Election Day 2018 - What if We Made This Easier for People?

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On election day 2018, we took you all the way down to Australia where election day is a bit of a party. Everywhere we went, we heard Hemmen and Han, a lot of people were for sure gonna vote, someone on the fence are right unconvinced. We asked ourselves every election day what if we made this way easier for people? In keeping with what's now become a tradition, we're gonna revisit an episode we made way back in our first ever midterm election year.

Midterm elections are a tough sell in the United States. Half of eligible voters show up in a good year. On Election Day, we’re revisiting an episode about how things work down under, where “sausage sizzles” and “bathers” make mandatory voting feel like a party.

This episode was originally produced by Noam Hassenfeld and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. It was updated by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Efim Shapiro and Matt Collette. New reporting by Amanda Lewellyn, Miles Bryan, Laura Bullard, and Hady Mawajdeh.

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