
No Time to Fail | Mail-In Ballot Hate
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Rhode Island election official Rob Rock reads through the hate mail over mail-in voting.
Rob Rock, the Director of Elections under the Secretary of State in Rhode Island, reviews the responses his office has received over mail-in ballots; these voters are upset over the option to vote by mail and believe the process is, for example, a hoax. Rock remains unfazed by the comments and continues to do the work to ensure a fair election for all.
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No Time to Fail | Mail-In Ballot Hate
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 1m 6sVideo has Closed Captions
Rob Rock, the Director of Elections under the Secretary of State in Rhode Island, reviews the responses his office has received over mail-in ballots; these voters are upset over the option to vote by mail and believe the process is, for example, a hoax. Rock remains unfazed by the comments and continues to do the work to ensure a fair election for all.
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All right, okay.
Bye-bye.
People are passionate, man, I tell ya.
So these are mail ballot applications that have come back from voters, basically saying that they are not gonna be voting by mail.
Like this one here, you know, "No mail ballot, be American, go to the polls."
I'm not sure what being American has to do with going to the polls as opposed to voting by mail.
But, um- "I will vote at the polls, eat s * * *."
That's a good one.
That's a nice... And they have their names on them, too, which is pretty cool.
"I will crawl before I mail in my vote," which is an interesting image.
"The end is near."
Here's a good one, "The end is near, seek the truth while it may be found, it is written."
So the end is near, according to Mr. O'Neil from Cranston.
Not sure why people get so upset about the mail ballots, but the reason why we do this is that people can have those opinions.
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