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(Almost) everything you wanted to know about politics (but were afraid to ask)
Tam, Miles and Mara answer questions about the midterms, the state of politics today, and more in this special episode recorded before a live virtual audience. This episode: senior political correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson. This podcast was produced and edited by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org. ...
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It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover politics. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Mara Liasen, senior national political correspondent. This is a special episode of the podcast because we're recording it with a virtual
audience. Now we're going to answer questions from our virtual audience here. We've also got questions that were sent in ahead of time. And let me just say that out of those pre-submitted questions, the topic that probably came up the most was election integrity, including vote by mail. So let's start there. It is convenient that Miles Parks is a co-host of this podcast and
also knows all the things. Dot wrote in asking, will I be able to vote by mail and have it counted? While Kathleen wondered, how worried should we be about mail-in voting? Miles, we got a ruling from the Supreme Court this week that helps answer those questions, right? Yes. I mean, the answer is voting by mail will look the same in 2026 as it did in 2024. That
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