Worried about voting this year? Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has tips

The course of the 2020 political season leading up to election day
has been inexorably altered as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to
render large, in-person gatherings a social taboo. Campaign
events have largely been cancelled. The Democratic and Republican
National Conventions were held virtually. As questions over the
safety of in-person voting loom large, Arizona Secretary of
State Katie Hobbs is preparing her office, which oversees
elections, for more mail-in voting this year than ever
before.  But President Donald Trump has made clear his
discomfort with mail-in voting. In April, he claimed that
it leads to widespread voter fraud.  "I''m not gonna say which
party does it, but thousands of votes are gathered and they come
and they’re dumped in locations and all the sudden you lose
elections that you think you’re gonna win," Trump said at a
White House press briefing. "I won’t stand for it."
exists, but that hasn’t appeased some of his supporters who
are growing concerned. Then in August, Trump made comments that
sparked backlash about withholding funding for the United State
Postal Service in order to prevent mail-in voting. Concern
over potential voter suppression arose after social media posts
went viral showing mailboxes being removed and mail sorting
machines at post offices being taken out of
circulation.   Will voting in the 2020 general
election be safe and secure? What do constituents need to do to
ensure that their ballot is counted? Those are the questions
tackled on this week's episode of The Gaggle, an Arizona politics
podcast from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Hosts Yvonne
Wingett Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen welcome special guest Hobbs to
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