In the Washington Post on how you will cast your ballot in november. If you are voting early, the number to call 202 7488000. If you are voting on election day, november 3, 202 7488001. If you are going to vote by mail, 202 7488002. And if you are not voting at all in the selection, 202 7488002 202 7488003. Join us on social media, on twitter cspanwj, facebook. Facebook span. Org showing thathere most americans want to vote before the november third election with a significant shift from previous years. About six out of 10 registered voters nationwide say they want to cast their ballots before election day. A significant shift that will force the candidates to reshape how they campaign in the final weeks of the election season. Fear of coronavirus and doubts about the reliability of mailin voting after months of attacks from President Trump weighing heavily on americans as they decide to safely how to safely make sure that their vote will be counted. Host House Homeland Security holding a session recently with two secretaries of state on the benefits and challenges of early voting. Here is that exchange. [video clip] conducted three elections this year with more citizens voting by mail than ever before and zero reports of evidence or fraud that says that the signature standard we have in place to make sure that signatures are matched on the envelope in which the ballot is sent to the signature we have on file ensures that we have a Security Check in place so that we can find and investigate irregularities if and when they occur. We have got a system in place to protect the process, but evidence shows primarily the people want to vote by mail with zero evidence of fraud or irregularity. Thank you very much. Secretary adams, in your tenure there, have you found much fraud in vote by mail or absentee ballot process . Pleased torman, im say that our election this year was clean. I did have some concerns about going from about 2 absentee balloting to what we ended up with, about 75 . We have put a lot of protocols in place to make sure that we didnt have voter fraud. We formed Interagency Task forces task force with federal agency partners. There are certain parts of our state that have more of a history of election shenanigans. We were very built very vigilant and had a clean election. So, as far as you are concerned, the local officials you talked about, if left to their own devices, they will probably design a system to the extent practical that is fraud free . I will say this, i have confidence in all the all of my colleagues in this position. Some have different models. I like what we have better than what we i like what we have better than what they have, but they are all people with integrity and i think that local control and state control is best, enabling us to design a system that meets our specific needs. With respect to fraud, we have some really tight protocols here. That the requires voter apply for the ballot, we run it through the database to make sure the information is correct, we track the ballots and the barcodes. These are best practices we have seen in other states. Beingclear, all things equal, voting in person is the gold standard, but these are unique times we must acclimate to. The full hearing from the House Homeland Security commission is available on our website, cspan. Org. Lizzie in this tweet. Ost send us a tweet, cspanwj the hill. Com with questions on early voting and duplicate voting. Voting twice in an election is illegal under federal law and voters who cast votes more than once in an election will be fined not more than 10,000 and imprisoned not more than five years for both. State penalties very across the country according to a database of National Conference and state late legislatures. Joining us by phone, part of the Community Civil engagement. Good morning, thank you for being with us. Pleasure to be here. Stood out in the survey and walk us through your methodology. Guest so many things were great to learn in this survey. As you said at the top of the show, a large portion of people are interested in voting before the election. The pandemic has really accelerated this. People are nervous about voting in person. Noted from the viewers, they are concerned about having their political views out there. And many people want a sense of control. They want to know that they participated and felt confident in the way that they decided to , that it will be accurate and that their vote will be counted. Weve partnered on this survey with it sos, which has the knowledge panel. One of the largest standing online probability panels. We surveyed from their excellent example and conducted the poll in late august. Host you have to wonder, and we dont know the answer yet, if this is a turning point in terms of how americans cast their ballot, whether for president , mayor, governor, or members of congress. Guest thats exactly right. Results this year are telling, however. We have seen absentee voting increase as states relax the restrictions on those methods. But some people are just hesitant to see something different. This year a lot more people will get experience and i think that with the experience they will make their decisions about what they want to do in the future. Hopefully however they decide to vote is a positive experience, but we do know that some people are going to have trouble and it will influence how they behave. Is an obvious question, but what is the biggest advantage of early voting and what are the biggest pitfalls . From an individual perspective, if any problems arise, you have time to correct them. If you have identification from a state and there an early voting center, you can go back and fix it that day or leading up to election day. Campaigns perspective, they also like people to vote early because they can then cross off people they expected to vote and focus their efforts on those who havent voted yet. Pitfalls,the biggest i think that finding the Early Voting Centers in some places can be difficult. Regarding voting by mail over absentee voting, the rules are sometimes difficult to figure out. People