Al Schmidt: “In my experience, when you have competitive races, you have…”

“So maybe more or fewer people vote by mail or vote by vote in person counties. What I can say generally is that In my experience, when you have competitive races, you have higher turnout. When you have competitive races, you have campaigns spending money and knocking on doors and getting their voters out, which is our whole dynamic for how our republic is structured when it comes to elections.” (12:19–12:31)

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