Early voting has started for this year's presidential election.
And after 2020, when Donald Trump tried to overturn the results and slander election workers, officials are getting ready for new conspiracy theories.
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Voting has begun in the 2024 general election.
States are starting to send out absentee ballots, and early in person voting starts today in Virginia and Minnesota.
This is the first presidential election since Donald Trump's efforts in 2020 to overturn his defeat.
Part of that effort included demonizing election administrators and other acts.
And now election officials are supposed to do their jobs in a presidential race again.
NPR's Miles parks covers voting, and he joins us now from the swing state of Michigan.
Hey, Miles.
Hey, Lelo.