might need more time to ask questions of Election Officials and make sure that they have their signatures in the right spot. Some places still require notaries, another hassle for people to go through. Its figuring out the details to make sure they get it right. And then if they put the mailin in a post office box, thinking about processing and how long thats going to take. You could address this big argument we hear from the president , the states that mail out there ballots versus those who send in a request to receive absentee ballots. Guest sure. There are important differences, you know, in people that study this. They worry about the details. I dont want to say that these processes are exactly the same. But in terms of security, in terms of the potential for fraud or the evidence of it, there are not really any differences. People in states that our mailing out the ballots should feel confident that they have a list of they have paid attention to, that they care about, that has accuracy. As you mentioned earlier in the , Election Officials are hardworking people who are understaffed and under resourced. Their job really is, democrat or republican, to have a clean and fair election. They deserve a lot of our trust. Model, is there a state from your perspective that is doing it right . Guest there are a number of examples and much of it comes with the experience of the biggest concern this years we are going to see a much larger value volume in the balloting process. Oregon didnt just jump into their system, they did it gradually. The same with the other states. They learned how to do it right. They learned what worked and what didnt. I think one of the great advantages that we have is you see a lot of connections and good networking between state and local Election Officials and im confident that those lessons are being shared. Experience is important and we are going to see that in places that havent dealt with the volume of mail, some struggles. Headline, sixhis out of 10 voters refer to cast their ballot before election day. Whats the other headline in the survey . What else stood out in your mind in your mind . Guest the comfort of people voting in person. There is still a lot of concern about the process that might be in place. I think some of this comes down to information. We have started to see more people come out with information, people that run elections and discuss potential safety concerns. Blunders in the primary season but they have had a lot of time to work on this to figure out how to set up polling places so that people can feel safe, poll workers and the voters themselves. Is the polll hanmer director for the Civic Engagement organization. Thank you for being with us. Guest thank you, take care. Host this is a tweet from rishaad host one other point from the Washington Post, the poll finds a sharp increase in the percentage of voters that prefer to use absentee ballot. 32 want to send it through the mail, 17 want to take it to an Election Office or place it in a dropbox, nearly double the 26 of 2016 voters in the survey suggesting that a smaller proportion of the electorate will vote by mail in the general election then in some of the spring primaries, where a number of states saw the majority of voters turning to mailing votes for the first time in history. In wisconsin the april 7 primary , 62 of voters cast their fromts by mail, gearing up for an influx of mailin voting with huge turnouts in the weeks leaning up to november the third. You can get more details at Washington Post. Com. Charles, good to hear from you on the line, voting early. Caller good morning. Good to talk to you. Its been a while. I am voting early. I might as well get this out of the way and prepare yourself, through regulations on your selection to be a debate matter out of moderator. I cannot imagine a more fair and impartial moderator. Dont let them take you away dont let them take us away take you away from us on sunday mornings. Host in your comment on voting early . Guest caller i will vote early. I always vote. Im concerned as much about the down ballot as i am president. We have some interesting races here in South Carolina. Givingrison is really Lindsey Graham a scare i think. Joe cunningham, or first Congressional District representative is being challenged by the first female graduate of the citadel. Joe got a lot of republican support last time because of his stance on offshore drilling. That aside, i told the screener that i was going to vote early and for fun, i would never do anything illegal, but on election day i am going to go to the polls to see if my name is there where i can vote again, and if it is, im going to say folks, you got me here. And i wouldnt do it, i knew they would catch me after the fact, but i want to see if the system is working right. Host i dont think you are alone. We have heard that from other collars in recent days. And as far as mailin voting, i can tell you this, my mail service isnt the best in the world. I get misdirected mail quite often. As other people have voiced concerns, i would not have a sign, a Campaign Sign in my yard if i was going to mail in my vote. Its kind of scary to me. Anday all be aboveboard work fine, but again, i can vote early so im going to do it that way. We are keeping and i on the South Carolina senate race and before election day cspan is your source for many of these to date. We will be carrying it live and we will schedule it as available at cspan. Org. A text message from mike in orlando saying host the next is ken, aurora. Again, congratulations to you for being a moderator on an upcoming debate. Yes, im going to vote early, by mail. I have no qualms about that whatsoever. Process todifficult monitor and make sure that the process is followed and that it, you know, is done according to hoyle. Thats not a major concern. Im actually kind of disappointed in this question that you had yesterday about whether you would accept a , that was much more on target in my opinion. Also i would like to point out to mr. Slap upcoming that he know, be, you disappointed in himself and other