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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to downplay this and say I'm a

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Speaker 2: little excited to have some good old political talk in

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Speaker 2: this good old political season with somebody who knows what

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Speaker 2: they're talking about. And it's excited to get people out

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Speaker 2: and vote, ladies and gentlemen, voters and voters. Introducing Adrianne Shopshire,

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Speaker 2: the executive director of B Pack.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Adrian, how are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I am doing well, Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Are you like the rest of us, We're a little

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Speaker 2: more excited than maybe we were in uh let's say

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Speaker 2: early August.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, if I could quote Michelle Obama at the DNC,

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Speaker 4: hope is making a comeback.

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Speaker 3: So yes it is. And let's talk about you and

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Speaker 3: your place in this process.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about b packs because I like to have

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Speaker 2: conversations too on a very basic level. So everybody understands

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Speaker 2: the language. So b pack Black Progressives correct.

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Speaker 4: Black Coggre'sive Action Coalition.

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Speaker 2: Action Coalition, and you guys are a pack correct in

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Speaker 2: the formal sense of the word pack.

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Speaker 4: So there are two different organizations that work together. So

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Speaker 4: b pack is our nonpartisan entity. We make sure that

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Speaker 4: people do the education with folks to make sure that

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Speaker 4: they understand how to vote, where to vote, understand the issues.

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Speaker 4: We talk about what's at stake with folks. Black pack

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Speaker 4: is the actual pack, and so that work is much

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Speaker 4: more partisan. We're talking about candidates. We're making sure that people,

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Speaker 4: you know, understand not just what's at stake, but how

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Speaker 4: dangerous some candidates might be versus others.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just thinking to myself, Okay, so I'm

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Speaker 2: going to try to make this really an easy conversation

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Speaker 2: for you to stay nonpartisan. However, this election kind of

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Speaker 2: makes it a little hard. But I'm sure you understand

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Speaker 2: that as.

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Speaker 4: What do I do?

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about a voting plan. What is it?

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Speaker 3: What should it look like in the season.

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Speaker 4: Well, so we know that the last few elections that

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Speaker 4: we have had in this country have been chaos, both

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Speaker 4: leading into them and in twenty twenty coming out right,

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Speaker 4: and so what we always encourage people to do is to,

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Speaker 4: like you make a plan for doing anything else that

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Speaker 4: you put a plan together for how you're going to

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Speaker 4: get your vote cast, and then figure out if there's

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Speaker 4: something you need to do to make sure that your

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Speaker 4: vote actually gets counted. If you end up in that category.

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Speaker 4: So what we say to people, particularly right now because

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Speaker 4: election laws have been changing in states, right we know

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Speaker 4: there's been a lot of attempts to suppress the vote,

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Speaker 4: and particularly suppress the black vote. And we know that

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Speaker 4: right now in states across the country, there's lots of

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Speaker 4: shenanigans going on where people are actually kicking us off

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Speaker 4: the rolls. So some folks are you going on randomly

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Speaker 4: to just check and make sure their voter registration status

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Speaker 4: is still intact and finding out that they've been removed

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Speaker 4: from the role.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so let's start there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, how do we make sure that our registration is intact?

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Speaker 2: And is that state by state or is that a

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Speaker 2: general answer?

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Speaker 4: It is state by state. But BPAC has a toolkit.

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Speaker 4: It's Bpacdemocracytoolkit dot Com. That's b as in boy P

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Speaker 4: as in paul Ac, Bpacdemocracytoolkit dot Com. And you can

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Speaker 4: go there and it will guide you through some steps

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Speaker 4: to be able to check your status. So you can

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Speaker 4: check your registration status. You can get registered if you

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Speaker 4: need to. So these are all the steps when you're

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Speaker 4: building a plan. Check your registration status, if make sure

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Speaker 4: you're registered, register if you need to register, find out

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Speaker 4: where your polling place is. Decide if you want to vote,

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Speaker 4: if you are allowed, if you want to vote by

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Speaker 4: mail or get an absentee ballot, then apply for that

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Speaker 4: appsentee ballot so you make sure that it comes to

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Speaker 4: your house. We encourage people to vote by mail or

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Speaker 4: vote by apps and tee if it's available to them,

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Speaker 4: because it just gets voting out of the way, right, Okay,

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Speaker 4: So can I just say to you, I was just

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Speaker 3: We were like, oh, we should, we should really go

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Speaker 2: But we're a little what's the word worried conspiracy theory

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Speaker 2: showing up on the day to the machine will will

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Speaker 2: the last few years, and what we've been told is

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Speaker 2: can you make us more comfortable with that action?

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Speaker 4: So your ballot is going to get counted, whether you

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Speaker 4: send it in the mail or whether you show up

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Speaker 4: an early vote in person, or you show up on

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Speaker 4: election day and you can track your ballot. Right, So

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Speaker 4: you can track your ballot make sure that it got there. Right.

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Speaker 4: In most states, you should be getting sent a notification

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Speaker 4: saying that they got your ballot. But if you didn't,

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Speaker 4: you can follow up with them and make sure that

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Speaker 4: your ballot got to them or make arrangements. Right if

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Speaker 4: they didn't get it, make arrangements to make sure that

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Speaker 4: your voter is cast. I know a lot of people,

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Speaker 4: I mean, for our.

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Speaker 3: Community, I didn't even know about this.

