Everything You Need to Know Before Voting on November 3rd

Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia joins us to break down exactly how your vote is counted and why Florida gets results by 7:30 PM while other states take weeks. She explains the full process — from new machines that photograph every ballot to signature verification, logic and accuracy testing, and why none of the counting machines are connected to the internet.

She also addresses fraud head on, sharing a story of poll workers who schemed together in another jurisdiction, why Miami-Dade flipped from a blue to a red county, and the 10,000 people who registered online on the last possible day. Plus 28 early voting sites where you can vote anywhere from October 19th through November 1st, how to update your signature, and why young people are registering but not showing up.

Go vote. November 3rd. votemiamidade.gov

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0:00 Intro
1:50 Voters Registration
3:09 Are More People Registering Independent?
3:53 Voting for Judges
4:46 Questions on the Ballot
6:21 Sample Ballot
7:05 Early Voting Sites
8:10 Checking Signatures
10:29 Ballots Fraud
13:17 Her Thoughts on the Voting Process in California
16:17 Why People Should Show Proof of Citizenship Before Voting
18:02 Are Young People Voting?
19:28 Do They Participate in Voting for Foreign Countries' Elections?
20:58 Can Police or ICE Be Present at Voting Sites?
22:30 Counting Live Voting Results
26:39 How Long Alina and Manny Have Known Each Other
27:59 Hiring Staff to Help with Elections
29:10 How Hard Is a Poll Worker’s Job
30:42 People Campaigning In Front of the Voting Sites
33:41 Who Comes Up with the Wording of the Questions on the Ballot
35:25 Traffic Cameras and Where Does the Money Go
36:24 Can You Use Your Phone When Voting?
37:26 Initiative to Get Young People to Vote
38:36 Recent Rise of Communist Politicians and Rhetoric
40:25 Why You Should Vote
41:38 Top 3 Restaurants
44:07 Go Vote
44:29 Outro