leaders of the republican , since it is the head of his party that is causing all the consternation, at least 90 of it as far as questioning the , which has a very low probability of any kind of, any skulduggery as far as, or thew, double voting dead voting or anything like that. And his ilk should, you know, tone that, ask respectfully the president to tone that kind of rhetoric down. Host we will leave it there, thank you for the call. Park storm has this of the newpage york times, the situation out west, colorado, has entire theunities devastated by wildfires that continue in oregon, Washington State, and california. Front page of the Washington Post, fires continue their relentless march. Earl, good morning to you. Earl. yes, my name is i understand that in california i wont have the choice to vote in person. We are all going to be voting by mail. Decide who im going to vote for in the last three days before the election. Im very concerned about this volume of voting. If they dont start counting the , we early, we may not get a may not get a, a decision anytime the day of the election. Tom, next. Ll go to voting on election day, calling from one of the most important battleground states in the selection. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I think it is the duty of every , to report vote anything that they suspect is happening with voter fraud in relation to the mailin voting. Im very concerned about this. Thee have been people on record who have said they have actually trained people in how to do voter fraud. So, it may seem like a small thing to you, but it may be just the tip of the iceberg. What we should look for is anybody that wants to help you fill out a ballot, thats an indication of voter fraud. Anybody that offers to mail the , that is anr you indication that voter fraud may be going on. If it is republican or democrat, i dont care, but every american should be on the lookout for indications of voter fraud. Now heres my problem. Why is it that only one party wants mailin ballot and . Have the sameans problems a democrat might have . We will leave it there. On the issue of voter fraud, another congressional hearing that we have covered from the House Administration, heres an excerpt. [video clip] we have had drop boxes since we moved to vote by mail 10 years ago. We had 10, we now have 70, meaning 96 of our voters have a dropbox within three miles of their homes. We have seen studies from the university of washington the proximity to a dropbox increases turn out. Drop boxes are important. ,ts an Important Service especially before we had prepaid postage, but now voters have both options. These are manufactured by companies called vote armor. More than half of the voters use the drop boxes and they come in really handy for voters that really want to wait until election day but are more of procrastinators. Election day and the day before, 50 of voters turn out to those drop boxes. They are securely designed thousand pound boxes. Steven green with this tweet host matt is joining us from bath, new york. You are waiting until november 3 to vote . Caller thats right, steve congratulations again it be nice to see someone would that dont have an agenda asking questions. Hello . Host we are right here. Thank you. And your point on early voting . Caller yeah. To me, im seeing people, the pandemic and all that, mostly everybody is going out, doing their normal thing, shopping and all this and that. So i just dont understand the whole thing. , imne thing i object to all for absentees, all for applying for a ballot. But the mass mailing thing . I can see problems arising from that. Work at 5 30 in the morning, so i have missed a lot of the shows, but the whole thing were they dont have confidence in the mailing system and say the postmaster is trying to sabotage it . Its ridiculous. My former neighbor is a mailman. During the obama years they eliminated 14,000 mailboxes. But you dont hear a darn thing about that and you really dont hear about the fact that people are paying bills online and doing all that. Thishey dont need all of machinery that they use to use. Host that did come up in a congressional hearing that we carry live with the postmaster general, an issue between congress and the u. S. Post office. Just fyi. Caller and as far as him personally, the people in the post office are upset because the dems are for trying them as incompetent and its kind of ridiculous, how they are using the post office as a political football, claiming that theres going to be this and that. Sad, its sads whats happened in this country. It really is. Congrats again, my friend. Host thank you, matt. The president is on the campaign trail in nevada and arizona. Sun,rom the las vegas here are the details a western swing, the president looking to expand his his to victory as part of ongoing crusade against mailin voting. Host more from the president s rally, yesterday. We carried it live. Heres a part of what he told the gathering. [video clip] here we are, the governor tried to stop us, think of this, hes in control of millions of votes. Heres a guy calling venues telling them not to have the rally. Calling different vat venues, dont have the rally, we wont let you have the rally. Hes calling, this governor, who is a political hack who became governor. This is the guy that we are in with millions of ballots . Unsolicited ballots . Millions and millions. And then we are supposed to win. We have a guy that would do that where he wont let us havent we called it a protest and therefore we can do it, but you want to know something . Its a disgrace. Who the hell is going to trust they say trust, trust government. A guy thatou trust fought that we arent here, that we cant have all these thousands of people. Boy, you are really back far. Now hes iny, charge of, hes in charge of the election. And the millions of ballots. So, like millions of votes, he can rig the election, he can rig the election. I will tell you what, whether it itin north carolina, whether is in michigan, whether it is in other states where they send out they are going to be sending out, t