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Speaker 4: I'm so voting is a community action. We like to

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Speaker 4: take collective action and demonstrate our political power. That's what

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Speaker 4: voting is for us. And so election day becomes really important.

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Speaker 4: It is a singular community action. And so I think

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Speaker 4: that's why a lot of people like to vote on

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Speaker 4: election day. That's important. But what we know is that

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Speaker 4: a few things. One is that your vote's gonna get

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Speaker 4: counted right, whether or not you do it on election

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Speaker 4: day or you do it during early vote, or you

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Speaker 4: do it by mail, and again we can track it.

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Speaker 4: The other is that we know on election day there's

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Speaker 4: a lot of challenges. In the States, there was a

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Speaker 4: lot of craziness at the ballot box, whether it was

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Speaker 4: you know, mysterious mysteriously you know, the charging cords for

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Speaker 4: voting machines disappearing in Georgia right whether it is you know, things.

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Speaker 3: Are happening right now as we speak.

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Speaker 2: I was just watching the news, like things are happening

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Speaker 2: to disrupt our vote right now.

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Speaker 4: Lines are long and you end up an hour or long.

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Speaker 4: So what we suggested people is avoid all of that.

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Speaker 4: If you can get your vote at early, avoid the lines.

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Speaker 4: We also know that there are proud boys showing up

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Speaker 4: and so for our community, it's it's not only important

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Speaker 4: we can if we have the option, but it's also

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Speaker 4: a safety issue, right like, let's get let's just cast.

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Speaker 2: Our votes, and let's go with our elders maybe and

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Speaker 2: maybe you accompany your elders and volts.

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Speaker 4: That's right to your first point. Getting a plan in

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Speaker 4: place is a good idea. Make sure register to vote,

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Speaker 4: make check your voting status, and then decide how you're

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Speaker 4: going to vote in person, by mail, absentee ballot. Decide

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Speaker 4: what you're going to do and stick to that plan,

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Speaker 4: and then you can track. Then you'll be able to

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Speaker 4: track your vale, your ballot but there's also, of course

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Speaker 4: all of the election protection folks that are out there

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Speaker 4: if you decide to go on election day, right, there's

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Speaker 4: a number of organizations that can help make sure that

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Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll really be out to this year, so.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, absolutely, I wanted to ask you some

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Speaker 2: questions to some basic questions too, about some concerns that

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Speaker 2: others may have when it comes to their loved ones

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Speaker 2: in different situations when it comes to voting.

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Speaker 3: I know these are some of my concerns as well.

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Speaker 2: If you can just give us a tip for these

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Speaker 2: different kinds of situations, like, for instance, do you have

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Speaker 2: now released. Is there something that they should know about voting?

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Speaker 4: So folks really need to check with their their boards

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Speaker 4: of the rules in their states because they are different.

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Speaker 4: And so whether it's you yourself you're returning citizen, or

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Speaker 4: you check what the rules are in your state, because

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Speaker 4: something they thought they had the right to do. And frankly,

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Speaker 4: let's just talk about why folks who do their time

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Speaker 4: So there's a you know, like there's we can think about,

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Speaker 4: you know, what we need in terms of in terms

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Speaker 4: of a federal law. Right, certainly we know that states.

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Speaker 2: You know, but I believe I live in a state

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Speaker 4: Now there's only a couple of states that just don't

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Speaker 4: allow it. But folks need to check the rules because

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Speaker 4: we don't we wouldn't. We don't want people getting in trouble.

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Speaker 4: But we also want people who have the rights who do.

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Speaker 3: Know that they and to know that they have the.

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Speaker 4: Right and to be able to cast their ballot.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you about another group of people who

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think there's there's two categories I think

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Speaker 4: So if you're sending your child away, your eighteen year

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Speaker 4: and they can should get themselves registered where they're going

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Speaker 4: can reregister if they want it, if they're already registered.

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Speaker 4: If you in California and you go to Spelman.

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Speaker 2: You better register in Georgia. You listen if.

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Speaker 4: You're reregister when you get to Atlanta asrier.

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Speaker 3: That's actually some good advice.

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Speaker 2: It's like you sent your kids to one of these

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Speaker 2: battle ground stays, you know, let them register battleground stage. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: another group's expats, can we talk about how soon they

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Speaker 2: should be looking into getting their paperwork together to make

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Speaker 2: sure Number one, I guess checking their registration and making

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Speaker 4: But then they need they need a voting plan, So

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Speaker 4: every everybody, all those categories that, yeah mention, all those

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Speaker 4: go again, and folks can go to be packed amocrasytoolkit

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned a couple of states because I

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Speaker 4: When we're thinking about what's really important. If you are

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Speaker 3: I think they're trying to get your boy out.

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Speaker 4: Ted Cruz. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Texas right, every all

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Speaker 4: Yep. So there is a lot of really important elections

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Speaker 4: the voting process is just longer, and so we don't

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Speaker 3: They are what they're doing. Yeah, thank you so much, Adrian.

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Speaker 4: on social media. I did my part. I get that. Plus,

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Speaker 2: You're making perfect since you're just changing my voting plan, Adrian,

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Speaker 2: that's all. You're making perfect sense.

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Speaker 4: I just you know, we tell people and take take

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Speaker 4: That's right, because we don't know how I got to

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Adrian Shropshire. I'm happy I pronounce

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