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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up with Angela Yee and my guy Tim

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Speaker 2: Hunter is back from NYC Votes.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Thank you so much for having me. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad you're here because we are getting ready for some.

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Speaker 2: Major elections here in New York City. So what I

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Speaker 2: want you to do first and foremost is talk about

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Speaker 2: NYC Votes. And I know you've been here before, but

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Speaker 2: in case people did not catch that, talk about the

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Speaker 2: work that.

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Speaker 1: You do well.

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Speaker 3: NYC Votes is a nonpartisan, independent voter initial voter engagement

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Speaker 3: initiative of the Campaign Finance Board. It's our job to

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Speaker 3: make sure that New Yorkers have all the resources and

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Speaker 3: tools that they need to actively participate in our democracy.

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Speaker 3: We know that, of course, this election is very highly anticipated.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people turned out for the June A

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Speaker 3: lot of people turned out for the June election, and

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Speaker 3: we want to make sure that we see similar results

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Speaker 3: in November, especially as you know, there's a number of

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Speaker 3: questions that we're going to be dealing with, obviously, who

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Speaker 3: our next mayor is going to be, who maybe your

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Speaker 3: next local council member is going to be, and even

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Speaker 3: some bout proposals, and we'll get into all that today.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm watching all that, and like you said,

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Speaker 2: your work is strictly to make sure that people are

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Speaker 2: registered on time, know those deadlines, know what's on the ballot,

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Speaker 2: and vote.

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Speaker 1: You're not telling people who to vote for in any way.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, we are not telling you who to vote for.

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Speaker 3: We're not telling you which value proposals to vote for.

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Speaker 3: We just want to make sure that you have those

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Speaker 3: resources and our website is a great tool to get

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Speaker 3: access to figure out what's going to be on the

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Speaker 3: ballot and who you can potentially vote for through our

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Speaker 3: voter guide. And also if you have any other questions

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Speaker 3: any of our voter engagement initiatives that are happening all

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Speaker 3: across the city up until election.

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Speaker 1: Day, how can you participate?

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Speaker 2: I was on the site of course, So there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of deadlines that people also need to know about.

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Speaker 1: For instance, I moved last year, change of address October

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Speaker 1: twentieth October, look at you know, to write it down.

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Speaker 2: Also, early voting that's important too, because you don't want

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Speaker 2: to wait if you don't have to till the day

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Speaker 2: of just because anything can happen. So if you have

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Speaker 2: the ability to get out and vote early, that's always

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Speaker 1: What are those days, So we want to make sure that.

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Speaker 3: Of course, as New Yorkers like are figuring out who

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Speaker 3: as you kind of highlighted. So November fourth is election day,

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Speaker 3: so that is the last day for you to vote.

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Speaker 3: You can also postmark your ballot this last day of

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Speaker 3: postmark your ballot if you're voting by mail or voting

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Speaker 3: through absentee ballot. And then early voting, which is my

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Speaker 3: so you know it's good to get out and vote

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Speaker 3: early to avoid that. You have from October twenty fifth,

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Speaker 2: Perfect that's plenty of time, yes, And so we want

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Speaker 3: That October twenty fifth, so the same day as early voting,

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Speaker 3: So you want to make sure if you're not registered.

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Speaker 3: If you're listening, if you can hear my voice right now,

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Speaker 3: please get registered as soon as possible, don't wait.

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Speaker 1: And it's so easy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes five minutes if you have your state

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Speaker 3: ID and you can just go on our website and

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Speaker 3: YC votes dot org. We have all the information that

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Speaker 3: you need there. I've seen people do it in less

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Speaker 2: And what's on the ballot, because that's also on the website,

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Speaker 2: so people can understand it's not just voting for the mayor.

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Speaker 3: It's not. There's so many other important races and also

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Speaker 3: challenge this November. You also have borough presidents or our

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Speaker 3: addition to other citywide offices such as city comptroller, and

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Speaker 3: important for you to make sure that you weigh in

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Speaker 3: on because you don't want someone making that decision for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, listen, so important because I happen to know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, affordable housing has been a big topic. A

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Speaker 2: You know, I've just hired an assistant for the first

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Speaker 2: And so one of the main things that has been

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Speaker 2: course housing has been such a major concern. Now you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, before not anymore. I got to give a new phrase,

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Speaker 2: But I was saying before we started this, you know,

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Speaker 2: like we said, the neighborhoods are gentrifying. But with that

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Speaker 2: this black associate association media that we're having is important

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Speaker 2: same thing with these elections, right, you cannot complain about

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Speaker 2: you didn't even participate, you have a major voice heard.

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Speaker 2: You know, these are people that work for us. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: and so these are public servants, and so we do

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Speaker 1: We just have to utilize that.

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Speaker 3: I completely agree. And one thing, you know, that's why

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Speaker 3: I love coming here, Angelaue. I feel like you are

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Speaker 3: the embodiment of civic engagement. You want people to know

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Speaker 3: I think is important and I hope that anyone else

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Speaker 3: That means that the elections are being determined by a

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Speaker 3: there's so many other ways that you can engage with

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Speaker 2: Right, you can actually help a candidate that you really

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Speaker 2: like who's running for office. And listen, these debates are

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Speaker 2: when you come up here, like I appreciate it a lot.

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Speaker 1: But make sure you do go to NYC votes because

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Speaker 1: that's how you can know.

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Speaker 2: When you go and vote, you can know everything that

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Speaker 1: So when you go as.

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Speaker 2: Easy breezy, yeah right, because you don't want to be

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Speaker 2: should definitely make sure that you're paying attention. And the

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Speaker 2: debates honestly are very entertaining to watch. I want to

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Speaker 2: think as a collective, we should be having these conversations together.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's thought provoking and you never know, you

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Speaker 1: It's true, It's true.

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Speaker 3: I think that you know, in addition to the debates,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's also important to make a plan, you know,

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Speaker 3: like I think watching the debates a great start. Looking

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Speaker 3: at the voter guide that we're going to mail to

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Speaker 3: millions of New Yorkers this year, so you can see,

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Speaker 3: you know, what's going to be in the Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: a nice little booklet.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit hefty, but.

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Speaker 3: It's important, and you know, so thumb through it to see

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Speaker 3: are going to be ballot proposals that New Yorkers are

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Speaker 3: It's an upstate it's an upstate New York and it

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Speaker 3: But that's just one of them. The other five have

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Speaker 2: And so if we're voting when it's a presidential election

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Speaker 2: You know, Tim, I'm glad you're bringing all this up

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Speaker 3: And these bowel proposals are you know, they can be

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Speaker 1: But I'm encouraging you all do some more.

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Speaker 2: All right, perfect, And I want to stress I was

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Speaker 1: And like I said, this matter is too much.

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Speaker 2: Now, what would you say to New Yorkers who maybe

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Speaker 2: Some of this is your money, by the way, guys,

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Speaker 1: Taxpayer dollars. These are technic the tax Now this money

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Speaker 3: You pay their salaries and you're paying for their policy

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Speaker 3: And you know a lot of people say I only

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Speaker 2: All right, you heard it here? First voting is sexy, Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: All right, Tim.

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Speaker 2: What's the website for people who are listening so they

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Speaker 3: Well. NYC Votes Dot Org. You can look, you can

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Speaker 3: It's important, but it can be fun. You can do

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Speaker 1: The food is also amazing, yes.

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Speaker 2: And the drinks all right, well, thank you so much again,

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Speaker 2: Tim Hunter. NYC Votes and you'll be back right before.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to talk debates. We got to pushing this.

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Speaker 2: All we want you to do is register to vote

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