the arts and what

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Speaker 2: they plan to do to kind of support the arts.

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Speaker 1: So it was an interesting conversation.

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Speaker 2: And we have a lot of people in this field

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Speaker 2: have ranked choice voting. So I want to break down

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Speaker 2: things they talk about a lot is that young people

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Speaker 2: and pay as much attention. What do you find because

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Speaker 2: sometimes you hear things you don't know if that's true

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we see that, you know, a lot

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Speaker 3: think that's something that we're trying to change. We want

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Speaker 3: because you know, your vote is your voice, and especially

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Speaker 3: don't want anyone to set this one out. We have

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Speaker 3: so many New Yorkers that are impacted by our city agencies,

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Speaker 3: also a lot of other races on the ballot. Right,

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Speaker 3: you got comptroller, public advocate. You also have city council

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Speaker 3: and we want young people to also turn out. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's a priority community for us. We know young people

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Speaker 2: So June twenty fourth is the deadline, right that we

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Speaker 3: By June and twenty fourth is election day.

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Speaker 2: But you can also vote early. I mean want to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, skip the line. You know you can vote early.

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Speaker 1: You know, I want to ask you this.

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Speaker 2: But let me do my research ahead of time. What's

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Speaker 3: Oh, we should all take a page on Angelee's book.

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Speaker 3: You know, the voter guide explains exactly who's going to

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Speaker 1: Now, come to NYC votes. You guys are not endorsing anybody.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do not push candidates on our voters. We

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Speaker 2: So wait is now I got to ask you this

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Speaker 2: because there's a debate coming up and we're going to

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Speaker 2: to watch these debates so you can see who you like,

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Speaker 1: I want to say people have been coming to my

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Speaker 2: They have and asking me questions and I have been

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Speaker 2: engaging in those conversations, which is you know, I think

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Speaker 3: And obviously, you know, debates are a great opportunity for

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you ranked choice voting. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: I just want you to break it down on exactly

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Speaker 2: should be making sure that you go one through five.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do all five, but it's better

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Speaker 2: So can you explain what ranked choice voting is and

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Speaker 3: Rank choice voting. This is our second time using rank

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Speaker 3: You know, it was a very you know, I think

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Speaker 2: And sometimes we also torn on I'm not sure who

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Speaker 1: Is this person, this person, or this person.

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Speaker 1: So brackets exactly.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's not just the mayor that we're voting for,

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Speaker 2: And we see also in the race for mayor controllers

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Speaker 3: Yes, so city council will also be on your ballot. Again,

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Speaker 2: What would you say to somebody who's like, I'm not

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Speaker 3: It's true. I think, like you know, New York City

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Speaker 3: if you care about those things, you should watch the debate.

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Speaker 2: And you'all be watching the fake ones on TV. You'll

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Speaker 2: be looking at counselm and Tate. Okay, you'll be watching

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Speaker 2: If you can vote, make sure you're registered right, make

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Speaker 2: And so if anybody convinces you that that's a fact,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't just care about politics when we're watching Power, right,

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Speaker 3: we gotta be we gotta be tapped in right now.

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Speaker 3: So you know, we got to make sure that we're

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Speaker 3: So definitely check that out. It's really good information.

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Speaker 2: All right, good, Well, I appreciate you so much for comment, Tim,

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Speaker 2: And we're going to be together next week.

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Speaker 3: So excited.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited this week on the on Thursday, we'll be watching,

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Speaker 2: So make sure you guys come out and join us.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have a good time. We're gonna have these discussions.

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Speaker 1: Have a goodrum punch for us. Yeah,