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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: Its way up with Angela Yee and Tim Hunter. You're

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Speaker 2: back again, Yes, back again, because you know what, it's

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Speaker 2: going to be an amazing time tonight. We're actually having

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Speaker 2: this mayoral debate watch party at my coffee shop, Coffee

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Speaker 2: uplifts people. And this is just to get people to

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Speaker 2: watch the debates because we're getting ready for voting. Early

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Speaker 2: voting starts October twenty fifth and November tewod and election

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Speaker 2: day is November fourth.

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Speaker 1: That's your last time that you can possibly vote.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's correct in this election.

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Speaker 2: All right, there's so many things that we need to

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Speaker 2: talk about. And I got my NYC Votes voter guide.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, let's see.

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Speaker 1: Let's see.

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Speaker 3: We got the voter guy right here.

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Speaker 1: It comes to my house. Lets me know where I'm voting.

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Speaker 2: Also, because it is important to know where is where

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Speaker 2: are you heading to for your ballot?

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Speaker 1: You can also vote by mail.

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Speaker 2: This says October twenty fifth is a deadline to request

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Speaker 2: your mail ballot online.

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Speaker 3: Yep, you can question it online. You got to make

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Speaker 3: sure it's postmarked by election day.

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Speaker 1: Where are you you voting?

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Speaker 3: To him? I vote early, I go on the first day. However,

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Speaker 3: you know if you wait till October thirty first, you

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Speaker 3: might be able to get a nice little Halloween sticker

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Speaker 3: if you go early on Halloween this year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, spoiler alert and looks.

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Speaker 2: And speaking of getting things, anybody who comes to uss

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Speaker 2: the debate, New York Magazine is also going to be

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Speaker 2: having fun with us tonight too, and they're going to

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Speaker 2: give away what I think like a three month subscription

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Speaker 2: to people who come to cut some of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, some people are going to end up getting those,

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Speaker 1: So that's exciting.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's good. You know, we love Mirik mag and

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Speaker 3: thank you so much to them for partnering. But we also,

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Speaker 3: you know, are thankful that you're letting us, you know,

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Speaker 3: use your coffee shop for civic engagement. It's going to

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about what is on the ballot, because

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Speaker 2: I always tell people make sure that if you don't

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Speaker 2: have this amazing voter guide that I have, you can

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Speaker 2: still go online.

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Speaker 1: And get it right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the voter guide is available online at NYC votes

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Speaker 3: dot org and it's available in thirteen languages other than English.

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Speaker 1: I got three of them.

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Speaker 2: I got Spanish, I got Chinese. Cento my house yeah,

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Speaker 2: my last names. Ye, they just sent the Chinese one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. We look at the voter rolls and

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Speaker 3: we also look at the demographic makeup of your area.

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Speaker 3: doing everything we can to eliminate the barriers, especially language barriers,

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Speaker 3: to our democracy because we believe that your vote is

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Speaker 2: Well, mister Tim Hunter, first let's talk about steps that

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Speaker 2: you have to take. First and foremost, make sure you're

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Speaker 2: registered to vote. Yes, And now let's say you're not registered.

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Speaker 2: Did we miss that deadline?

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Speaker 3: No we did not. You have till Saturday, October twenty fifth,

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Speaker 3: you for watching. But make sure you get registered to vote.

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Speaker 3: Very very important to be registered before you vote in

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Speaker 1: And we can also check and see and make sure

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if they go to vote dot NYC, you can

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Speaker 3: check the Board of Elections website. You can check your registration.

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Speaker 3: We did miss the address change deadline, so if you

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Speaker 1: All right, so you have to be at least eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Years old, you have to be a US citizen, and

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Speaker 3: Yes, and they say like if you're in line, stay

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Speaker 1: All right, get information. You heard it now. There's a

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Speaker 1: practice ballot here as well.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So I always find this to be particularly helpful

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Speaker 2: So you can see specifically for wherever you live, right,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can cut it out, right, you can

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just walk in there with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. You just can't bring in any like information like

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Speaker 2: Now, besides the mayor, because we're going to be watching

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Speaker 2: these mayoral debates. This is the last debate, by the way,

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Speaker 2: and I want to say the one before this was intense.

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Speaker 3: It was intense. I mean all these debates, someone say spicy.

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Speaker 2: So this this one that we're going to be watching tonight, right,

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Speaker 3: going to be Curtis Liwa, Zoron Mamdani, and Andrew Cuomo.

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Speaker 1: And that's why donations matter.

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Speaker 2: As people are asking about donating, if you like a candidate,

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Speaker 2: it does matter if you can, even if it's a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I would also add that, especially here in

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Speaker 2: So is this what Eric Adams was saying he was

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Speaker 2: Now, who are we going to see on when you

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Speaker 1: Ever happened not to knowledge, like I wasn't even running.

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Speaker 1: I've heard people say that you can also write somebody in.

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Speaker 1: Is that true?

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can write in. There's almost every election that

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Speaker 3: we have you're able to write in candidates. I think

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Speaker 3: the only place where you're not allowed to write in

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Speaker 1: So you can go and leave things blank.

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Speaker 3: New Yorkers are aware of the rights that they have

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Speaker 3: because a lot of people sometimes say I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to vote because nothing matters, This doesn't matter. But it

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Speaker 3: does matter, especially when it comes to these local elections

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Speaker 3: because that's when we usually have the least amount of turnout.

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Speaker 3: So hopefully we can change that this year.

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Speaker 2: If he says he's not voting, don't date them, girl,

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Speaker 2: that's my advice. That's a red flag.

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Speaker 1: But yes, And the debate started at seven pm.

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Speaker 3: Yep, they start at seven, seven to nine. It's gonna

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Speaker 3: be like two hours, so you know, buckle in, grab

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Speaker 3: your popcorn or if you're at cup, you know, grab

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Speaker 3: your drink and grabs you know, some snacks and you know,

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Speaker 3: or maybe one of those New York magazine cookies and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, enjoy, let's have fun,