Sarah Smith
speaker
3,811 appearances
45 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The trial of Lindsay Clancy, who has admitted to killing her three children.
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Welcome to America Answers.
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Yes.
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So this is quite complicated.
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And the first thing to say is MD is absolutely right about voting in America.
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Every polling day that I've been here covering elections, I've gone out and seen really, really long queues of people, sometimes in inclemently hot weather, it has to be said, down in the south, standing for literally hours in queues waiting to cast their ballot.
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And that's treated as absolutely...
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normal.
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People just assume you've got to write off half the day in order to go and cast your vote.
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And they seem to be prepared to put up with it.
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So they answered to the question whether or not any provisions being made to make it easier to vote in person.
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No, not as far as I can see.
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But there is a huge controversy about the mail-in ballots, as they're known here, the postal votes.
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Donald Trump tried to change the rules, essentially.
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And he said that all states who are in charge of their own elections had to up
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upload a list of voter names to a post office website, which isn't finished yet and isn't ready.
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And they would have to upload these names several times a day up to as they were keeping up to date with the voter rolls.
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And they would have to design special envelopes with unique barcodes on them to send out the ballots.
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Now, a lot of the individual states say it's simply not possible to do all of that between now and polling day, which is only 60 days away now.
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A couple of states have already started mailing out their ballots anyway, including North Carolina.
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