No Time to Fail | Preventing Voter Fraud
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Election officials reassure that elections are legitimate and fair by preventing fraud.
Ahead of election day, Rhode Island's election officials work within the system to prevent voter fraud; checking signatures on official forms is only one of many methods of prevention. They are also available to answer any questions to help reassure the public that votes are legitimate and that elections are fair.
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No Time to Fail | Preventing Voter Fraud
Clip: Season 11 Episode 7 | 42sVideo has Closed Captions
Ahead of election day, Rhode Island's election officials work within the system to prevent voter fraud; checking signatures on official forms is only one of many methods of prevention. They are also available to answer any questions to help reassure the public that votes are legitimate and that elections are fair.
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What kind of security?
Well, nobody's gonna steal your mom's ballot.
LIMA: Yeah, we're gonna have a drop box out front.
It's gonna be open 24 hours.
MAN (on phone): Okay, thank you.
- Have a great day.
MAN: You, too.
- Bye-bye.
(replaces receiver) I can already see one problem here.
This person didn't sign the application.
So that's gonna be a rejection.
Most of them are pretty straightforward.
That one's not a match.
I see the T and I see a little bit of the G, but I gotta look that one up.
EMERSON BRITO: We do.
Security cameras.
It's pretty safe.
Well, no one's gonna steal your ballot on the box.
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