Join host of PBS’ Firing Line, Margaret Hoover, for a conversation with Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and GOP election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg about the sanctity and security of our elections — and a screening of the new one-hour Firing Line documentary, Counting the Vote.
Across the political spectrum, experts agree that the 2024 election is going to be incredibly close — so close that even the officials who count our votes have been thrust into the spotlight. But how does vote counting work? And why, in this election cycle, has it become so politicized? In Counting the Vote, Firing Line’s Margaret Hoover travels across the US to speak with former and current election officials from both parties — including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D), and GOP election attorney Ben Ginsberg — uncovering the disturbing efforts to use the vote-counting process to challenge election results. Following this special screening, hear Hoover, Benson and Ginsberg dispel myths about vote counting and explain how this bedrock principle of our democracy truly works.
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