No Time to Fail | Day in the Life of an Election Official
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
An election official opens the door to her life during the 2020 presidential election.
Kathy Placencia, the Administrator of Elections of Providence, Rhode Island, opens the door to the unbalanced life and work of an election official. Placencia and her many colleagues are dealing with the 2020 presidential election during the pandemic and must work through challenges they have never faced before including disinformation and the availability of mail-in ballots for all voters.
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No Time to Fail | Day in the Life of an Election Official
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Kathy Placencia, the Administrator of Elections of Providence, Rhode Island, opens the door to the unbalanced life and work of an election official. Placencia and her many colleagues are dealing with the 2020 presidential election during the pandemic and must work through challenges they have never faced before including disinformation and the availability of mail-in ballots for all voters.
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(chuckles) How was your day, baby?
- Good, good, good.
- First of all, do you have homework?
- No.
- You don't have any homework today, okay.
- Uh... - You're gonna set your timer and you're gonna read for 15 minutes.
- Yeah.
- Right?
And then... - No, it's ten minutes.
- Okay, you're gonna read for ten minutes, and then you do your homework.
- Yeah, I have no homework.
- I thought you told me you had homework.
- No!
- Come on.
- I don't want you to leave.
- I know, but I gotta go.
I have a very busy day.
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