Award-winning journalist, activist, poll worker, and former attorney Anjali Enjeti discusses her new book, Ballot, which considers the real and metaphorical role that ballots play in our democracy. Co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley (in her first episode joining the co-host rotation) talk to Enjeti about her childhood encounters with ballots, the history of ballots in America, and the problems she encountered with Republican-installed Dominion voting machines in Fulton County, Georgia, where she was an election worker during the 2020 presidential race. She debunks the false claims of election fraud in Fulton County during that election and discusses the Trump Administration’s recent seizure of 700 boxes of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, what those ballots represent, and whether or not the administration might try to alter them. She reads from Ballot.

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• FBI raid in Georgia has little legal basis – but serves Trump’s goal to weaken trust in election results | The Guardian
• FBI’s Search of Fulton County, Georgia, Election Center Is Unprecedented, Experts Say | ProPublica
• Trump is trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted | The Washington Post
• Move to Seize Ballots Thrusts F.B.I. Into Trump’s Election Conspiracy Claim | The New York Times
• Trump’s Mug Shot Is Released After Booking at Fulton County Jail | The New York Times
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

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