No Time to Fail | Distrust: Voting by Mail vs. In-Person
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Providence election official Kathy Placencia checks on voters waiting to vote in-person.
Kathy Placencia, the Administrator of Elections in Providence, Rhode Island, inspects the line of residents waiting to vote in-person as well as the drop box for those voters who are using the mail-in ballot option. On election day, Placencia's responsibilities include setting up and overseeing the voting process at the polls.
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No Time to Fail | Distrust: Voting by Mail vs. In-Person
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Kathy Placencia, the Administrator of Elections in Providence, Rhode Island, inspects the line of residents waiting to vote in-person as well as the drop box for those voters who are using the mail-in ballot option. On election day, Placencia's responsibilities include setting up and overseeing the voting process at the polls.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Happy Emergency Voting Day, huh?
With a line out the door.
- Can't make it up, can't make it up.
- I... Oh, Jesus.
- All right.
I'm gonna look into this and I'll get back to you, Kathy.
- Okay, thank you.
- All right.
- All right, bye.
- Bye.
- Uh... (tutting) Oh, my goodness.
People were waiting outside in Cranston at 7:15.
They just hit 200 voters.
I don't... We're just not processing them fast enough.
I don't understand.
(people talking in background) I can take these.
- Oh, wow.
- Yep, I came here to empty this out.
- So they don't have to be in the other envelopes, right?
- No, nope, all right.
MAN: I have no patience, people.
- I'm sorry?
- Because I'm not happy with it at all.
- Okay.
- I want to physically vote.
I don't want none of this nonsense.
- Okay, that's your right.
- I've seen too much corruption in Rhode Island and in the United States.
I know what they're capable of.
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