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Hey everybody, it's Marielle.
I don't know if you've heard, but there's a big election coming up this fall.
We're gonna choose a new president, choose representatives.
You may be voting for a senator and for candidates and state, state and local races.
So this episode is a primer on voting.
I talked to NPR correspondent Miles parks about how to register and when, how to find out what voting methods are available in your state, and how to make sure you have the right id if id is required.
A couple things before we jump in.
One is that voting is not run by the federal government.
It's a state by state.
It's a county by county thing.
So when we're talking about how to do things, it's gonna be slightly different in all the different places across the country.
Also, one of my big picture takeaways from this conversation is this.