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.@VotebeatUS Editorial Director, managing investigations. Formerly @ProPublica. Teaching: @StBonaventure, @AU_SPA. You need a corndog, I can tell. Texan.

Sep 18, 2020, 5 tweets

If you are a journalist, please do not write “there were lines as far as the eye can see” when the wait is 20 minutes long. Studies show that voters will stand in line without being all that bothered by it for half an hour. Don’t make people afraid to go out and vote.

I have been in drive-through lines that took longer than 20 minutes

I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but hey maybe I do: We are in a pandemic so the lines look longer than they are because people have to stand 6 feet apart.

This is fine! This is GOOD.

Congratulations America! It is Election Day. people are already casting ballots, as we speak.

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